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Events of 1968 - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 1,655 times
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- The average score is 8 of 16
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Apr 4th - This great civil-rights leader is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 83%
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| Jan 31st - In a turning point in the war, the Viet Cong begins an offensive campaign on this Vietnamese holiday. | Tet | 83%
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| Jun 5th - This presidential candidate is fatally shot while campaigning in Los Angeles. | Robert F. Kennedy | 77%
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| Dec 23rd - Astronauts Borman, Lovell & Anders, aboard Apollo 8, become the first men to orbit this heavenly body. | The Moon | 69%
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| Apr 29th - This so-called "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" opens on Broadway. | Hair | 64%
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| Jun 1st - This Simon & Garfunkel song, from the soundtrack of the movie "The Graduate," hits number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. | Mrs. Robinson | 63%
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| Dec 12th - This man becomes the first African-American to be the highest-ranked tennis player. | Arthur Ashe | 60%
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| Jan 22nd - This groundbreaking comedy show, hosted by Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, premieres on NBC. | Laugh In | 60%
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| Oct 16th - During a medal ceremony in the Mexico City Summer Olympics, two American athletes make this controversial gesture. | Black power salute | 50%
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| Feb 29th - The Beatles win a Grammy award for this album, which includes such songs as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "When I'm Sixty-Four." | Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 45%
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| Jan 23rd - The USS Pueblo and its crew is seized by this cold-war adversary. | North Korea | 42%
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| Feb 16th - Some of the Beatles travel to India to study this type of meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. | Transcendental | 34%
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| Nov 6th - Richard Nixon defeats this Democratic candidate in the U.S. Presidential election. | Hubert Humphrey | 33%
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| Feb 6th - The tenth Winter Olympic games open in this city in the French Alps. | Grenoble | 19%
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| Sep 6th - This small African nation becomes independent. | Eswatini | 17%
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| Feb 24th - Jocelyn Bell, astronomy graduate student at the University of Cambridge, announces the discovery of this object, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star. | Pulsar | 12%
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