Transcript The Sixties Quiz - Rockingham Memories

The Sixties Quiz
A Special Feature
For Us
Baby Boomers
The sixties were jammed-packed with huge events
that helped shape the lives and thoughts of 76 million
baby boomers. This quiz should help give you an idea
of what made the sixties so special for us.
Can you identify which of the following events
occurred in the sixties (1960-1969)? Respond to each,
one at a time; "Yes" if you think it happened in the
sixties; "No" if you think not, and we'll provide the
correct answer right on the spot. Don't worry, we're
not keeping score here.
This is just for funzies. If you're a boomer, just sit
back and enjoy some of the memories of the “good
old days”. If you’re not a boomer, enjoy anyhow!
1) Dwight Eisenhower had a heart
attack while serving as president?
• No
• That happened
during his first
term in the
fifties.
2) Rebels backed by the U.S.
attempted a coup to overthrow
Fidel Castro?
• Yes, you’re
correct
• Known as the
‘Bay of Pigs’
invasion in April
of 1961, Cuban
armed forces
trained by
Eastern Block
nations defeated
the combatants
in three days.
3) President Kennedy challenged his
country to land a man on the moon
before the end of the decade?
• Yes
• On May 25, 1961,
President John F.
Kennedy announced
before a special joint
session of Congress
the dramatic and
ambitious goal of
sending an American
safely to the Moon
before the end of the
decade.
4) Marilyn Monroe died?
• Yes
• Marilyn Monroe
died August 4,
1962 at the age
of 36. The
coroner
reported the
probable cause
of death as
suicide from a
lethal dose of
barbiturates.
5) Johnny Carson began a 30-year
reign as host of the "Tonight Show“?
• Correct
• Originally
hosted by Jack
Parr (1954) and
then Steve Allen
(1957) Johnny
took over in
October 1, 1962
and lasted until
May 22, 1992.
6) Elvis had his first #1
hit?
• If you said No
you got is right!
• You may not
have even
known that
Elvis’ first #1 hit
was Heartbreak
Hotel April 21,
1956.
7) Elvis went into the
Army?
• No is correct again!
•
Elvis Aron Presley
entered the United
States Army at
Memphis, Tennessee,
on March 24, 1958, and
then spent three days
at the Fort Chaffee,
Arkansas, Reception
Station. He left active
duty at Fort Dix, New
Jersey, on March 5,
1960, and received his
discharge from the
Army Reserve on
March 23, 1964. His
MOS was officially a
tank gunner.
8) Dr. Christian Barnard performed
the world's first heart transplant in
South Africa?
• Yes
• He performed the
world's first human
heart transplant
operation on 3
December 1967, in an
operation assisted by
his brother, Marius
Barnard; the operation
lasted nine hours and
used a team of thirty
people. The patient,
Louis Washkansky, was
a 54-year-old grocer,
suffering from diabetes
and incurable heart
disease.
9) President Kennedy
was assassinated?
• Yes
• President John F.
Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas,
Texas, at 12:30 p.m.
CST on November 22,
1963, while on a
political trip. How
could any of us forget.
It was the same Friday
night that Rockingham
& Hamlet played for
the championship.
10) Bobby Kennedy was
assassinated?
• Correct
•
On June 4, 1968, Robert F.
Kennedy, the younger brother of
President John F. Kennedy, won
the California Democratic Primary.
Shortly after midnight on June 5,
1968, Kennedy gave a victory
speech at the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles, California. After
finishing his triumphant address,
Kennedy exited the ballroom and
traveled through the kitchen in
order to reach a press conference.
In the kitchen, Sirhan Sirhan shot
Kennedy three times. An
ambulance took Kennedy to
Central Receiving Hospital and
then to Good Samaritan Hospital
for surgery. After hours of surgery,
Kennedy remained in critical
condition. On June 6, 1968, at 1:44
am PDT, Kennedy died.
11) Martin Luther King
was assassinated?
