Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1960-1979

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 119 times
The average score is 17 of 20

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1969	Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to set foot on this place	The Moon	99%
1976	Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found this computer company in a Los Altos garage	Apple	98%
1975	This Steven Spielberg movie makes people terrified of swimming in the ocean	Jaws	98%
1968	This civil rights leader is assassinated in a Memphis motel	Martin Luther King Jr.	98%
1974	Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency due to his involvement in this scandal	{Watergate} Scandal	98%
1962	A nuclear war almost starts with the USSR over a stand-off of missiles on this island	Cuba	97%
1977	George Lucas releases the first of these influential science fiction movies	Star Wars	97%
1961	The U.S. begins to send military personal to fight communists in this country's civil war	Vietnam	96%
1963	John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in this city	Dallas	95%
1964	The British Invasion starts when this band visits the U.S.	The Beatles	95%
1979	A U.S. embassy in this country is taken hostage, also indirectly fueling the oil crisis	Iran	93%
1971	This cult leader is found guilty for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders	Charles Manson	86%
1978	This "charismatic" serial killer is caught and arrested in Florida	Ted Bundy	74%
1972	This company releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game	Atari	71%
1973	This Chicago skyscraper becomes the tallest in the world for 25 years	Sears Tower	70%
1966	This band releases their critically acclaimed album, Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	61%
1960	Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union while flying this spy plane	U-2	60%
1967	This team wins the first Super Bowl, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs	Green Bay Packers	58%
1970	4 students protesting the U.S. incursion into Cambodia are killed at this Ohio university	Kent State	58%
1965	Construction on this St. Louis, Missouri landmark is completed	Gateway Arch	54%