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

You are looking to lose a little weight. Starting this year you can try a can of:
1. Tab with Cyclamates
2. Metrical
3. SlimFast
Folk music goes pop as The Kingston Trio scores a big 1959 hit with:
1. Charlie & the MTA
2. Scotch & Soda
3. Tom Dooley
(Coffeehouses like Club Passim in Cambridge pack them in. Joan Baez takes note and picks up guitar)
Most destructive hurricane in U.S. to date hits entire East Coast during September 4-12. Kenburma section of Hull is predictably flooded. What is the name of this gal? (They were all female names then, remember?)
1. Carol
2. Hazel
3. Donna
Boston Celtics Defeat St. Louis Hawks for NBA Championship. How many years have the Celtics won this title?
1. 1957-1966
2. 1957-1972
3. 1959-1969
(Will they ever win again?)
Candidates in this year’s presidential race include:
1. Harold Stassen
2. Richard Nixon
3. John Kennedy
4. Lyndon Johnson
5. Orval Faubus
6. All of the Above
You can keep your bouffant hairdo in place with a new invention called:
1. DEP
2. Hairspray
3. White Rain
(You might cover your hairdo with a petal hat or next year complements it with a Jackie Kennedy pillbox)

A scandal rocks the radio music industry when it is revealed that many DJs have been paid to play certain records. This practice is called
1. Graft
2. Payola
3. Crayola
In 1960, the first passenger jetliner is introduced. It is a
1. Boeing 707
2. Boeing 727
3. Douglass L1011

In February, the first sit-in takes place at a lunch counter in:
1. Birmingham
2. East Weymouth
3. Charlotte
In April, this epic movie released in 1959 walks away with Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Charlton Heston wins best actor:
1. The Ten Commandments
2. Ben Hur
3. Planet of the Apes
What 1960 suspense drama had us all cringing?
1. The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacClaine
2. Psycho with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
3. Exodus with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint

 In May, the East West Summit in Paris collapses before it even begins when Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology for the U-2 flight of
1. Francis Gary Powers
2. Gary Francis Powers
3. Wrong Way Corrigan
(Earlier same year, desk at UN collapses when Nikki takes shoe to desk)