• Yes would be the correct
answer
• At 6:01 p.m. on April 4,
1968, a shot rang out. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
who had been standing on
the balcony of his room at
the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, TN, now lay
sprawled on the balcony's
floor. A gaping wound
covered a large portion of
his jaw and neck. A great
man who had spent
thirteen years of his life
dedicating himself to
nonviolent protest had
been felled by a sniper's
bullet.
12) Alabama Governor George
Wallace was shot and paralyzed while
running for president?
• Nope – Wrong Decade!
• On 13 January 1972,
Wallace declared
himself a candidate for
President of the United
States. Wallace was
shot four times by
Arthur Bremer while
campaigning in Laurel,
Maryland, on May 15,
1972, at a time when
he was receiving high
ratings in the opinion
polls
13) Richard Nixon lost the
presidential election by a razor-thin
margin?
• Yes
• Nixon lost the election
1960 narrowly, with
Kennedy ahead by only
120,000 votes (0.2%) in
the popular vote. There
were charges of vote
fraud in Texas and
Illinois; Nixon supporters
unsuccessfully
challenged results in both
states as well as nine
others. After all the court
battles and recounts
were done, Kennedy had
a greater number of
electoral votes than he
held after Election Day.
14) Richard Nixon won the
presidential election?
• Yes, you’re right here,
too
• In a three-way race in
1968 between Nixon,
Humphrey, and
independent candidate
George Wallace,
Richard M. Nixon
defeated Humphrey by
nearly 500,000 votes to
become the 37th
President of the United
States on November 5,
1968.
15) Richard Nixon was forced to
resign from office in disgrace?
• Nope – Wrong decade
• On Friday August 9, 1974,
under threat of impeachment,
Richard Nixon became the
only president in American
history to resign from office.
His resignation from political
office was to be permanent,
but he remained in the public
eye as a prolific author and
one of the nation's most
cogent commentators on
international politics. He
even served as an informal
adviser to many of his
successors.
16) Three U.S. astronauts died in
a fire on the launch pad?
• Sadly the answer is
Yes
• Three US Astronauts,
Gus Grissom, Ed White
and Roger Chaffee are
killed on the launch
pad on January 27,
1967 during a
simulated launch when
a flash fire engulfs
their command module
during testing for the
first Apollo/Saturn
mission. They are the
first U.S. astronauts to
die in the line of duty.
17) Alan Shepard became the
first American to fly into space?
• Yes
• Alan Shepard hit the
world headlines on May
5th, 1961, when he
became the first
American in space in
the tiny Mercury space
capsule called
Freedom 7. He was one
of the original seven
astronauts, who have
become known as the
"Mercury 7".
18) John Glenn orbited the earth
three times in the "Friendship 7”?
• Yes
•
He became the fifth person in
space and the first American to
orbit the Earth, aboard
Friendship 7 on February 20,
1962, on the "Mercury Atlas 6"
mission, circling the globe
three times during a flight
lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes,
and 23 seconds. During the
mission there was concern
that his heat shield had failed
and that his craft would burn
up on re-entry, but he made his
splashdown safely. Glenn was
celebrated as a national hero,
and received a ticker-tape
parade reminiscent of
Lindbergh.
19) The U.S. landed a man on the
moon?
• Yes indeed
•
Launched from Florida on July 16, the
third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo
Program (and the first G-type
mission) was crewed by Commander
Neil Alden Armstrong, Command
Module Pilot Michael Collins, and
Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene
"Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. On July 20,
Armstrong and Aldrin landed in the
Sea of Tranquility and became the
first humans to walk on the Moon.
Their landing craft, Eagle, spent 21
hours and 31 minutes on the lunar
surface while Collins orbited above in
the command ship, Columbia. The
three astronauts returned to Earth
with 47.5 pounds (21.55 kilograms) of
lunar rocks and landed in the Pacific
Ocean on July 24
20) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
warns the U.S., "History is on our
side. We will bury you!“?
