American Roadside Attractions Trivia Quiz

American Roadside Attractions of the 1950s to 1970s
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American Roadside Attractions of the 1950s to 1970s
Ten questions on highway billboards, giant creatures, odd architecture, family stops, local legends, and postwar tourism.
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American Roadside Attractions of the 1950s to 1970s revisits the oversized statues, unusual buildings, mysterious demonstrations, souvenir stops, and attention-grabbing signs that persuaded families to pull off the highway during the golden age of automobile travel.
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Don 6 / 10 2:34
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Harveyfrid... 5 / 10 1:35
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Ro 5 / 10 1:38
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Michael 4 / 10 1:27
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Joe 6 / 10 1:45
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Don 6 / 10 2:34
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Harveyfrid... 5 / 10 1:35
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Ro 5 / 10 1:38
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Michael 4 / 10 1:27
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# Player Score Time
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J
Joe 6 / 10 1:45
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D
Don 6 / 10 2:34
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H
Harveyfrid... 5 / 10 1:35
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R
Ro 5 / 10 1:38
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M
Michael 4 / 10 1:27
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What This Quiz Covers

The quiz covers a South Dakota advertising success, a California gravity attraction, giant concrete creatures, an eccentric Wisconsin house, legendary redwood greeters, a New Jersey novelty building, and a Kansas community creation.

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  1. The Mystery Spot opened among the redwoods outside which California city?
  2. Which earlier novelty building inspired Claude Bell's ambition to create the Cabazon Dinosaurs?
  3. Alan Schafer's South of the Border attraction grew from a small beer stand in which state?
  4. What name was given to the first giant dinosaur Claude Bell began constructing in 1964?
  5. Hugh Davis completed his enormous blue concrete whale near which Oklahoma town in 1972?
  6. Which offer turned a struggling South Dakota drugstore into a heavily advertised highway stop?
  7. Which legendary pair became the towering entrance greeters at California's Trees of Mystery?
  8. Who began rolling the enormous community twine ball displayed in Cawker City, Kansas?
  9. Who opened Wisconsin's House on the Rock to paying visitors around 1960?
  10. Which New Jersey community is home to the six-story novelty building known as Lucy?
American Roadside Attractions of the 1950s to 1970s
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