40th REUNION
AWHS CLASS OF 1962
Trivia Question
~Freshman Year~

In September 1958, a parochial school educated young man is fighting against the corrupt Juan Batista. His name is
1. Che Guevara
2. Fidel Castro
3. Juan Peron
It is really small, ran on batteries and gets FM. (Not that anyone was listening to other than AM.) It was the first transistor radio introduced by
1. Motorola
2. Sony
3. Philco
This fall, what will become Ralph Nader’s favorite car is introduced. It is really cute with an engine in the rear. It is not Mr. O’Brien’s vintage Volkswagen Bug It is a:
1. Lark
2. Falcon
3. Corvair
The Army has a new recruit in 1958. It is
1. Elvis Aaron Presley
2. Cassius Clay
3. Wilt Chamberlain
Want to go to Harvard when you graduate? Tuition this fall costs:
1. $1250
2. $2800
3. $3800
In January 1959, a new state is voted into the union. It is
1. Alaska
2. Hawaii
3. Puerto Rico
Name Bobby Darin’s 1959 Grammy Award winning 45:
1. Splish Splash
2. Mack the Knife
3. Come Dance with Me
What pro football team beats the New York Giants for the NFL Championship for first time in 1958, only to repeat the achievement in 1959?
1. The Cleveland Browns
2. The Baltimore Colts
3. The Green Bay Packers
One Pope dies, another is named amid white puffs of smoke from the Sistine Chapel. The Pope who dies is
1. Pope Pius X
2. Pope Pius XI
3. Pope Pius XII
Name two original members of the fledgling AFL founded in 1959:
1. Boston Patriots
2. Miami Dolphins
3. Kansas City Chiefs
4. Oakland Raiders
The newest trend in lipstick is:
1. Revlon’s Fire & Ice
2. Tangee’s Tangerine
3. Any brand as long as it is white
 Veep Richard Nixon has a heated discussion with Nikita Khrushchev at a Los Angeles trade show in what will be nicknamed;
1. The Checkers speech
2. The kitchen debate
3. The Watergate
A new business-use computer language is developed. It complements FORTRAN which was introduced in 1956 as the first programming language. The new language is:
1. COBOL
2. BASIC
3. VisiCalc
 If you were able to stay up late enough, you could watch the Tonight Show and Jose Melis’s orchestra with:
1. Steve Allen
2. Jack Parr
3. Johnny Carson
This is scary. ‘Twixt Twelve and Twenty’ by this thoroughly wholesome singer was a best-selling non-fiction book both in1958 and1959. It was written by
1. Patty Page
2. Pat Boone
3. Connie Stevens