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- 1.
In what year did President Lyndon Johnson sign the Medicare Act?
- A.
1970
- B.
1964
- C.
1976
- D.
1955
Correct Answer
B. 1964 -
- 2.
What year did Cassius Clay first defeat Sonny Liston?
- A.
1964
- B.
1850
- C.
1914
- D.
1865
Correct Answer
A. 1964 -
- 3.
What year was Malcolm X shot and killed in Harlem?
- A.
1986
- B.
1974
- C.
1899
- D.
1965
Correct Answer
D. 1965 -
- 4.
What year did Ralph Nader publish "Unsafe At Any Speed"?
- A.
1965
- B.
1850
- C.
1830
- D.
1858
Correct Answer
A. 1965 -
- 5.
What year did the Black Panthers form?
- A.
1897
- B.
1911
- C.
1862
- D.
1966
Correct Answer
D. 1966 -
- 6.
What year was the first Rolling Stone magazine published?
- A.
1911
- B.
1998
- C.
1967
- D.
1954
Correct Answer
C. 1967 -
- 7.
What year was Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated?
- A.
1970
- B.
1956
- C.
1941
- D.
1968
Correct Answer
D. 1968 -
- 8.
When was Richard Nixon inaugurated as President?
- A.
1902
- B.
1905
- C.
1969
- D.
1904
Correct Answer
C. 1969 -
- 9.
What year was the first Woodstock music festival held?
- A.
1978
- B.
1963
- C.
1969
- D.
1985
Correct Answer
C. 1969 -
- 10.
What year did Andrew Carnegie create Carnegie Steel?
- A.
1973
- B.
1951
- C.
1801
- D.
1899
Correct Answer
D. 1899 -
- 11.
What year did the U.S. battleship Maine blow up in Cuba?
- A.
1898
- B.
1492
- C.
1973
- D.
1951
Correct Answer
A. 1898 -
- 12.
What year did William McKinley get elected U.S. President?
- A.
1976
- B.
1896
- C.
1979
- D.
1959
Correct Answer
B. 1896 -
- 13.
What year did the first U.S. automobile race occur?
- A.
1895
- B.
1969
- C.
1989
- D.
1825
Correct Answer
A. 1895 -
- 14.
James Naismith invented basketball in what year?
- A.
1891
- B.
1969
- C.
1956
- D.
1990
Correct Answer
A. 1891 -
- 15.
In what year did "The Wall Street Journal" begin publication?
- A.
1976
- B.
1889
- C.
1973
- D.
1940
Correct Answer
B. 1889 -
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