1960s
Famed Civil Rights Icon Assassinated in Memphis, Tennesse in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
The only president to resign from Office with the inevitability of his impeachment around the corner?
Who is Richard Nixon?
This team was nicknamed "Showtime" throughout the 1980s.
What are the Los Angeles Lakers?
This actor played Sheneneh Jenkins, Mama Payne, Ole' Otis, Roscoe, Dragonfly Jones and Bob from Marketing in his hit TV show.
Who is Martin Lawerence?
He was elected the first Black president in 2008. His name, his vice president and where was he born?
You might say be thinking to yourself that's a lot of stuff for one question but this happened less than 15 years ago.
Who is Barack Obama?
Who is Joe Biden?
What is Honolulu, HI?
The youngest person to assume the presidency by the time he was elected.
Who is John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
This musical icon released their first solo album "Off the Wall" in 1979.
Bonus Points if you can name two songs from the album.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This 80s arcade game was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful coin game.
Where were the 1992 and 1996 Olympics hosted?
What is Barcelona, Spain and Atlanta, GA
This online video-streaming platform was launched in 2005.
What is YouTube?
Name of one of the astronauts who landed on the moon in 1969.
Neil Armstrong
or
Buzz Aldrin
This 1975 movie was the first major motion picture to be shot mainly on the ocean and it was also the first film to ever reach the golden 100-million dollar number in American box offices.
What is Jaws?
The Highest selling album of all time was released in this decade.
What is Thriller?
In what year was "The Trial of the Century" and who did it involve?
What is 1994 and who is Orenthal James Simpson?
in 2001, the US invaded this country after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
The most commercially successful Motown Act and America's most successful vocal group with 12 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs like "You Can’t Hurry Love” and “Stop! In The Name Of Love” are some of their hits.
Who are Diana Ross and the Supremes?
This TV series premiered in 1975, is still on the air today and has been a launching pad for many comedians' careers.
What is Saturday Night Live?
This DMC Sports car model was fitted with a flux capacitor to turn it into a time-traveling machine in the Back to the Future franchise.
What is a Delorean?
This show released in the 1990s and is thought to be the first reality TV show.
What is The Real World.
This film from 2009 became the first to gross over $2 billion at the box office.
What is The Avatar?
This rock n roll dance from the 60s created a massive craze amongst young people.
Papa and Grandma, they need your help for this one!
What is the Twist?
This author published a groundbreaking novel in 1977 which would later have a film made based on it in 1980.
Hint: Jack Nicholson is in said film.
Who is Stephen King?
This Rap group released the first rap album to be certified Gold in 1985.
Who is Run DMC?
This person was the highest-selling artist of the 1990s.
Who is Celine Dion?
In 2007, she became the first woman elected to serve as Speaker of the House.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?