1. According to the video Vegas Later Years, the first casinos built on the Las Vegas Strip were financed
by
2. According to the video Vegas Later Years, in 1960 United Airlines introduced _____, instantly making
Las Vegas accessible to millions of Americans who would not have previously visited Sin City
3. According to the video Vegas Later Years, why is Caesars Palace not spelled Caesar’s Palace (with an
apostrophe)
4. According to the video Vegas Later Years, money taken from the count rooms of Las Vegas casinos
and distributed to organized crime figures was known as ______
5. According to the video Vegas Later Years, what was the name of the best selling book that blasted the
city of Las Vegas for its corruption
6. According to the video Vegas Later Years, who was the billionaire recluse who came to Las Vegas and
bought many casinos from their mob-controlled owners
7. According to the video Vegas Later Years, by the mid 1980s, the last of the mobsters would be gone
from Las Vegas and the keys to the city would have passed to ______
8. According to the video Vegas Later Years, the monopoly that Las Vegas held on legalized gambling in
the U.S. was ended in 1978 with the introduction of casino gambling in ______
9. According to the video Vegas Later Years, what was the 1980 tragedy that killed 85 people and injured
700 on the Las Vegas Strip
10. According to the video Vegas Later Years, how did Steve Wynn describe the level of competition
among resort owners along the Las Vegas Strip
11. According to the video Vegas Later Years, in 1988, after a 15 year construction slump, what was the
highly anticipated new resort that began to rise on the Las Vegas Strip
12. According to the video Vegas Later Years, in what way was the economic model of the traditional Las
Vegas casino resort turned on its head with the opening of The Mirage
13. According to the video Vegas Later Years, how successful was The Mirage casino opening in
November of 1989
14. According to the video Vegas Later Years, what did Steve Wynn do with the Dunes hotel on the Las
Vegas strip
15. According to the video Vegas Later Years, Las Vegas is a place built on the idea of escaping from the
past – therefore Las Vegas treats its past the way it wants its visitors to treat their pasts which is to
