U.S. History by Year, 1960-1979 - Statistics

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1969	Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to set foot on this place	The Moon	98%
1974	Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency due to his involvement in this scandal	{Watergate} Scandal	98%
1975	This Steven Spielberg movie makes people terrified of swimming in the ocean	Jaws	97%
1968	This civil rights leader is assassinated in a Memphis motel	Martin Luther King Jr.	97%
1976	Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found this computer company in a Los Altos garage	Apple	96%
1977	George Lucas releases the first of these influential science fiction movies	Star Wars	95%
1962	A nuclear war almost starts with the USSR over a stand-off of missiles on this island	Cuba	94%
1964	The British Invasion starts when this band visits the U.S.	The Beatles	94%
1979	A U.S. embassy in this country is taken hostage, also indirectly fueling the oil crisis	Iran	92%
1963	John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in this city	Dallas	91%
1961	The U.S. begins to send military personal to fight communists in this country's civil war	Vietnam	88%
1971	This cult leader is found guilty for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders	Charles Manson	81%
1978	This "charismatic" serial killer is caught and arrested in Florida	Ted Bundy	74%
1972	This company releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game	Atari	68%
1973	This Chicago skyscraper becomes the tallest in the world for 25 years	Sears Tower	64%
1967	This team wins the first Super Bowl, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs	Green Bay Packers	59%
1970	4 students protesting the U.S. incursion into Cambodia are killed at this Ohio university	Kent State	59%
1960	Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union while flying this spy plane	U-2	58%
1965	Construction on this St. Louis, Missouri landmark is completed	Gateway Arch	54%
1966	This band releases their critically acclaimed album, Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	52%