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1962 Trivia
compiled by Ted Yates |
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Top movies of 1962 included The Birdman of Alcatraz, Lawrence of Arabia, Days of Wine and Roses, To Kill A Mockingbird and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? |
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Johnny Carson took over as host of the tonight show. |
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Astronaut John Glenn made the first U. S. Earth orbits in the mercury capsule friendship 7. |
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TV shows, which made their debut in 1962, included the Beverly Hillbillies, the Jetsons, the Lucy show, the Virginian, Password and Mchale’s Navy. |
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What was new in ‘62? Tab opening aluminum end cans for soft drinks; Polaroid introduced colour film and K-Mart opened for the first time. |
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Entertainers who were born in 1962 include Jim Carrey, Wesley Snipes, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Cruise and Jodie Foster. |
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Entertainers we lost in 1962 included Marilyn Monroe, Ernie Kovacs, Charles Laughton and Eleanor Roosevelt. |
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The New York Yankees won the World Series by beating the san Francisco giants 4 games to 3.
The Toronto maple leafs beat the Chicago black hawks 4 games to 2 to take the Stanley Cup. |
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The biggest dance craze of the year and the entire decade was Chubby Checker’s ‘The Twist’. |
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The Trans Canada highway officially opened |
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The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to John Steinbeck.
The Lenin peace prize was awarded to artist Pablo Picasso. |
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The Telstar communications satellite transmitted the first worldwide TV show. |
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Music artists who had their first hit in 1962 include The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons, Bobby Goldsboro, The Supremes, Tommy Roe, Dionne Warwick and Marvin Gaye. |
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The Grammy award winning record of the year was ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco’ by Tony Bennett. Soupy Sales was the host of the show that year. |
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The Beatles sign a contract with a 27 year old record store owner named Brian Epstein to act as their manager.
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The average annual income in Canada in 1962 was $4,500.
1962 price checks, a 16 oz. jar of Kraft Cheezwhiz cost 57cents, a 32 oz. jar of Miracle Whip set you back 59 cents and a tin of Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli was stamped 29 cents. |
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In ‘62. The Shaw festival opened in Niagara on the lake and the curtain closed on Marilyn Monroe, who died of an apparent drug overdose. |
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The Queenston- Lewiston Bridge, which spanned the Niagara River officially opened in November 1962 at a cost of 16 million dollars. |
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