Letters of the Alphabet
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100
Abbreviation for the guerilla fighters in the Vietnam War
What is VC
100
This Soviet Union machine, the first of its kind orbiting Earth, was launched on October 4, 1957.
What is Sputnik I
100
The largest country in Asia by land area in 1989.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
100
The device in which many Americans make their popcorn and heat their dinner. Invented in 1947.
What is the microwave.
100
A British band that became popular in the United Kingdom in 1960 after the release of their single "Love Me Do."
Who are the Beatles
200
Abbreviation for nuclear bombs delivered via rocket propulsion
What is ICBM
200
The city in Hungary where a rebellion against the USSR was brutally vanquished in 1956
What is Budapest
200
The war in which the United States failed to continue their containment policy.
What is the Vietnam War
200
The common name for the worst nuclear meltdown in history that occurred in 1986.
What is Chernobyl
200
A song written by the "Piano Man" in 1989 expressing the lengthy conflict between the US and USSR by listing many of the results of that conflict.
What is "We Didn't Start the Fire"
300
The initials of the president famous in the old joke "Hey, hey, ___, how many kids did you kill today?" during the Vietnam War?
What is LBJ
300
A communist island nation that was not behind the iron curtain.
What is Cuba
300
What is the war commonly known as "The Forgotten War" because no one remembers it.
What is the Korean War.
300
The element commonly used in fission bombs represented in the periodic table by the number 92.
What is Uranium
300
A movie starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery that depicts the extreme tensions between the US and USSR, and is primarily set underwater.
What is the Hunt for Red Oktober
400
The first letter in the slang term for the nuclear fusion bomb
What is H
400
The name of the mission that took Neil Armstrong to become the first man to walk on the moon.
What is Apollo 11
400
The middle eastern country that the USSR invaded in 1979.
What is Afghanistan.
400
The common name of the worst US nuclear disaster that occurred in 1979.
What is Three Mile Island
400
A James Cameron movie starring Linda Hamilton that shows the fear brought upon by the technological advances through a potential robot apocalypse.
What is "The Terminator"
500
President Harry Truman's middle name
What is S
500
The first American in space on the Mercury mission in 1961. His name.
Who is Alan Shepard
500
What is Josef Stalin's given birth name?
What is Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
500
The equation that quantifies the theory of the conversion of mass to energy, written by Albert Einstein
What is E=mc^2
500
The abbreviation for the Soviet Secret Police, commonly found as James Bond's arch enemy.
What is the KGB
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