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1965 trivia quiz with answers about things from the 60s.

 

1965 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

President Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his what ?
A: State of the Union address.

Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as what?
A: U.S. President.

The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place with the largest assembly of statesmen in the world until what?
A: The 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.

A new red and white maple leaf design is inaugurated as the what?
A: Flag of Canada, replacing the Union Flag and the Canadian Red Ensign.

Joan Rivers makes her what?
A: Tonight Show debut.

Gambia becomes independent from the what?
A: The United Kingdom.

Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of doing what?
A: Photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

Who is assassinated in New York City?

 
A: African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X.

Where does  The Sound of Music premiere?
A: At the Rivoli Theater in New York City.

Some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 what?
A: Civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama.

In Montgomery, Alabama, how many civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse?
A: 1,600.

Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, becomes the first person to what?
A: Walk in space.

Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to where?
A: The capitol in Montgomery.

NASA launches the United States' first  what?
A: 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young) into Earth orbit.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the  what?
A: The 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.

At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins how many Academy Awards?
A: 8.

What sports facility opens in Houston?
A: The Astrodome.

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of what magazine?
A: Time.

April 17 – The first Students for a Democratic Society march against the Vietnam War draws how many protestors to Washington, D.C.?
A: 25,000.

Teenage sniper Michael Clark kills 3 and wounds others shooting at cars from a hilltop located where?
A: Along Highway 101 just south of Orcutt, California.

Pianist Vladimir Horowitz returns to the stage after how long?
A: After a 12-year absence.

 

The first skateboarding what is held?
A: Championship.

Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch with the "what", at the Central Maine Civic Center in Lewiston?
A: The "Phantom Punch".

The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives where?
A: In South Vietnam.

Astronaut Edward Higgins White makes the first U.S. what?
A: Space walk.

Sonny & Cher release what song which would go on to #1 in the US, UK & Canada and establish them as international icons?
A: I Got You Babe.

U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first what?
A: The first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.

The Maldives receive full independence from whom?
A: Great Britain.

 

What Beatles movie premieres?
A: Help!.

President Johnson signs what into law?
A: the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

What rock group debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco and begins to appear there regularly?
A: The rock group Jefferson Airplane.

The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing before 55,600 persons at what venue?
A: Shea Stadium in New York City.

Who announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball?
A: Casey Stengel.

Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches a what?
A: A perfect game in a baseball match against the Chicago Cubs.

The Tom and Jerry cartoon series makes its what?
A: World broadcast premiere on CBS.

 

Pope Paul VI visits what country?
A: The United States.

He appears for a Mass in Yankee Stadium and makes a speech where?
A: At the United Nations.

Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not what?
A: Collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.

What soap opera debuts on NBC?
A: Days of Our Lives.

Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record of what?
A:  600.601 mph (966.574 km/h).

A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming what?
A: An annual tradition.

Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 perform the first what?
A: Controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit.

 
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