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1960's Trivia
100
True or False: The stock market boom of the 1960's was followed by a decade-long depression.
What is False?
100
President John F. Kennedy made history by becoming the nations first _____ President.
What is Catholic?
100
He was the youngest and the first Roman Catholic president.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
-A collaboration between US, France, and Britain. -Changed the face of communication by being the first device our race used to relay phone calls, fax imagines, and television pictures, including the first transatlantic TV feed, through space. -Product of the Space Race
What is the Telstar?
100
This man established a cult in rural California and led his followers on several murders, he was later sentenced to life in prison.
Who is Charles Manson
200
This sector of the American economy experienced its "golden age" and the center of all of its production was in Detroit.
What is the Automobile Industry?
200
This was the name given to President Johnson's policy of reforming education, healthcare, immigration, and the environment.
What is the Great Society?
200
This man was the dictator of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States tried to remove him from power with the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
-Invented by John Shepherd-Barron (British) & Donald Wetzel (American) -Designed to dispense a fixed amount of cash when a user inserted a specifically coded card
What is the ATM?
200
This infamous penitentiary closed in 1963 and is located off the coast of San Francisco.
What is Alcatraz?
300
Businesses and Corporations of the 1960s merged to form these types of partnerships rather than remaining two independent companies.
What are Conglomerates?
300
This bill gave President Johnson military power outside the boundaries set by the Constitution for the Commander-in-Chief during the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
This was a very popular war from 1955 to 1975 that ended with Communist victory.
What is Vietnam War?
300
-Invented by Paul Winchell -Significance: led to efforts to develop a new generation of left ventricular assist devices into the 1970s. -The first temporary artificial heart transplant was in 1969 also. The patient survived for 65 hours until they transplanted a real heart.
What is the artificial heart?
300
The United States was in a rivalry with the Soviet Union during the Space Race; what was the name of the organization responsible for conducting the American space initiative (Can't be the abbreviation only)
What is the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)?
400
Many careers began to shift into this sector of the American economy during the 1960s with the rise of the Information Age.
What are office-desk jobs? (Shift away from manual labor)
400
True or False: President Johnson sought re-election for his second term as President.
What is False?
400
True or False: Bay of Pigs was the U.S invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans that failed to remove Castro from power.
What is True?
400
-Has the same pattern of keys as we use today. -It allowed people to type faster and also to have a neater pages.
What is the IMB typewriter?
400
This infamous musical was released in 1965 and featured many favorite songs including "My Favorite Things". The lead actress is Julie Andrews.
What is the Sound of Music
500
This was the name given to President Lyndon Johnson's approach to the American economy. Specifically, he pledged to work to get rid of unemployment.
What is the War on Poverty?
500
This program was added to help provide medical insurance to citizens over the age of 65. It was a part of President Johnson's "Great Society".
What is Medicare?
500
She was the author of The Feminine Mystique and was one of the founders of NOW.
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
-Stands for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -Designed to allow users to interact with computers and set for a higher standard for computing technology
What is the BASIC programming language?
500
This space mission was nicknamed "The Successful Failure"
What is Apollo 13?
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