What is the name of first satellite launched into space by Russia?
100
John F Kennedy
Who was elected President in 1960?
100
A political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974
What is the Watergate Scandal?
100
The Challenger
What is the name of the space shuttle that exploded 1986?
100
The telescope NASA launched on April 25, 1990 that takes pictures of planets, stars and galaxies.
What is the Hubble Space telescope?
200
1950-1953
In what years did the Korean war take place?
200
In Cold Blood
What is the name of Truman Capote's 1966 novel?
200
An American former swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Who is Mark Spitz?
200
A musician assassinated in New York (1980)
Who is John Lennon?
200
A device used as entertainment, Owned by 90% of U.S. households; Used to listen to news and music.
What is the radio?
300
J.D. Salinger
Who is the author of The Cather in the Rye?
300
People who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race
Who are the Freedom Riders?
300
Louise Brown
What is the name of the first successful test tube baby?
300
Identified as a plague in 1981, that later caused panic amongst the people.
What is AIDs?
300
John Updike.
Who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991?
400
1977
In what year did Elvis Presley die?
400
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech?
400
Nobel Prize for Literature 1978
What prize did Isaac Bashevis Singer win?
400
Evidence used to convict criminals; First used in 1987.
What is DNA?
400
The project that was determined to find the DNA sequence of the entire human genome.Completed in 2003
What is the Human Genome Project?
500
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
500
The Beatles
What was a popular band of the 60s?
500
I Will Survive
What is the name of Gloria Gaynor's album?
500
Video game introduced in 1980 by Namco.
What is Pac-Man?
500
Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking female politician in American history.