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


In his final days of his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower warns of:
1. Traffic jams caused by his new interstate highway program
2. The military industrial complex
3. Atoms for Peace
Mad for Plaid, we all wore Bermuda shorts made out of this bleeding edge material:
1. Calico
2. Gingham
3. Madras

This best-selling novel, written by Harper Lee is now judged a classic. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in1961.
1. Advise & Consent (Alan Drury)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. A Death in the Family (James Agee)
AWHS golf team has home course of:
1. Blue Hills Country Club
2. South Shore Country Club
3. Hingham Golf Club
We start taking sample SAT test from large red books published by a little known private school in Boston. The books are published by:
1. Little Brown & Sons
2. Manta Ray
3. Manter Hall School
In April, Soviets put first man into space. His name is
1. Nicolai Bulganin
2. Yuri Gagarin
3. Georgi Malenkov
What was the Branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad that we used to get to school when the Eastern Mass Street Railway—actually buses -- went on strike:
1. The Old Colony
2. The Greenbush Local
3. The Last Train to Clarksville
“Hey, have you got a church key?” This is no longer necessary due to this enhancement to aluminum cans invented just last year
1. Plastic rings vs. cartons to hold a six pack
2. Gablinger’s – the first low calorie beer
3. Pop Tops
A good summer job was one that paid minimum wage. In 1961 that was:
1. 50 cents an hour
2. 65 cents an hour
3. $1.00 an hour

The first man in space is hailed as a hero as Mercury 1 is returns from a sub-orbital flight. He is Alan Shepard and his hometown is
1. Hingham, Mass
2. Derry, New Hampshire
3. North Conway, New Hampshire
If you don’t want to read it, you can use this 1961 bestseller as a doorstop. It is by William Shirer and is entitled
1. Masters of Deceit
2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
3. The Status Seekers