The ANNIE Radio
Word Scramble
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The ANNIE Radio Word Scramble
Instructions:
Before ANNIE was a movie or musical on Broadway, she was on the radio! Listeners could win
“decoder rings” that helped unravel secret messages broadcast during the radio show. On this
website there are seven short radio programs about different historical events, people, and things
related to the musical ANNIE. After you listen to all of them carefully, you should be able to
complete the questions in this word scramble so you can decode your own secret message, just like
the kids who listened to the ANNIE radio show did! Use corresponding numbers in your answers to
fill in the secret message. You may want to complete the puzzle with an older friend or family
member…it’s tricky! Good luck!
Where
erre ccould you
ou
up
play pinball in NYC in the 1930s?
__ __ Y A __
__ __ A __ __ S
P ___ __
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20
In which
city did the first radio station go on the air in 1920?
wh
hich American
Am
__ T __
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P ___ __
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t United States when the Great Depression began?
Who was the President off the
____ __ R B __ R __
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__ V __ __
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16
22
What is the name for a type of entertainment that was popular from the 1880s to the 1930s that
urred lots
otts of different types of live performances?
featured
__ __ __
__ V __ L __ E
__ A __
14
3
What
W
h invention made
dee rradio less popular?
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10
W
h is the name of the company that sponsored the “Little Orphan Annie” radio show?
What
____ V __ L __ I __ E
13
What is the name for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s series of laws and programs aimed at
hee G
ending the
Great Depression?
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Who created the “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip?
H __ __ O __ D __ R A __
7
What form of entertainment made vaudeville less popular?
____ O V __ __ S
18
What is the “nickname” for October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed in the U.S.?
B __ __ C __ __ U E __ D __ __
8
What were President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s radio speeches called?
__ I R __ __ __ D __ __ H __ T __
9
What was the name for a restaurant where you bought food from coin-operated machines?
__ T __ __ A __
THE A __
5
What is ANNIE – both the musical and the radio show – based on?
__ __
_ __ C __ T __ I __
A C __
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What is the name of a famous street in NYC that has come to mean professional plays and
musicals?
__ A __ __ A __
B ___ __
19
23
During the Great Depression, people had to wait in long lines to get food. What were these
lines called?
B __ __ A __ L __ __ __ S
21
Hint: What is Annie’s famous optimistic saying?
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2
3
4
5
6
7 8
9 10 11 12
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Answers:
Penny arcades, Pittsburgh, Herbert Hoover, Vaudeville, Television, Ovaltine, The New Deal, Harold Gray, Movies, Black Tuesday, Fireside Chats, The Automat, A comic strip, Broadway, Breadlines
Secret message: “The sun’ll come out tomorrow!”
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