Question: What invention of 1928 was the greatest thing since ... ever?
Answer: Sliced Bread

Question: Who wore a bowler hat, had a mustache, and often carried a cane?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Question: Who wrote "Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises"?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Question: What did John Logie Baird invent?
Answer: Television

Question: What type of movie declined after the release of "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson?
Answer: Silent Movie

Question: What art movement was represented by Salvador Dalí and René Magritte?
Answer: Surrealism

Question: What miracle drug was discovered by Alexander Fleming?
Answer: Penicillin

Question: What country was invaded to start WWII?
Answer: Poland

Question: What country's civil war was called a "dress rehearsal" for WWII?
Answer: Spain

Question: What baseball player was diagnosed with ALS disease?
Answer: Lou Gehrig

Question: What building became the world's tallest in 1931?
Answer: Empire State Building

Question: What book by John Steinbeck was about poor Okies looking for work in California?
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath

Question: What communist led his forces on the Long March?
Answer: Mao Zedong

Question: Who starred as Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind"?
Answer: Clark Gable

Question: What character from "The Wizard of Oz" lacked a brain?
Answer: Scarecrow

Question: Who famously danced with Ginger Rogers?
Answer: Fred Astaire

Question: What child actress delighted audiences in "Curly Top" and "Heidi"?
Answer: Shirley Temple

Question: What instrument was played by bandleaders Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw?
Answer: Clarinet

Question: Who was Stan Laurel's comedic partner?
Answer: Oliver Hardy

Question: In what movie did Sam play the song "As Time Goes On"?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: In what city did Anne Frank hide?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: Who said "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Who was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Question: What French fashion designer and perfumer was suspected of being a Nazi spy?
Answer: Coco Chanel

Question: What new country was led by David Ben-Gurion?
Answer: Israel

Question: Who wrote the play "Death of a Salesman"?
Answer: Arthur Miller

Question: What name was given to Japanese suicide pilots?
Answer: Kamikaze

Question: What bebopping saxophonist was known as "Bird"?
Answer: Charlie Parker

Question: What musical featured the songs "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Bali Ha'i"?
Answer: South Pacific

Question: To what island did Chiang Kai-shek flee?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: What brutal leader was called "Uncle Joe" in an attempt to soften his image?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: What became the 50th U.S. state?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: For what disease did Jonas Salk create a vaccine?
Answer: Polio

Question: What region did China annex?
Answer: Tibet

Question: Who starred as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"?
Answer: Charlton Heston

Question: What rich chocolately product allowed kids to send in for "secret decoder rings"?
Answer: Ovaltine

Question: What rocker died in a plane crash along with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens?
Answer: Buddy Holly

Question: What singer was managed by Colonel Tom Parker?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: What group of people wore berets and turtlenecks, played bongos, and smoked marijuana?
Answer: Beatniks

Question: What type of "miracle" did West Germany have?
Answer: Economic Miracle

Question: What were 78's, 45's, and 33's?
Answer: Records

Question: What was the world's largest corporation?
Answer: General Motors

Question: In what (modern-day) country did The Mau Mau Uprising occur?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Who sang "Johnny B. Goode"?
Answer: Chuck Berry

Question: Who was assassinated in Memphis?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question: What type of hat was famously worn by Che Guevara?
Answer: Beret

Question: Who won the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: England

Question: What pesticide was criticized by the book "Silent Spring"?
Answer: Ddt

Question: Who said "We're more popular than Jesus now"?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: What gang provided security for the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Free Concert?
Answer: The Hells Angels

Question: What artist's studio was called "The Factory"?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: What African-American winter holiday was first celebrated in 1966?
Answer: Kwanzaa

Question: What, according to the media, did feminists burn?
Answer: Their Bras

Question: Who was Jackie Kennedy's second husband?
Answer: Aristotle Onassis

Question: On what holiday did North Vietnam launch a major offensive?
Answer: Tet

Question: What Eastern European city had a "spring" that was crushed by Soviet tanks?
Answer: Prague

Question: Who wrote the true crime novel "In Cold Blood"?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: What country had massive student and worker protests in May of 1968?
Answer: France

Question: What event did Bob Beamon win at the 1968 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Long Jump

Question: What dance was popularized by Chubby Checker?
Answer: The Twist

Question: What city had a Summer of Love?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Who sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President"?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: What British actor did Elizabeth Taylor marry?
Answer: Richard Burton

Question: What musical had a notorious nude scene?
Answer: Hair

Question: What doll was introduced as Barbie's boyfriend?
Answer: Ken

Question: What brand of sugary drink mix did astronauts drink?
Answer: Tang

Question: Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Answer: Harper Lee

Question: Who was the only black member of the Rat Pack?
Answer: Sammy Davis Jr.

Question: What model of American spy plane flew over Russia?
Answer: U-2

Question: What did Nikita Khrushchev bang against his desk at a meeting of the United Nations?
Answer: His Shoe

Question: Who was the President of France for most of the decade?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: What country replaced a shah with an ayatollah?
Answer: Iran

Question: What Asian city hosted a "thriller" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?
Answer: Manila

Question: What term refers to an economy with high inflation and low growth?
Answer: Stagflation

Question: What paddle-based game was the first commercially successful video game?
Answer: Pong

Question: What was the nickname of the anonymous source who leaked the Watergate scandal?
Answer: Deep Throat

Question: What became the world's tallest building in 1973?
Answer: Sears Tower

Question: What brutal dictator seized power in Cambodia?
Answer: Pol Pot

Question: What city fell to the Communists on April 30, 1975?
Answer: Saigon

Question: What city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1972?
Answer: Munich

Question: In what country did Augusto Pinochet seize power?
Answer: Chile

Question: What phrase accompanied a yellow smiley face?
Answer: Have a Nice Day

Question: What country became independent from Pakistan?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"?
Answer: Hunter S. Thompson

Question: What city was divided by a wall until 1989?
Answer: Berlin

Question: What type of girl, like, totally talked like this?
Answer: Valley Girl

Question: What world leader had a prominent birthmark on his head?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: In what city were democracy protestors massacred?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Who scored "The Goal of the Century" in the 1986 World Cup?
Answer: Diego Maradona

Question: What humorously cheap Eastern European car was sold in the United States?
Answer: Yugo

Question: What drug caused a crime wave in American inner cities?
Answer: Crack

Question: What was Sony's portable tape player called?
Answer: Walkman

Question: What video game simulated a pioneer wagon journey to the west coast of the U.S.?
Answer: Oregon Trail

Question: What was the name of the Soviet space station?
Answer: Mir