Description | Answer | % Correct |
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Actress born Norma Jeane | Marilyn Monroe | 90%
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Newly Communist country | Red China | 84%
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WWII President | Harry Truman | 75%
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"Camelot" President | Kennedy | 75%
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1963 Dallas assassination | J.F.K. Blown Away | 75%
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Tiananmen Massacre country | China's Under Martial Law | 73%
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Rock and roll musician with gyrating hips | Elvis Presley | 73%
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Republican president | Richard Nixon, Back Again | 71%
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Eisenhower's VP | Richard Nixon | 71%
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Evil Soviet dictator | Joseph Stalin | 71%
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Country with a new queen | England's Got a New Queen | 71%
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New Cuban dictator | Castro | 67%
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1950's President | Eisenhower | 67%
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Communist Asian country ... | North Korea | 65%
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Physicist with crazy hair | Einstein | 63%
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Wall built to divide this city | Berlin | 63%
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"Mania" over this British band | British Beatlemania | 62%
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Problematic Egyptian canal | Trouble in the Suez | 62%
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Disease caused by HIV | AIDS | 61%
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That battled this neighboring country | South Korea | 60%
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Anaheim theme park | Disney Land | 59%
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Hippie musical festival | Woodstock | 59%
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North Vietnam leader | Ho Chi Minh | 58%
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Salinger novel | The Catcher in the Rye | 58%
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The boob tube | Television | 57%
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President elected in 1980 | Reagan | 57%
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Leader of the Lost Boys of Neverland | Peter Pan | 57%
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Like an A-bomb, but more powerful | H-Bomb | 56%
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Ill-fated invasion of Cuba | Bay of Pigs Invasion | 56%
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Red Scare senator | Joe McCarthy | 56%
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"Joltin" player for the Yankees | Joe DiMaggio | 56%
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Hungarian capital that revolted against the USSR | Budapest | 55%
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Soviet satellite | Sputnik | 55%
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Landing on this celestial body | Moonshot | 55%
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Method of preventing polio | Vaccine | 55%
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Hitchcock hotel movie | Psycho | 54%
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Political scandal uncovered by Woodward and Bernstein | Watergate | 54%
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Movie star who died in a car crash | James Dean | 54%
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Country of Africa that gains independence from Belgium | Belgians in the Congo | 53%
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U.S. State that had a bus boycott | Alabama | 53%
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Country invaded by the USSR | Russians in Afghanistan | 53%
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American actress who married Prince Rainier | Princess Grace | 51%
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"Crickets" singer who died in a plane crash | Buddy Holly | 51%
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Fad hip-twirling toy | Hula Hoops | 51%
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Musical style of the Ramones and the Clash | Punk Rock | 51%
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Musical about Anna and Siam | The King and I | 50%
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Flamboyant pianist | Liberace | 50%
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"Profumo Affair" sex scandal in this country | British Politician Sex | 50%
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Movie about a Roman chariot racer | Ben-Hur | 50%
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Radical Islamic black activist | Malcolm X | 49%
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Animal sent into space | Space Monkey | 48%
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1950's Russian premier | Khruschchev | 47%
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"Old Man and the Sea Author" commits suicide | Hemingway | 47%
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Bubbly blonde movie star | Doris Day | 45%
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La Cosa Nostra | Mafia | 44%
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This New York baseball team actually won | Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team | 43%
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Early white rock & roller | Johnnie Ray | 43%
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WWII movie about a Burmese bridge | Bridge On The River Kwai | 42%
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Singer of "The Twist" | Chubby Checker | 42%
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Time-based rock song by Bill Haley | Rock Around the Clock | 42%
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Movie about T.E. Lawrence | Lawrence of Arabia | 42%
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"Bloc" led by the USSR | Communist Bloc | 40%
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Arkansas city and integration battleground | Little Rock | 39%
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French President | Charles de Gaulle | 39%
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"The Pill" | Birth Control | 39%
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Title of the Irani Supreme Leader | Ayatollah's in Iran | 39%
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"On the Waterfront" actor | Brando | 39%
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Game show with Vanna White | Wheel of Fortune | 39%
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King of the Wild Frontier | Davy Crockett | 38%
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President of Argentina | Juan Perón | 37%
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New drug on urban streets | Crack | 37%
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Husband and wife atomic spies | Rosenbergs | 36%
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Folk singer with a nasally voice | Dylan | 35%
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First American in orbit | John Glenn | 35%
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War of Coke vs Pepsi | Rock and Roller Cola Wars | 35%
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One enchanted Broadway musical | South Pacific | 35%
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Great middleweight boxer | Sugar Ray | 34%
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French actress and sex kitten | Bardot | 34%
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Start of protests in this area controlled by Israeli | Palestine | 34%
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"On the Road" author | Kerouac | 33%
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First U.S. female astronaut | Sally Ride | 33%
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Drug that caused birth defects | Children of Thalidomide | 32%
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Defunct American car company | Studebaker | 31%
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Model of spy plane shot down over Russia | U-2 | 31%
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Ford model that flopped | Edsel is a No-Go | 30%
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Suicide caused by listening to this genre of music | Heavy Metal Suicide | 29%
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This medical waste washes up on the Jersey shore | Hypodermics on the Shores | 26%
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The new pope | Pope Paul | 26%
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Baseball teams relocate here | California Baseball | 25%
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Forced integration of this Southern university | Ole Miss | 25%
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Yankees slugger wins Triple Crown | Mickey Mantle | 25%
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Undefeated heavyweight boxer | Marciano | 24%
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Egyptian strongman | Nasser | 24%
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Nazi criminal caught in Argentina | Eichmann | 24%
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Arkansas playboy and oil heir | Rockefeller | 23%
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The result of deficits | Foreign Debts | 22%
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Middle East where the US intervened | Lebanon | 22%
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"Peter and the Wolf" composer | and Prokofiev | 21%
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Plane hijackings | Terror on the Airline | 21%
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Gossiping anti-Communist radio man | Walter Winchell | 21%
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Sci-fi novel by Robert Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land | 20%
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"Doctor Zhivago" author | Pasternak | 19%
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Pay-to-play radio scandal | Payola | 18%
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Issue raised by "Born on the Fourth of July" | Homeless Vets | 18%
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Successor to the above | Malenkov | 18%
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Site of France's suprise defeat in Vietnam | Dien Bien Phu Falls | 18%
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Philosopher who wasn't condemned to repeat the past | Santayana Goodbye | 17%
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New York subway vigilante | Bernie Goetz | 17%
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This boxer beats Floyd Patterson | Liston beats Patterson | 17%
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Provocative novel by Grace Metalious | Peyton Place | 17%
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Peace-seeking Israeli P.M. | Menachem Begin | 16%
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City in the Korean DMZ | Panmunjom | 16%
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Synthetic fiber invented by DuPont | Dacron | 16%
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Paralyzed black baseball player | Campanella | 15%
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First president of South Korea | Syngman Rhee | 13%
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Jewish Red Scare prosecutor | Roy Cohn | 13%
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Italian maestro | Toscanini | 13%
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1958 serial killer | Starkweather Homicide | 12%
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Influential Chinese politician | Zhou Enlai | 12%
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