• Nope – Wrong Decade
Again
•
Soviet premier Nikita
Khrushchev famously used
an expression generally
translated into English as
"We will bury you!" ("Мы
вас похороним!",
transliterated as My vas
pokhoronim!) while
addressing Western
ambassadors at a
reception at the Polish
embassy in Moscow on
November 18, 1956
21) An American spy plane was shot
down over the Soviet Union, giving
the Russian leader all the reason he
needed to cancel disarmament talks
with the U.S.?
• Yes
• On May 1, 1960, a
U-2 spy plane
piloted by Francis
Gary Powers of the
United States was
shot down near
Svedlovsk, Soviet
Union. This event
had a lasting
negative impact on
U.S. - U.S.S.R.
relations.
22) 250,000 protestors marched
against the war in Washington, D.C.?
• Yes
• November 15, 1969 The 'Mobilization'
peace demonstration
draws an estimated
250,000 in
Washington for the
largest anti-war
protest in U.S. history.
23) Four protestors were shot and killed by
members of the National Guard during a
demonstration against the war at Kent
State University?
•
No – This was a build-up
of events that happened
in the 60’s
•
The Kent State shootings
– also known as the May 4
massacre or Kent State
massacre – occurred at
Kent State University in
the city of Kent, Ohio, and
involved the shooting of
unarmed college students
by members of the Ohio
National Guard on
Monday, May 4, 1970. The
guardsmen fired 67
rounds over a period of 13
seconds, killing four
students and wounding
nine others, one of whom
suffered permanent
paralysis.
24) The U.S. surgeon general declared that
cigarette smoking, a habit "enjoyed" by
60% of the adult population, is a major
health hazard?
• Yes
• 1964 --Surgeon
General Luther L.
Terry (1961-1965)
issues Smoking
and Health, the
first Surgeon
General's report to
receive widespread
media and public
attention (January
11)
25) Ted Kennedy made a run for the
presidency, but didn't get very far?
• No
• Kennedy finally ran for the
Democratic nomination in the
1980 presidential election by
launching an unusual,
insurgent campaign against
the incumbent Carter, a
member of his own party. A
midsummer 1978 poll had
shown Democrats preferring
Kennedy over Carter by a 5-to3 margin. During spring and
summer 1979, as Kennedy
deliberated whether to run,
Carter was not intimidated
despite his 28 percent
approval rating, saying
publicly: "If Kennedy runs, I'll
whip his ass."
26) The National Guard was required
to oversee the integration of the
University of Mississippi?
• Yes
• In late September 1962,
after a legal battle, an
African-American man
named James Meredith
attempted to enroll at the
University of Mississippi.
Chaos briefly broke out
on the Ole Miss campus,
with riots ending in two
dead, hundreds wounded
and many others
arrested, after the
Kennedy administration
called out some 31,000
National Guardsmen and
other federal forces to
enforce order.
27) Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst
was kidnapped by the so-called
Symbionese Liberation Army?
• Nope – Wrong Decade
Again
•
The granddaughter of publishing
magnate William Randolph
Hearst and great-granddaughter
of millionaire George Hearst,
Patty Hearst gained notoriety in
1974 when, following her
kidnapping by the Symbionese
Liberation Army (SLA), she
ultimately joined her captors in
furthering their cause.
Apprehended after having taken
part in a bank robbery with
other SLA members, Hearst was
imprisoned for almost two years
before her sentence was
commuted by President Jimmy
Carter. She was later granted a
presidential pardon by President
Bill Clinton in his last official act
before leaving office.
28) Elvis died?
• Nope – Wrong
Decade Again
• Elvis Presley died
August 16, 1977
(aged 42) at
Graceland in
Memphis,
Tennessee, of an
apparent overdose
of several
prescription drugs
29) The president declares
war on poverty in the U.S.?
