1954
Age 10
Age 10
This ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States declared segregation to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This politician was elected president in 1960.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This historic act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 aimed to remove discriminatory barriers to voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This grandson of Carole Asher was born in 1999.
Who is Ethan Dolph
This politician was sworn in as president in 2009.
Who is Barack Obama?
This well known fantasy novel, later followed by sequels and made into films, was published in 1954
What is the Lord of the Rings?
The 1960 Summer Olympics were held in this city.
What is Rome, Italy?
This Muslim minister and civil rights activist was killed in New York in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
An impeachment trial of this US President began in 1999.
Who is President Bill Clinton?
This athlete set the world record for the 100 m run at 9.58 s in 2009.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954.
Before 1954 the pledge ended with "One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
What is "Under God"?
This widely read and novel by Harper Lee was published in 1960.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
This musical set in Austria debuted in 1965
What is the Sound of Music?
This object in space regained status as a planet in 1999.
What is Pluto?
This virtual currency was created in 2009.
What is Bitcoin?
A vaccine for this virus was first administered to children in 1954, lowering the incidence of the virus from 18 per 100,000 to 2 per 100,000.
What is polio?
The FDA approved this medicine for commercial production, a world first, in 1960.
What is the birth control pill?
This 630 ft tall structure was completed in Missouri in 1965.
What is the St. Louis Arch?
The first Legoland outside of Europe opened in this state in 1999.
What is California?
This part of an iconic giant statue in New York City was reopened to the public in 1999.
What is the crown of the Statue of Liberty?
What is the kidney?
This was the minimum wage in 1960.
What is $1.00 per hour?
Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson's discovery of cosmic background radiation visually confirmed this scientific theory in 1965.
What is "The Big Bang"?
This science fiction film about people trapped in a simulated reality debuted in 1999.
What is The Matrix?
This author was knighted by the Queen of England in 2009.
Who is Terry Pratchett?