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

Babe Ruth’s home run record of 60 is matched and then surpassed by another New York Yankee, in the 162nd game of the season – Ruth batted 60 in a season consisting of 154 games. And so the controversy begins… The hitter was:
1. Mickey Mantle
2. Roger Maris
3. Joe DiMaggio


What 1961 song recorded by the
Marcels was always played by two people on the piano at every open house.
1. Blue Moon
2. ChopSticks
3. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
In November President Kennedy authorizes increasing the number of U. S. advisors in Vietnam over the next two years from 1000 to
1. 2500
2. 10,000
3. 16,000
There was one McDonald’s in the area. Where was it and how much was a hamburger:
1. Braintree Five Corners & 20
2. North Weymouth & $ .15
3. Quincy Point & $.18
What popular date “restaurant” was threatened by this national chain?
1. Al’s Drive-In
2. Eddie’s Diner
3. The China Star
In February, Friendship 7 orbits the earth. We watch the news with Chet Huntley & David Brinkley as this astronaut has his television debut:
1. Walter Shirra
2. John Glenn
3. Virgil Grissom
Which is the new dance (and song) not by Chubby Checker that “goes like this”:
1. The Twist
2. Twist & Shout
3. Peppermint Twist
Pope John the XXIII convenes:
1. First Vatican Council
2. Second Vatican Council
3. Council of Nicea
4. Diet of Worms
Girls’ sports at Archies were very competitive. Who won the 1962 Girls Gym Demonstration?
1. The Freshman
2. The Sophomores
3. The Juniors
4. The Seniors
5. None of the above
(But we all looked really geeky in those great Gym Dresses)


What color gym dress was worn by our class all 4 years?
1. Maroon
2. Blue
3. Gold
4. Green
What was the name of our newspaper?
1. The Crosier
2. The Mitre
3. The Chasible

 It’s the beginning of the end for those trucks that come during summer at dusk to spray the neighborhood with DDT. That’s because this woman publishes her book about the dangers of pesticides:
1. Carson McCullers
2. Rachel Carson
3. Margaret Mead
(What was the name of her book?)