1962 Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
Western Samoa becomes independent from what country?
A: New Zealand.
NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins praises U.S.
President John F. Kennedy's what?
A: "personal role" in advancing civil rights.
Who does Pope John XXIII excommunicate?
A: Fidel Castro.
What does New York City introduce?
A: A subway train that operates without a crew on board.
What does the Organization of American States do?
A: They suspend Cuba's membership.
Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed, when
what happened?
A: When their famous 7-person
pyramid collapses during a performance in
Detroit.
The United States embargo against what country is
announced?
A: Cuba.
The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom becomes the first
paper to print a what?
A: A color supplement.
The United States Government bans all what?
A: U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.
A coal mine explosion in Saarland, West Germany kills how
many miners?
A: 299.
Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is
exchanged for whom?
A: Captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin.
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev first
dance together in a
Royal Ballet performance of what?
A: Giselle in London.
The S. S. Kresge Company opens its first what, in Garden
City, Michigan?
A: Kmart discount store.
Wilt Chamberlain scores how many points in a single
National Basketball Association basketball game?
A: 100 points.
Who Bob Dylan releases his what?
A: His debut album, Bob Dylan, in the United States.
What fast food restaurant is founded by Glen Bell in
Downey, California?
A: Taco Bell.
At the 34th Academy Awards ceremony, what film wins Best
Picture?
A: West Side Story.
The Century 21 Exposition World's Fair opens where?
A: In Seattle.
The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the what?
A: The Moon.
Twelve East Germans escape via a what?
A: A tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
Juan Carlos of Spain marries whom?
A: The Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.
Nazi Adolf Eichmann is what?
A: Hanged at a prison in Ramla, Israel.
Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from
where?
A: The Alcatraz Island prison, and the men are never heard from again.
The United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory
prayers in public schools are what?
A: Unconstitutional.
American artist Andy Warhol premieres what exhibit in Los
Angeles?
A: His Campbell's Soup Cans.
AT&T's Telstar, the world's first commercial what , is
launched into orbit and activated the next day?
A: Communications satellite.
The Rolling Stones make their debut at what club?
A: London's Marquee Club, Number 165 Oxford Street.
Telstar relays the first what?
A: Live trans-Atlantic television signal.
Marilyn Monroe found dead from what?
A: An overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate.
The South African government arrests Nelson Mandela in Howick, and charges him with what?
A: Incitement to rebellion.
Marvel Comics publishes Amazing Fantasy#15, which features
the first published appearance of what superhero?
A: Spider-Man.
Beatles drummer Pete Best is fired and replaced by whom?
A: Ringo Starr.
Where do the Beatles record their first single, 'Love Me
Do'?
A: At Abbey Road Studios in London.
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is released, giving rise
to what?
A: The modern environmentalist movement.
The first black student, James Meredith, does what?
A: Registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.
Johnny Carson takes over as permanent host of what?
A: NBC's Tonight Show, a post he would hold for 30 years.
Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premieres where?
A: In UK theaters.
A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear
weapons being installed, and what begins?
A: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy
announces what to the nation?
A: The existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
An agreement is signed between Britain and France to
develop what?
A: The Concorde supersonic airliner.
