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100

This sweet treat featuring chocolate morsels was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1938

What is the chocolate chip cookie?

100

What was June 6 1944 also known as?

What is D-Day?

100

This vaccine was developed by American physician Jonas Salk

What is the polio vaccine?

100

Czech Republic and Solvakia were better known as this in the 60s?

What is Czechoslovakia?

100
The World Health Organization certified the eradication of this disease December of 1979

What is smallpox?

200

This art movement was huge, featuring bold colors and geometric shapes

What is Art Deco?

200

This explosive scientific theory was introduced to the world in 1948

What is the Big Bang Theory?

200

This Soviet Union leader died in 1953

Who was Joseph Stalin?

200

In 1965, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to do what?

What is travel to space?

200

What did M*A*S*H stand for in the 1972 sitcom of the same name?

What is Mobile Army Surgical Hospital?

300

In 1938, whose radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds caused panic in the United states?

Who is Orson Welles?

300

Orson Welles first cinematic feature 

What was Citizen Kane?

300

Alaska became part of the USA this year

What is 1959?

300

In 1967 the first ever transplant of this human organ took place

What is the heart?

300

This 1975 film starred Jack Nicholson as a patient at a mental institution?

What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

400

Which country won the 1934 FIFA World Cup?

What is Italy?

400

On January 30th 1948, which Indian activist and leader of the Indian independence movement was killed?

Who was Mahatma Gandhi?

400

This continent became a protected, scientific preserve in 1959

What is Antartica?

400

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton first met on the set of this 1962 film

What is Cleopatra?

400

He was known as the king of glam rock during the 70s

Who was David Bowie?
500

Activist plotted to kill which English comedy star on his arrival to Japan?

Who was Charlie Chaplin?

500

What was the name of the project that led to the creation of the first nuclear weapons in the 1940s?

What was the Manhattan Project?

500

This 1954 TV series follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie

What is Lassie?

500

A 1963 plane crash claimed the lives of country music performers Cowboy Copaps, Hawkshaw Hawkins and who?

Who was Patsy Cline?

500

This US president was nearly assassinated twice in September 1975

Who was Gerald Ford?

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