A to Z: We Didn't Start the Fire - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
E German physicist who is best known for his equation E = mc^2. Albert Einstein
99%
F Television game show that premiered in 1975 -- Wheel of ________. Fortune
99%
D Theme park that opened in Anaheim, California in 1955. Disneyland
96%
J U.S. President who was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. John F. Kennedy
96%
Q England got a "new" one of these after the death of King George VI in 1953. Queen
93%
A Russian troops invaded this country in 1979. Afghanistan
92%
N He was elected Vice President of the United States in 1952 and President in 1968. Richard Nixon
92%
W The most famous rock festival of the 1960s. Woodstock
89%
I Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led a revolution to take total religious and political control of this country in 1979. Iran
88%
B Name given to the frenzy surrounding a British Rock Group in the 1960s. Beatlemania
87%
V An inoculation to prevent the spread of disease -- Jonas Salk developed one to prevent polio. Vaccine
87%
Y The baseball team of Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. Yankees
86%
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%
X Civil Rights leader whose autobiography, which was published after his assassination in 1965, was influential in the Black Power movement. Malcolm X
83%
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%
P Musical genre that emerged in the 1970s with anti-authoritarian themes. Punk Rock
75%
H American author famous for "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms." Ernest Hemingway
70%
G First American astronaut to orbit the Earth. John Glenn
64%
L A pianist whose television variety program premiered in 1951. Liberace
58%
M He hit 536 home runs and led his New York baseball team to seven World Series. Mickey Mantle
54%
K A Rogers and Hammerstein musical set in Bangkok, Siam. The King and I
51%
U U.S. spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960. U-2
51%
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%
T Drug that caused severe birth defects in children if the mothers took it during pregnancy. Thalidomide
45%
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%
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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