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 could you play pinball in NYC in the 1930s?

P __ __ __ Y A __ __ A __ __ S

6 20

In which American city did the first radio station go on the air in 1920?

P __ __ T __ B __ __ G __

1 4

Who was the President of the United States when the Great Depression began?

__ __ R B __ R __ H __ __ V __ __

2 16 22

What is the name for a type of entertainment that was popular from the 1880s to the 1930s that

featured lots of different types of live performances?

__ A __ __ __ V __ L __ E

14 3

What invention made radio less popular?

__ E __ E __ __ S __ __ N

15 10

What is the name of the company that sponsored the “Little Orphan Annie” radio show?

__ V __ L __ I __ E

13

What is the name for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s series of laws and programs aimed at

ending the Great Depression?

THE __ __ W D __ __ __

12

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urrrreeeed

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whhiiicccch

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AAmmmmm

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otttttttttsssssss

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offffff t

_ ________________________________ VVVVVVVVVVVV

deeeee r

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_____________________________________ VVVVVVVVVVVV

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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?

THE A __ T __ __ A __

5

What is ANNIE – both the musical and the radio show – based on?

A C __ __ __ C __ T __ I __

17 11

What is the name of a famous street in NYC that has come to mean professional plays and

musicals?

B __ __ A __ __ A __

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

_ _______________________________ AAAAAAAAAAAAA

________________________________ _________ _

AAAAAAAAAAA __________________________ TTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Hint: What is Annie’s famous optimistic saying?

“__ __ __ __ __ __’ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __!”16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

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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