1940's and before
The United States formally entered WW2, shortly after Japan bombed this American naval port.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Who is Elvis Presley?
The United States panicked during the 1960s space race after the launch of this Russian satellite
What is Sputnik?
Bobby Orr was photographed in a picture simply known as "The Goal" when he scored to make this team Stanley Cup champions in 1970.
Who are the Boston Bruins?
"Thriller" was this artist's most popular album, released in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
It was in 1997 when this golfer became the first African American player to win the Masters.
Who is Tiger Woods?
"The Office" revolves around coworkers at this paper company in Scranton PA.
What is Dunder Mifflin?
This steamship was dubbed unsinkable.
What is the Titanic?
This baseball player married Marilyn Monroe in 1954.
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
This assassin killed JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This was John Travolta's character's first name in Saturday Night Fever.
What is Tony?
He was one of the biggest actors of the 80's going to a galaxy far far away and to a temple of doom.
Who is Harrison Ford?
This was the first Disney animated movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
What is Beauty and The Beast?
This video uploading and streaming service was first introduced in 2005, where it told "you" to be the star.
What is YouTube?
This was the deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
She refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955 Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This outdoor musical festival took place on a farm in upstate New York.
What is Woodstock?
This was the name of the boat in "Jaws"?
What is "The Orca?"
In 1989, Nintendo released this, widely considered to be the first hand-held video game console.
What is the Game Boy?
She sang the award winning theme song to Titanic.
Who is Celine Dion?
This category 5 hurricane struck the U.S. in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This actor rose to fame in the silent film era.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
This television game show first aired in 1956, and is still running today.
What is the Price is Right?
Norman Bates was the troubled main character in this famous Alfred Hitchcock movie.
What is Pyscho?
This is the all time, biggest selling album of the 1970s rock band Kiss.
What is "Alive"?
This NFL team won the most super bowls out of any team in the 1980's.
Who are the San Francisco 49ers?
This popular, trauma inducing game for kids urged players to sneak into the kitchen without waking a sleeping parent.
What is "Don't Wake Daddy?"
Taylor Swift released this album at the end of 2022, but it quickly became the highest selling of the year.
What is Midnights?
This was the common warfare tactic during World War 1.
What is trench warfare?
This vaccine led to a dramatic drop in cases of a dangerous virus in the mid-20th century.
What is the polio vaccine?
This was a daring and revealing new fashion trend for women invented by a famous British designer.
What is the miniskirt?
This cartoon, featuring a grump, orange cat, was first released in 1978.
What is Garfield?
Elliot gives E.T. this type of candy in E.T. the Extraterrestrial
What are Reese's Pieces?
This football star was accused of killing two people in 1995, but was eventually found not criminally guilty because of a glove.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
This toy was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2000.
What is LEGO?
This was the name given to the 1620 document creating a self-governing body politic in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He was the first explorer to climb Mt. Everest.
What is Sir Edmund Hillary?
This band arrived in the United States from England in 1964, and made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Who are the Beatles?
The crew upon the Apollo 13 space flight said this to mission control when there was a leak in their oxygen reserves.
What is "Houston, we have a problem?"
This prime minister of the United Kingdom was nicknamed the "Iron Lady" and was very close with President Ronald Reagan.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This actress had a hairstyle inspired by her character on this 1990's sitcom, one of the highest rated sitcoms of all time.
Who is Jennifer Anniston?
What is the first iPad?
This was a period of major industrialization and innovation that began in Great Britain in the mid-18th century and spread worldwide, transforming economies from agrarian to machine-based manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
He was a legendary country singer, cowboy, and actor in the 1950s, and starred in a TV show with his wife Dale Evans and his horse Trigger.
Who is Roy Rogers?
These were invented in 1966 and revolutionized baby care.
What are Pampers?
This horse won the triple crown in 1973, becoming the first to do it since 1948.
Who is Secretariat?
The term "Nothing but net" was first used in a McDonalds commercial where Magic Johnson played this other star in a game of horse for a Big Mac.
Who is Larry Bird?
This Nintendo game was released in 1999 and featured various game characters fighting.
What is Super Smash Bros.?
Will Smith slapped the face of this comedian after he made a joke about his wife's hair.
Who is Chris Rock?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the term given to the period in the 1950s of intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States during the 1950s.
What is McCarthyism/Red Scare?
This was a filed attempt by the CIA to assassinated Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This event marked a chaotic end to the Vietnam war.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
"If you build it, they will come" was made famous by this movie.
What is Field of Dreams?
What is the World Wide Web?
This was the name of the gorilla that was shot in 2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Who is Harambe?