The most decorated team in the history of organized sports, winning 27 world championships.
Who are the New York Yankees?
100
This country gained its independence from Denmark in 1944.
What is Iceland?
100
The hardest substance known to man.
What is Diamond?
100
The year in which Google was founded.
What is 1998?
100
A legendary US festival that hosted over 350,000 fans took place in 1969.
What is Woodstock?
200
In 1990, these two baseball greats created history by becoming the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back homers in an MLB game.
Who are Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr.?
200
This was generally regarded as the end of the Cold War, this is the year the Berlin Wall came down?
What is 1989?
200
The modern international unit of energy.
What is Joule?
200
In 2006, Pluto was downgraded from a planet to this, by the International Astronomical Union?
What is a Dwarf Planet?
200
Heartbreak Hotel was this artist first hit in 1956.
Who is Elvis Presley?
300
This country dominates Olympics basketball like no one else, winning Gold 14 out of 18 attempts.
What is USA?
300
He became US president after Herbert Hoover.
Who is FDR (Franklin D Roosevelt?
300
The name of the first American space station, which fell to Earth in 1979.
What is Skylab?
300
This popular children's show debuted on PBS in 1969.
What is Sesame Street?
300
In 1981 this was the first video played on MTV.
What is Video killed the radio star by the Bungles?
400
Winner of the 1994 world series.
What is, no series was played due to a player strike?
400
The year which Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
What is 1990?
400
In computing, HTML stands for this.
What is HyperText Markup Language?
400
Ken Jennings, a contestant on this popular quiz show, won over 2.5 million dollars in 2004.
What is Jeopardy? :)
400
This popular musician bought ATV Music and every Beatles song for $47 million in 1985.
Who is Michael Jackson?
500
Retired American swimmer Michael Fred Phelps II is easily the most successful Olympian ever. He has won a whopping 22 medals at the 3 Olympics he has taken part in. Out of those, this is how many were Gold.
What is 18?
500
Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston USA in 1992 aged 103, Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of this.
What is The sinking of the Titanic?
500
This test is known for testing color blindness in humans.
What is The Ishihara Test?
500
The first woman in space, she "rode" Space Shuttle Challenger into orbit in 1983.
Who is Sally Ride?
500
In 1959, a plane crashed killing these three popular musicians of the era.
Who are Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper?