Sports
Which New York Yankees outfielder was nicknamed “The Mick” and wore the number 7?
Mickey mantle
On the 1960s sitcom Gilligans Island, what was the professor‘s actual name?
Roy Hinkley
In 1970 the Soviet Union landed Marina seven on another planet marking the first time a spacecraft transmitted data back to earth from a foreign planetary surface. What planet did it land on?
Venus
In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense 13 day, political and military standoff after American spy planes discovered Soviet nuclear missiles deployed on which island nation just 90 miles from Florida
Cuba
in the late 1950s and early 1960s college students across America competed in a bizarre, cramped endurance fad that involves squeezing as many people into what tight enclosed structure?
A telephone booth
Who was the heavy underdog who shocked the world by knocking out George Foreman in the 1974 “rumble in the jungle” bout in Zaire?
Muhammad Ali
In the 1965 film adaptation of the sound of music what is the last name of the family that Maria Rainier goes to govern?
Von trapp
In 1971 East Pakistan fought a war of independence against West Pakistan to establish itself as a brand new sovereign nation. What is this country called today?
Bangladesh
In July 1953 and armistice was signed to halt the active fighting of the Korean War rather than a formal peace treaty this agreement established a heavily fortified buffer zone between north and South Korea, along which specific line of latitude?
The 38th parallel
In 1970 a massive foul smelling crisis unfolded on a beach in Florence Oregon when a state highway division decided to use a half ton of dynamite to remove a 45 foot carcass. What kind of animal was it?
A sperm whale (The exploding whale incident)
What was the nickname given to the Minnesota Vikings defensive line of the late 60s and 70s?
The purple people eaters
In Alfred Hitchcock’s terrifying 1960 thriller psycho what household substance was used to simulate the flowing blood during the shower scene?
Hershey’s chocolate syrup
Before NASA sent humans into space they launched a three-year-old chimpanzee into orbit January 1961 aboard a mercury Redstone capsule to test life-support systems. What was this chimpanzee‘s name?
Ham the chimp
Who was the standard bearing conservative US senator from Arizona who ran as the Republican nominee for president in 1964 losing a landslide to Lyndon B. Johnson?
Barry Goldwater
In 1965 the Pillsberry Company introduced a cheerful, white animated mascot who giggled whenever someone poked him in the stomach. What is his official name?
Poppin fresh or the Pillsberry doughboy
In 1973, who won the tennis match dubbed the “Battle of the Sexs” by defeating Bobby Riggs in straight set?
Billie Jean King
Barry Gordy Junior founded Motown records in Detroit, Michigan operating out of a residential house that became famously known by what nickname?
Hitsville USA
In 1960 American physicist, Theodore Meyer in successfully built in operated the world’s first working model of what optical device at Hughes research laboratories?
The laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)
Signed in September 1978 by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, what was the name of the historic peace accords broker by US President Jimmy Carter at a presidential retreat in Maryland?
The camp David accords
In 1957 a classic children’s toy was accidentally invented when a company tried to create a wallpaper cleaner, but realized the nontoxic pliable clay compound made for fantastic colorful, play toy. What was it?
Play-Doh
In 1973, Secretariat became the first horse in 25 years to win the Triple Crown. By how many historic links did he win the final race?
31 lengths
Who was the soulful folk artist who performed a legendary solo acoustic set to kickoff of historic Woodstock music and art fair in August 1969?
Richie Haven
Construction began in 1960 on a massive project designed to control the flooding of the Nile River creating the gargantuan Reservoir known as Lake Nasser what is the name of this famous dam?
The Aswan high dam
While Richard Nixon is famous for resigning during the Watergate scandal, his original vice president was forced to resign in year earlier in October 1973 after being charged with tax invasion and accepting bribes. what was his name
spiro Agnew
In 1975 the Kenner toy company released a stretchy gel filled superhero action figure that you could pull knot and twist only for him to slowly shrink back to his original size. What was his name?
Stretch Armstrong