Geography
What is the largest continent in the world?
Asia
What actress played Mary Poppins in the 1964 Disney movie?
Julie Andrews
Who was the President of the United States when the 1960s began?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was the name of the first human-made satellite launched into space?
Sputnik 1
What sport involves knocking down ten pins with a heavy ball?
Bowling
What country was formerly known as Ceylon during the 1960s?
Sri Lanka
Who was the lead singer of the rock band The Rolling Stones?
Mick Jagger
Which American astronaut became the first person to orbit Earth in 1962?
John Glenn
Who was the first human to orbit Earth?
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, in 1961
What famous baseball player was known as “The Say Hey Kid”?
Willie Mays
What country became independent from Britain in 1965 and has Kingston as its capital?
Jamaica
What was the name of the fictional town where The Andy Griffith Show took place?
Mayberry
What was the name of President Kennedy’s program to land an American astronaut on the Moon?
The Apollo program
What was the name of the first spacecraft to take close-up pictures of Mars in 1965?
Mariner 4
Which golfer won the Masters Tournament in 1961, 1962, and 1964?
Arnold Palmer
What country became independent from Britain in 1963 and has Nairobi as its capital?
Kenya
What 1967 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and starred Sidney Poitier as a Philadelphia detective?
In the Heat of the Night
What was the name of the 1964–1965 international exposition held in New York City?
The New York World’s Fair
What famous scientific theory explains how species change over generations through inherited traits and natural selection?
The theory of evolution
What famous 1960s leisure activity involved collecting and trading small cardboard pictures of athletes?
Collecting sports trading cards, especially baseball cards
What major geographical and political boundary divided Europe into Western and Eastern spheres of influence during the Cold War in the 1960s?
The Iron Curtain
Which musical won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1965 and featured the song “The Impossible Dream”?
Man of La Mancha
What was the name of the 1967 agreement that declared outer space, including the Moon, could not be claimed as national territory?
The Outer Space Treaty
What was the name of the 1960s theory that explained how the universe began from a hot, dense state?
The Big Bang theory
Which country won the gold medal in men’s basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics?
The United States