• Yes
•
January 8, 1964: President
Lyndon B. Johnson declares
war, this time on poverty.
During his State of the Union
address, Johnson outlined
ideas which he claimed
would put an end to poverty.
The Great Society he
envisioned was to have the
federal government taking a
larger role in social welfare
programs. His ideas were an
extension of Franklin D.
Roosevelt's New Deal and
Four Freedoms from decades
earlier.
30) The U.S. nearly went to war
against the Soviet Union because of
the presence of Russian nuclear
missiles in Cuba?
• Yes
• The Cuban Missile
Crisis was a
confrontation between
the Soviet Union, Cuba
and the United States
in October 1962, during
the Cold War that
would have resulted in
war between Russia
and the United States
had Russia not agreed
to remove missiles
from Cuba.
31) Charles Manson and members of
his cult brutally murdered actress
Sharon Tate and several others?
• Yes
• On the night of Aug. 8,
1969, members of cult
leader Charles
Manson's "Family"
entered the Cielo Drive
home of Roman
Polanski and murdered
his pregnant wife,
Sharon Tate, in the
name of "Helter
Skelter," his twisted
vision of apocalypse
that he had lifted from
The Beatles' White
Album
32) Abbey Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale, and
Jerry Rubin are among the "Chicago 7" who were
arrested during violent demonstrations at the
Democratic National Convention?
• Yes
•
The Chicago Seven was a group of seven men
who were arrested at the 1968 Democratic
National Convention in Chicago and charged
with conspiracy to incite a riot. The charge
arose from an anti-Vietnam War
demonstration outside the convention hall
that was broken up by Chicago police. On
February 18, 1970, after a raucous trial
before Judge Julius Hoffman, a jury acquitted
all seven defendants -- Abbie Hoffman, Jerry
Rubin, Dave Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom
Hayden, Lee Weiner, and John Froines -- but
found five of them guilty of crossing state
boundaries with intent to incite a riot, a
violation of a recently enacted federal statute
that many authorities considered
unconstitutional. Judge Hoffman sentenced
the five to five years in prison and all seven
and their counsel, William Kunstler, to short
terms for contempt of court. All convictions
on the federal count were overturned on
appeal.
33) "Airport," "Jaws," and "The
Exorcist" entice and thrill a boomer
audience hungry
for exciting entertainment?
Nope – All In The 70’s
Airport - 1970
Jaws – 1975
The Exorcist - 1973
34) Dr. Martin Luther King, preaching nonviolence, offered his "I Have a Dream"
speech before a audience of 200,000 in
Washington, D.C.?
• Yes
•
"I Have a Dream" is the famous
name given to the sixteen
minute public speech by Martin
Luther King, Jr., in which he
called for racial equality and an
end to discrimination. King's
delivery of the speech on
August 28, 1963, from the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial during
the March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom, was a
defining moment of the
American Civil Rights
Movement. Delivered to over
200,000 civil rights supporters
35) Huge and horrible race riots in Detroit
surpassed those in the Watts section of Los
Angeles two years earlier, in terms of both
financial cost and lives lost. Forty-one people died;
Detroit's mayor said, "It looks like Berlin in 1945." ?
• Yes
•
The Detroit 1967 race riot or
the 1967 Detroit rebellion
was a multiracial civil
disturbance in Detroit,
Michigan that began in the
early morning hours of
Sunday, July 23, 1967. To
help end the disturbance,
Governor George Romney
ordered the Michigan
National Guard into Detroit,
and President Lyndon B.
Johnson sent in United
States Army troops. The
result was forty-three dead,
467 injured, over 7,200
arrests and more than 2,000
buildings burned down.
36) The first Super Bowl
was played?
• Yes
• The First AFL-NFL World
Championship Game in
professional American
football, later known as
Super Bowl I and referred
to in some contemporary
reports as the Supergame,
was played on January 15,
1967 at the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum in Los
Angeles, California. The
NFL’s Green Bay Packers
beat the AFL’s Kansas City
Chiefs 35-10
37) The Twist became the
newest dance craze?
