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Answer
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A
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This Comedy duo made their film debut in "One Night in the Tropics."
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Abbott and Costello
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B
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Iconic song by the Andrew Sisters about a street musician drafted into the army. Actually released a year before Pearl Harbor.
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
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C
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Oscar winning classic from 1942 based on the unproduced play "Everyone Comes To Rick's."
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Casablanca
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D
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U.S. city dubbed "The Arsenal of Democracy."
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Detroit
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E
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Nazi Lieutenant Colonel who helped orchestrate the removal of Jews from their Ghettos to Concentration Camps. He would latter be tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Israel in 1962.
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Adolf Eichmann
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F
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Walt Disney and RCA developed a stereophonic sound system for this feature film.
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Fantasia
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G
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In 1948 this emcee's "Talent Scouts" began airing simutaniously on both radio and television.
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Arthur Godfrey
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H
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Nationwide, orange roofed restaurant chain that went from having over 200 locations in 1941, down to twelve in 1944 and then began building another 200 when turnpikes were built in Ohio, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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Howard Johnson's
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I
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Cleveland sports team that won their sports world championship in 1948 (to date they haven't won another).
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Indians
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J
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Made his debut in Batman #1.
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The Joker
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K
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In 1946 Umberto II became Italy's last one of these.
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King
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M
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In 1949 his play "Death of a Salesman" opened on Broadway, today considered by many to the greatest American play yet written.
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Arthur Miller
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N
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Island off the east coast of Canada that, along with mainland neighbor Labrador, became a Canadian province in 1949.
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Newfoundland
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O
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Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II teamed up for the first time and revolutionized musical theater when this musical opened on Broadway.
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Oklahoma!
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P
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Communist state formed in 1949 following the Chinese Civil War.
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The People's Republic of China
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Q
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English hospital in West Sussex that became world renowned for it's treatment of RAF burn victims.
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Queen Victoria Hospital
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R
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Italian filmmaker who's "Rome, Open City" is generally sighted as the first Italian Neo-Realist film.
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Roberto Rossellini
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S
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This gossip columnist began hosting a variety show on CBS called "Toast of the Town" in 1948 (the show was officially renamed after him in 1955).
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Ed Sullivan
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T
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In 1944 this world renouned conductor resumed his duty as full time musical director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Arturo Toscanini
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U
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Japan formally surrendered to the U.S. on the deck of this battleship.
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U.S.S. Missouri
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V
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Eleven day battle in which Soviet Forces took control of Austria.
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Vienna Offensive
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W
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At twenty-five years old he co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in "Citizen Kane," considered by many to be the greatest film ever made.
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Orson Welles
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X
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Lionel Hampton played an intrument called a vita_____, which is very similar to this percussion instrument.
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Xylophone
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Y
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Name given for the summit held in the Soviet Union and attended by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
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Yalta Conference
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Z
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1945 MGM musical based on a famous Broadway revue. The only time Fred Astair and Gene Kelly danced together.
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Ziegfeld Follies
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