Q 01/05

Which Nordic country switched to driving on the right in September 1967, on a day known as Dagen H?

A) Norway

B) Finland

C) Sweden

D) Iceland

Answer · why

C) Sweden

Sweden made the switch even though 83 percent of voters had rejected it in a 1955 referendum. All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads betw...

Q 02/05

Where did surgeon Christiaan Barnard perform the first human-to-human heart transplant in December 1967?

A) Cape Town

B) Johannesburg

C) Houston

D) London

Answer · why

A) Cape Town

Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital was where Louis Washkansky received the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall. He woke and talked with his wife, ...

Q 03/05

Which NFL team beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in January 1967 to win the first Super Bowl?

A) Dallas Cowboys

B) Green Bay Packers

C) Philadelphia Eagles

D) Cleveland Browns

Answer · why

B) Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers won the only Super Bowl that was not a sellout. CBS and NBC both televised the game, each with its own announcers.

Q 04/05

Which band debuted a song on Our World, the first live multi-satellite TV broadcast, in June 1967?

A) The Hollies

B) The Kinks

C) The Beach Boys

D) The Beatles

Answer · why

D) The Beatles

The Beatles sang All You Need Is Love for the first time to an audience estimated at 400 to 700 million people in 24 countries, the largest television...

Q 05/05

Which lawyer who won the Brown school case became the first Black US Supreme Court justice in 1967?

A) Thurgood Marshall

B) Clarence Thomas

C) Constance Baker Motley

D) William Hastie

Answer · why

A) Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall had won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the court as a lawyer. He went on to serve as a justice until 1991.