A to Z by Decade: 1960s - Statistics

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Letter	Clue	Answer	% Correct
B	Site of a failed US invasion of Cuba in 1961	Bay of Pigs	89%
D	City where US president John F. Kennedy was assassinated	Dallas	89%
H	Vietnamese revolutionary and president who died in 1969	Ho Chi Minh	84%
J	Revolutionary guitar legend behind Purple Haze and Voodoo Child	Jimi Hendrix	84%
M	American actress and model who captivated the hearts of many, who took her own life in 1962	Marilyn Monroe	84%
N	Astronaut who became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969	Neil Armstrong	84%
O	Major organization formed by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela in 1960	OPEC	84%
W	Legendary 1969 music festival held in Bethel, New York	Woodstock	84%
G	Musician who started out as the guitarist for the Beatles before later going solo after the band’s split	George Harrison	79%
P	1960 Alfred Hitchcock thrkller starring Anthony Perkins	Psycho	79%
R	1967 hit by Aretha Franklin	Respect	79%
U	American spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union	U-2	79%
X	Name taken by many in the Nation of Islam (including a prominent 1960s civil rights activist) to symbolize their lost pre-slavery tribal African name	X	74%
Y	Cosmonaut who became the first man in space in 1961	Yuri Gagarin	74%
K	Rolling Stones’ guitarist who would go on to inspire Captain Jack Sparrow decades later	Keith Richards	68%
S	Actress murdered by members of the Manson Family in 1969	Sharon Tate	68%
V	Group referred to as “Charlie” during the Vietnam War	Viet Cong	68%
A	Chemical agent and herbicide used during the Vietnam War	Agent Orange	63%
E	Policy placed on Cuba by the US in 1960 barring trade between the two nations	Embargo	63%
C	13 day confrontation in 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union, which nearly resulted in nuclear war	Cuban Missile Crisis	58%
L	Site where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech	Lincoln Memorial	47%
F	Second wave of this social justice movement which began in the early 1960s	Feminism	42%
I	1969 hit by the Jackson 5	I Want You Back	42%
T	Anti morning-sickness drug rejected by the FDA in 1960 which caused birth defects in Europe and Canada	Thalidomide	42%
Q	1964 cartoon series: Jonny _____	Quest	37%
Z	Chamber built by NASA in the 1960s in Cleveland which simulated these conditions for astronauts during the Space Race	Zero gravity	21%

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