• Yes
• The song "The Twist" was
written by Hank Ballard in
1959. He and his boys
made up some twisting
movements for the boys to
do while playing music.
Then in 1960, Chubby
Checkers' twist record
reached #1 on US charts
and made the Twist (rock
and roll dance) famous.
37) The Twist became the
newest dance craze?
• Yes
• The song "The Twist" was
written by Hank Ballard in
1959. He and his boys
made up some twisting
movements for the boys to
do while playing music.
Then in 1960, Chubby
Checkers' twist record
reached #1 on US charts
and made the Twist (rock
and roll dance) famous.
38) The Beatles led the "British
invasion," landed in New York, and
changed rock music forever?
• This is a Classic
’60’s YES
• The British
Invasion is a term
used mainly in the
United States to
describe the large
number of rock and
roll, beat and pop
performers from
the United
Kingdom who
became popular in
the U.S.A. from
1964 to 1966.
39) The women's liberation movement
took off with the publishing of "The
Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan?
Yes
The Feminine Mystique, published
February 25, 1963, is a book written
by Betty Friedan. According to The
New York Times obituary of Friedan
in 2006, it “ignited the contemporary
women's movement in 1963 and as a
result permanently transformed the
social fabric of the United States
and countries around the world” and
“is widely regarded as one of the
most influential nonfiction books of
the 20th century”.
40) Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's
single-season home run record?
• Yes
• In 1961, Roger Maris
hit his 61st home run
of the season and
broke a record that no
one thought would ever
be duplicated, much
less broken. Babe
Ruth's record of 60
home runs had stood
since 1927. Historians
describe that 1927
Yankees squad as one
of the greatest ever.
Ruth's feat of 60 home
runs made that season
even more memorable.
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41) Disneyworld,
a huge theme park
outside of Orlando, opened to the
public?
•
Yes
•
The Walt Disney World Resort is the
world's largest and most visited
recreational resort, covering a
25,000-acre (39 sq mi; 100 km2)
area southwest of Orlando, Florida,
USA. The resort encompasses four
theme parks, two water parks, 24
on-site themed resort hotels
(excluding 8 that are on-site, but
not owned by the Walt Disney
Company), two health spas and
fitness centers, and other
recreational venues and
entertainment. It opened on
October 1, 1971 with only the Magic
Kingdom theme park, and has since
added Epcot (October 1, 1982),
Disney's Hollywood Studios (May 1,
1989), and Disney's Animal Kingdom
(April 22, 1998).
42) The landmark Supreme Court
decision, Roe vs. Wade, gave women
the legal right to have an aobrtion?
• Nope – Next Decade
• Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113
(January 22, 1973), was a
landmark decision by the
United States Supreme
Court on the issue of
abortion. The Court held
that a woman's right to an
abortion is determined by
the stage of pregnancy,
and the state cannot
prohibit abortion before
viability.
43) The minimum voting age in the
U.S. is officially lowered from 21 to
18?
• Nope – Again, Next
Decade
• The Twenty-sixth
Amendment (Amendment
XXVI) to the United
States Constitution
standardized the voting
age to 18. It was adopted
in response to student
activism against the
Vietnam War and to
partially overrule the
Supreme Court's decision
in Oregon v. Mitchell. It
was adopted on July 1,
1971.
44) With hundreds of American
soldiers dying every week, the "troop
strength" in Vietnam increased to
475,000?
• Yes
•
By year's end in 1967, U.S.
troop levels reach 463,000
with 16,000 combat deaths to
date. By this time, over a
million American soldiers
have rotated through
Vietnam, with length of
service for draftees being one
year, and most Americans
serving in support units. An
estimated 90,000 soldiers
from North Vietnam infiltrated
into the South via the Ho Chi
Minh trail in 1967. Overall Viet
Cong/NVA troop strength
throughout South Vietnam is
now estimated up to 300,000
men.
