Memory Lane - 1926

A Trip Down Memory Lane - 1926
Duration: 1st January 2022 - 31st March 2022


 
LEVELS
Fond Memories: 1-5 tasks
Reminiscing: 6-10 tasks
Nostalgia: 11-15 tasks
 
 
Tasks:

1. Average Cost
A First Class Stamp: 3 cents
A Gallon of Milk: 55 cents
Loaf of Bread: 10 cents
Movie Ticket: 25 cents
✴️ Read a book where someone buys a stamp, milk or bread or goes to the movies OR with an author whose first name begins with A OR last name begins with C.
 
2. Average Income Per Year: $1300.00
✴️ Read a book with ONE of the following numbers in the publication year : 0, 1, 3. Tell us the year.
 
3. U.S. President - Calvin Coolidge
✴️ Read a book whose author's first and last name begin with the same letter OR set in Vermont.
 
4. World Population - 117.4 Million
✴️ Read a book that has more than 1174 ratings. Tell us the ratings number.
 
5. Born in 1926
Queen Elizabeth II
Cloris Leachman
Harper Lee
Chuck Berry
Don Rickles
Tony Bennett
✴️ Read a book with a character whose first name begins with C, D, E, H or T (tell us their name) OR with a character who is a queen, actor, writer, musician, comedian or singer.
 
6. Died in 1926
June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect
June 14 – Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker
August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor
December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter
December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson
✴️ Read a book with a character who is Spanish, American, Italian, French or Swedish OR set in Spain, the United States, Italy, France or Sweden.
 
7. Sports Winners
World Series (Baseball): St. Louis Cardinals
Stanley Cup (Hockey): Montreal Maroons
NFL Champions: Frankfort Yellow Jackets
U.S. Open Golf: Bobby Jones
Kentucky Derby: Bubbling Over
✴️ Read a book where a character attends a sporting event OR with a character named Bobby or Jones OR with a double letter in a title word.
 
8. In Theaters
Beau Geste
Don Juan
Old Ironsides
Sparrows
What Price Glory?
✴️ Read a book with the genre or tagged with Drama, Romance, Adventure, Comedy/Humor, Sea/Oceans or War.
 
9. On The Radio
"Always" by Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra
"Bye Bye Blackbird" by Gene Austin
"East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" by Duke Ellington
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" by Al Jolson
"When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along" Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
✴️ Read a book whose title begins with A, B, E, I, or W (all words count).
 
IN THE NEWS

10. January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.
✴️ Read a book where a character watches television OR set in London.
 
11. April 30 – African-American pilot Elizabeth (Bessie) Coleman is killed, after falling 500 feet (150 m) from an airplane. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license.
✴️ Read a book where the MC is a pilot OR with a character that is African-American or Native American OR with a character named Elizabeth.
 
12. May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach.
✴️ Read a book where a character disappears or is kidnapped and then found OR from the Christian genre.
 
13. October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.
✴️ Read any Winnie-the-Pooh book OR a book by an author who uses initials.
 
14. November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
✴️ Read a book with a road on the cover (show cover) OR with words like or similar to ROAD or HIGHWAY in the title.
 
15. December 13 – Miina Sillanpää becomes Finland's first female government minister.
✴️ Read a book set in Finland OR with a female who holds an office in the government (of any kind).


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