Kids We Remember, From When We Were Kids – Quiz & Crossword Answers

August 31st, 2021

‘And they knew that it was much more than a hunch …’!


James Dunn and Shirley Temple publicity photo for Bright Eyes-front (cropped). Fox Film Corp publicity photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - for the famous kids trivia quiz

Check out the famous kids trivia answers to see how well you did on the Boomer nostalgic quiz and crossword puzzle.

Crossword puzzle answers

 

Famous kids trivia quiz answers

1. Fill in the blanks: As a child, adorable, curly haired Shirley Temple charmed the public. As an adult, she served as ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.

2. Multiple choice: As a junior at the all-black Moton High School in Farmville, Barbara Johns experienced the unequal conditions between white and black schools and initiated a protest to highlight the inequalities.

3. Unscramble: Tutankhamun was pharaoh of Egypt from 1332 B.C. to 1323 B.C.

4. T/F: False. All is true except that Gentle Ben was a bear, not a dolphin (that was Flipper!).

5. Matching

a. iii  (Ron Howard on The Andy Griffith Show)

b. i    (Keshia Knight Pulliam on The Cosby Show)

c. vi.  (Johnny Crawford on The Rifleman)

d. v    (Susan Olsen on The Brady Bunch)

e. iv   (Mary Badham on To Kill a Mockingbird)

f. ii.   (Billy Mumy on Lost in Space)

 

How well did you do?

Scoring for the famous kids trivia quiz answers

And now, here to tell you everything about anything is Mr. Know-It-All.

Howdy Doody! You got all 5 questions and aced the puzzle:

Yabba-dabba-doo!

Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis?! You got only 3-4 correct answers and an OK puzzle performance:

Time to Nip it in the bud, bud.

Jinkies! You missed 3 and didn’t do so well on the puzzle:

Danger, Will Robinson, danger! Timmy’s in the well!

 

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