45) Ted Kennedy nearly died in a
plane crash?
• Yes
•
On June 19, 1964, Kennedy was a
passenger in a private Aero
Commander 680 from
Washington to Massachusetts
that crashed on final approach
into an apple orchard in bad
weather, in the western
Massachusetts town of
Southampton. The pilot and
Edward Moss, one of Kennedy's
aides, were killed. Kennedy was
pulled from the wreckage by
fellow Senator Birch E. Bayh II
and spent months in hospital
recovering from a severe back
injury, a punctured lung, broken
ribs and internal bleeding. He
suffered chronic back pain from
the landing for the rest of his life.
46) Ted Kennedy drove his car off a
bridge, killing the passenger, Mary
Jo Kopechne?
•
On July 18, 1969, Kopechne
• Yes Again
attended a party on Chappaquiddick
Island, off the coast of Martha's
Vineyard, Massachusetts, held in
honor of the Boiler Room Girls. It
was the fourth such reunion of the
Robert Kennedy campaign workers.
Kopechne reportedly left the party
at 11:15 p.m. with Robert's brother
Ted Kennedy, after he — according
to his own account — offered to
drive her to catch the last ferry back
to Edgartown, where she was
staying. She did not tell her close
friends at the party that she was
leaving and she left her purse and
keys behind. Kennedy drove the
1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a
narrow, unlit bridge without
guardrails that was not on the route
to Edgartown. It landed in Poucha
Pond and overturned in the water.
Kennedy extricated himself from the
vehicle and survived, but Kopechne
did not.
47) Under the direction of the Soviet Union, East
Berliners were trapped by a 26-mile long cement
wall, effectively imprisoning its residents?
• Yes
•
The Berlin Wall (German:
Berliner Mauer) was
constructed by the German
Democratic Republic (GDR,
East Germany), in 1961, that
completely cut off the city of
West Berlin, separating it
from East Germany
(including East Berlin). The
barrier included guard
towers placed along large
concrete walls, which
circumscribed a wide area
(later known as the "death
strip") that contained antivehicle trenches, "fakir
beds" and other defenses.
48) Hawaii became the 50th state
of the union?
• Nope
•
On March 12th, 1959, U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
signed the Hawaii Statehood Bill
into law at a White House
ceremony, but the process of
admission was not over. "Under
this legislation," said Ike, "the
citizens of Hawaii will soon decide
whether their islands shall
become our 50th state." Voters
still had to elect new officials and
decide on whether to accept all of
the bill's provisions.
On June 27 of that year, a
referendum was held asking
residents of Hawaii to vote on
accepting the statehood bill.
The state was admitted to the
Union on August 21, 1959.
49) Israel clobbered its Arab
neighbors who wanted to destroy it in
the "Six Day War.“?
• Yes
• The Six-Day War of June 5–
10, 1967 was a war between
Israel and the neighboring
states of Egypt, Jordan, and
Syria. The Arab states of
Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan,
Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria
also contributed troops and
arms. At the war's end,
Israel had gained control of
the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza
Strip, the West Bank, East
Jerusalem, and the Golan
Heights. The results of the
war affect the geopolitics of
the region to this day.
50) Hugh Hefner published the first
issue of his controversial magazine,
"Playboy.“?
• The first issue, in December 1953,
• No
was undated, as Hefner was unsure
there would be a second. He
produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen.
The first centerfold was Marilyn
Monroe, although the picture used
originally was taken for a calendar
rather than for Playboy. The first
issue sold out in weeks. Playboy is an
American men's magazine, founded
in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh
Hefner and his associates, and
funded in part by a $1,000 loan from
Hefner's mother. The magazine has
grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc.,
with a presence in nearly every
medium. Playboy is one of the
world's best known brands. In
addition to the flagship magazine in
the United States, special nationspecific versions of Playboy are
published worldwide.