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Who was the famous gangster and mobster who rose to prominence during the Prohibition era?
Al Capone
Which American outlaw couple was ambushed and killed by law enforcement officers in 1934?
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944?
D-Day
Who became the Queen of the United Kingdom in 1952?
Queen Elizabeth II
What was the name of the first manned mission to land on the Moon, which took place in 1969?
Apollo 11
Who was the famous American pilot who made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927?
Charles Lindbergh
What was the name of the infamous event on October 29, 1929, when the United States stock market crashed, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression?
Black Tuesday
Which organization was founded in 1945 to promote international cooperation and prevent future world wars?
The United Nations
What was the name of the first satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957?
Sputnik 1
Which African-American athlete won four gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City?
Jesse Owens
What was the name of the iconic silent film that starred Charlie Chaplin as a tramp character?
The Kid
Who was the British monarch during the 1930s, known for his abdication in 1936?
King Edward VIII
Which iconic actress starred in the film "Casablanca," released in 1942?
Ingrid Bergman
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his contributions to the literature of Latin America?
Ernest Hemingway
What was the name of the American counterculture movement that emerged in the 1960s, advocating for peace, love, and social change?
The Hippie Movement
Which iconic landmark in New York City was completed in 1924 and became the tallest man-made structure in the world at the time?
The Chrysler Building
Who won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1939 with their film "Gone with the Wind"?
David Selznick
Which event in 1947 marked the division of British India into two separate nations, India and Pakistan?
Partition of India
Which novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951, became a classic coming-of-age story?
The Catcher in the Rye
Who was the first human to travel into space, orbiting the Earth in 1961?
Yuri Gagarin
Who was the American athlete who won four gold medals in track and field events at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
Eric Liddell
Which famous Disney animated film, featuring the first-ever full-length Technicolor sequence, was released in 1937?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Which superhero first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, but became widely popular in the 1940s?
Superman
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during most of the 1950s?
Nikita Khrushchev
Which African country gained independence from Belgium in 1960?
Democratic Republic of the Congo