Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1950–1969

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1969	First person to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong	99%
1959	The 50th state to join the U.S.	Hawaii	92%
1962	Actress who sang "Happy Birthday” to John F. Kennedy	Marilyn Monroe	88%
1953	Soviet leader who died	Joseph Stalin	87%
1961	Country in which the Bay of Pigs invasion took place	Cuba	86%
1964	Band which caused a "mania" when they visited the U.S.	The Beatles	85%
1963	City where John F. Kennedy was assassinated	Dallas	84%
1957	Russian satellite which became the first man-made object to orbit Earth	Sputnik	83%
1950	Peninsula in Asia where a major war started that is still, technically, currently ongoing	Korea	80%
1955	Military agreement signed between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc allies	{Warsaw} Pact	73%
1965	Black nationalist leader assassinated in Harlem	Malcolm X	70%
1956	Country whose Prince Rainier married actress Grace Kelly	Monaco	68%
1958	Former general who became President of France	Charles de Gaulle	65%
1951	Television show starring Lucille Ball which debuted on CBS	I Love Lucy	52%
1968	Vietnamese holiday on which Viet Cong forces launched a major offensive	Tet	52%
1952	British king who died	{George} {VI}	50%
1966	"Revolution" launched by Mao with the goal of replacing traditional Chinese values	{Cultural} Revolution	43%
1960	Still-running British soap opera which aired for the first time	{Coronation} Street	42%
1967	Rock musical about a "tribe" of New York hippies which debuted off-Broadway	Hair	38%
1954	Silicon device demonstrated by Bell Labs – modern computer chips have billions	Transistor	24%