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| E | German physicist who is best known for his equation E = mc^2. | Albert Einstein | 99%
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| F | Television game show that premiered in 1975 -- Wheel of ________. | Fortune | 99%
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| D | Theme park that opened in Anaheim, California in 1955. | Disneyland | 96%
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| J | U.S. President who was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. | John F. Kennedy | 96%
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| Q | England got a "new" one of these after the death of King George VI in 1953. | Queen | 93%
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| A | Russian troops invaded this country in 1979. | Afghanistan | 92%
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| N | He was elected Vice President of the United States in 1952 and President in 1968. | Richard Nixon | 92%
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| W | The most famous rock festival of the 1960s. | Woodstock | 89%
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| I | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led a revolution to take total religious and political control of this country in 1979. | Iran | 88%
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| B | Name given to the frenzy surrounding a British Rock Group in the 1960s. | Beatlemania | 87%
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| V | An inoculation to prevent the spread of disease -- Jonas Salk developed one to prevent polio. | Vaccine | 87%
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| Y | The baseball team of Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. | Yankees | 86%
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| S | The name of the artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, kicking off a "Space Race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. | Sputnik | 84%
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| X | Civil Rights leader whose autobiography, which was published after his assassination in 1965, was influential in the Black Power movement. | Malcolm X | 83%
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| C | A "coming-of-age" novel by J.D. Salinger that follows Holden Caulfield as he wanders the streets of New York City. | The Catcher in the Rye | 76%
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| P | Musical genre that emerged in the 1970s with anti-authoritarian themes. | Punk Rock | 75%
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| H | American author famous for "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms." | Ernest Hemingway | 70%
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| G | First American astronaut to orbit the Earth. | John Glenn | 64%
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| L | A pianist whose television variety program premiered in 1951. | Liberace | 58%
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| M | He hit 536 home runs and led his New York baseball team to seven World Series. | Mickey Mantle | 54%
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| K | A Rogers and Hammerstein musical set in Bangkok, Siam. | The King and I | 51%
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| U | U.S. spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960. | U-2 | 51%
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| R | Surname of the couple who were convicted and sentenced to death for sharing U.S. secrets with the Soviet Union in 1951. | Rosenberg | 50%
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| T | Drug that caused severe birth defects in children if the mothers took it during pregnancy. | Thalidomide | 45%
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| O | African American student James Meredith enrolled at this college in 1962, prompting a riot that had to be quelled by 30,000 U.S. troops. | Ole Miss | 25%
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| Z | He was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China and helped implement Chairman Mao's Communist takeover of the country. | Zhou Enlai | 20%
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