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Final Jeopardy
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
Election
Of 1960
The Space
Race
JFK
Assassination
People
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Cuba is located
approximately 90 miles
from the coast of this
state.
What is Florida?
Many people from
the military
wanted to invade
Cuba to make up
for this disaster.
What is the Bay of
Pigs disaster?
This Cuban led a
communist
revolution in 1959.
Who is Fidel
Castro?
Giving an adversary
what they want or
“giving in” is known as
this term.
What is
Appeasement?
This type of spy
plane was used to
take pictures of the
Cuban missiles.
What is the U-2?
This person lost to
JFK in 1960 in a
very close election.
Who is Richard
Nixon?
This person was
chosen as JFK’s
running mate
because he could
get Southern votes.
Who is Lyndon
Johnson (LBJ)?
This new format
was used for the
first time in the
debates of 1960.
What is television?
Kennedy’s image of
youth, energy, and
optimism was also
known as this.
What is Mystique?
JFK’s candidacy
was controversial
because he was the
first candidate to be
this.
What is Catholic?
This person was
the first man on the
moon.
Who is Neil
Armstrong?
This nation had the
first person in
space.
What is the Soviet
Union (USSR,
Russia)?
We went to the
Moon primarily to
do this.
What is show our
superiority (better
than) over USSR?
This program was
highlighted by
landing on the
Moon.
What is Apollo?
This person was the
first man in space.
Who is Yuri
Gagarin?
This person was
found guilty of
killing JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey
Oswald?
This is a secret plot
to commit an
illegal act.
What is a
conspiracy?
This is the
intentional murder
of a ruler or leader
of a nation.
What is an
assassination?
This was the
building that LHO
shot from.
What is the Texas
School Book
Depository?
Many conspiracy
theorists believe the
shot that killed
Kennedy actually
came from this area.
What is the “grassy
knoll?”
This person was
JFK’s close advisor
and his Attorney
General
Who is Robert
(Bobby) Kennedy?
This Chief Justice
led the investigation
into Kennedy’s
murder.
Who is Earl
Warren?
This Russian was
leader during the
Cuban missile
crisis.
Who is Nikita
Khrushchev?
This person was
the first American
in space.
Who is John
Glenn?
This person shot and
killed Lee Harvey
Oswald before he had
a chance to talk to the
police.
Who is Jack
Ruby?
The competition
between the US and
the USSR to new
“firsts” in space was
known as this.
What is the Space
Race?
This strategy of not
letting any ships
through was used
by Kennedy during
the missile crisis.
What is a
blockade?
The bullet that
seemingly changed
directions in mid-air
and was found in nearperfect condition was
called this.
What is the “magic
bullet?”
This was one of
the projects that
made the Apollo
moon landings
possible.
What is Mercury
or Gemini?
This film is the
most complete
visual record of
what happened in
JFK’s shooting.
What is the
Zapruder film?
Make your wager
This Apollo mission
featured Armstrong’s
Moon landing (1) in
which he said these
famous words (2x).
What is Apollo 11,
where he said “one
small step for man,
one giant leap for
mankind?”