Do You Actually Know U.S. History?

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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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Do You Actually Know U.S. History?

In what year did President Lyndon Johnson sign the Medicare Act?

What year did Cassius Clay first defeat Sonny Liston?

What year was Malcolm X shot and killed in Harlem?

What year did Ralph Nader publish "Unsafe At Any Speed"?

What year did the Black Panthers form?

What year was the first Rolling Stone magazine published?

What year was Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated?

When was Richard Nixon inaugurated as President?

What year was the first Woodstock music festival held?

What year did Andrew Carnegie create Carnegie Steel?

What year did the U.S. battleship Maine blow up in Cuba?

What year did William McKinley get elected U.S. President?

What year did the first U.S. automobile race occur?

James Naismith invented basketball in what year?

In what year did "The Wall Street Journal" begin publication?