1950s
Jonas Salk became a famous name in the 1950s in this field.
What is Medicine?
This cartoon family living in the future with flying cars premiered in 1962.
Who are The Jetsons?
This singer’s 1971 hit “Imagine” became a global anthem for peace.
Who is John Lennon?
In Chess, This is the only piece that moves in an “L” shape.
What is the knight?
The name of Veteran's Day as it was initially founded.
What is Armistice Day?
The US President featured on the $5 bill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1953, Castle Bravo made headlines as the first test of this.
What is the atomic bomb?
JFK Jr. was assassinated in this city in 1963.
What is Dallas, TX?
This snack cake introduced in the 1970s promised “big creaminess in a little round cake.”
What are Ding Dongs?
The playing card company, Bicycle, was founded in this century.
What is the 19th-Century? (1883)
Armistice Day, later Veteran's Day, celebrates the end of what major war?
What is World War I?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific?
First sold in 1950, this ballpoint pen brand became a global staple for students.
What is Bic?
The US agency founded in 1961:
A) Peace Corps
B) National Parks Authority
C) IRS
D) CIA
What is A? (The Peace Corps)
This Swedish pop group won Eurovision in 1974 with “Waterloo.”
Who is ABBA?
In mah-jongg, a four-of-a-kind set is called this...
What is a kong?
The name of the Treaty putting an end to World War I.
(Repeat from
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The name of the river running through Paris.
What is the Seine River?
This mountain was summitted for the first time in 1953.
What is Mt. Everest?
The most popular boys' name of the 1960s.
What is Michael? (~833,000)
The most popular boys' name of the 1970s.
What is Michael? (~707,000)
In basic dominoes, un-drawn tiles are placed facedown in the pool with this distinctive nickname.
What is the boneyard?
The Big Three of the 1945 Yalta Conference included Churchill, Roosevelt, and this man.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This Greek hero defeated the Minotaur in the labyrinth.
Who is Theseus?
After Gunsmoke, this series broadcast in 1959, is the second longest-running Western series in American History.
What is Bonanza?
The occupation of Larry Hagman's character Tony in the TV sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
What is an astronaut?
This 1971 novel introduced the dystopian slang of “droogs” and “ultraviolence.”
What is A Clockwork Orange?
This trivia game, created by two Canadian journalists in 1979, became a worldwide craze in the 1980s.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
In United States military history, this war lasted between 1861-1865.
What is the American Civil War?
This Old Testament figure interpreted dreams for the Pharaoh.
Who is Joseph?
James Stewart's somewhat co-star in 1956's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Who is Doris Day?
After JFK's assassination in 1963, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in at this location.
A) Camp David
B) On board Air Force One
C) Yellowstone National Park
d) Paris, France
What is B? (Air Force One)
This 1977 miniseries based on Alex Haley’s novel became a cultural phenomenon.
What is Roots?
In 1970, this word game topped U.S. board-game sales charts.
What is Scrabble?
This branch of the U.S. military was separated from the Army in 1947 and became its own service.
What is the Air Force?
This ancient trade route extended from China to the Mediterranean.
What is the Silk Road?
This famous artist died in a car crash in New York in 1956.
Who is Jackson Pollack?
The name of Marilyn Monroe's last completed movie.
What is The Misfits?
The most financially successful (top-grossing) film of the decade.
What is Star Wars?
In Uno, this card type was not part of the original 1971 deck but was added in later versions to increase competitive play.
What is the Wild Draw Four?
This U.S. general became the first five-star general in U.S. history during World War II.
Who is General George C. Marshall?
The C in E=MC2 represents this fundamental physical constant.
What is the speed of light? (299,792,458 meters/second)
The average cost of a house in 1970s America:
A) $3,000
B) $7,000
C) $12,000
D) $21,000
What is $7,000? (B)
The average cost of a house in 1960s USA.
A) Just under $12,000.
B) Just under $32,000.
C) Just under $52,000.
D) Just under $72,000.
Just under $12,000. (A)
At the start of the 1970s the average price of a home jumped from $27,000 to this amount by the end of the decade:
A) $34,000
B) $43,000
C) $55,000
D) $74,000
$74,000. (D)
The classic board game, Monopoly, was introduced as a critique of this idea.
What is Capitalism?
This major WWII operation, was code-named “Operation Overlord”.
What is "D-Day" or the Invasion of Normandy?
This animal is the only marsupial native to the United States.
What is the opossum?
This 1951 sci-fi novel by Asimov describes psychohistory and predicts the fall of a galactic empire.
What is Foundation?
The most financially successful (top-grossing) movie of the decade.
What is The Sound of Music?
This 1972 Supreme Court case ruled that capital punishment, as applied, constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
What is Furman v Georgia?
The name “Mah-jongg” translates roughly to this.
What is "the sparrow"?
This term described the disguised merchant vessels that carried hidden weapons to lure German submarines into a trap in WWI.
What is a "Q-ship"?
Largely forgotten to history, this ancient library, located in modern-day Turkey, competed fiercely with the Library of Alexandria.
What is the Library of Pergamum?
Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th US states in this year.
What is 1959?
The year Aretha Franklin released the #1 hit Respect.
What is 1967?
Widely considered the most successful commercial video game release, Pong came out in this year.
What is 1972?
This 1950s Parker Brothers game featuring plastic fruit is still popular for children learning colors and counting.
What is Hi Ho! Cherry-O?
During the Korean War, this massive amphibious assault in September 1950 turned the tide in favor of the UN forces.
What is the Inchon Landing? (Operation Chromite)
With an extremely long orbital period of roughly 2,500 years, the Hale-Bopp comet last passed Earth in this year.
What is 1996 and 1997?