Speeches/Videos
Presidents
Events
Authors
TV/Film
100
We watched his "I've been to the mountaintop," speech?
MLK
100
He had his eyes on sending a man to the moon, but never got a chance to see it happen?
JFK
100
In which decade did why achieve the following
60s
100
She wrote A Raisin in the Sun?
Lorraine Hansberry
100
On what show might you find this?
Batman
200
We watched a CBC interview with him about his beliefs and his exit from the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
200
He won the crowded 1968 election after previously losing the 1960 election, thanks to a sweaty performance in the first televised debate.
Nixon
200
Name one of the wars the U.S. was involved in during the 50s and 60s?
Vietnam War
Korea War
Cold War
200
What was the relationship between Harper Lee and Truman Capote? Bonus for every book you can tell me that they wrote?
Friends
Lee-To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchmen
Capote-In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's
200
This show boldly went where no man had gone before in 1966 when it debuted and has set off a series of spinoffs and movies?
Star Trek
300
James Baldwin and William F. Buckley held a debate over this topic in Oxford, England?
Race in America
300
He passed the 1965 Civil Rights Act during his Presidency, but also got the United States more heavily involved in the Vietnam War, leading him to not seek re-election.
Johnson
300
He shook his hips and they just had cute hair, what are the two musicians pictured below that caused fans to swoon and go crazy when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show?
Elvis and The Beatles
300
He wrote The Pedestrian and Fahrenheit 451?
Ray Bradbury
300
This genre of movies was widely popular in the 50s and 60s? Bonus if you can name the movie pictured
Westerns
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
400
Much like Smith, Shirley Chisholm broke barriers. Name something she was able to do during her long career?
First African-American woman to run for President
First female Democratic candidate for President
First African-American woman elected to Congress
400
He sent troops to help with the integration of a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Eisenhower
400
Thurgood Marshall had the distinction of being the first African-American appointed to this position?
Supreme Court Justice
400
He wrote If Beale Street Could Talk?
James Baldwin
400
The chocolate factory scene was featured on this 1950s hit TV show?
I Love Lucy
500
We watched a short video about Margaret Chase Smith who had a variety of accomplishments during his career. Name one of those accomplishments?
First woman representative of Maine
First woman to work in both houses of Congress
First woman to run for President of a major political party
500
The 1968 election may have looked differently if George Wallace did not run, likely taking votes from Hubert Humphrey, but also if this candidate had not been assassinated while campaigning, 5 years after the death of his brother.
Robert Kennedy
500
February 3, 1959, is also known as this, when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash?
The day the music died
500
Before he died at age 47 he wrote On the Road?
Jack Kerouac
500
What fear caused the creation of movies like the one below?
Nuclear War