Q 01/05

Which variety-show host introduced the Beatles to 73 million American viewers in February 1964?

A) Dick Clark

B) Ed Sullivan

C) Johnny Carson

D) Steve Allen

Answer · why

B) Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan had watched fans greet the band at London's Heathrow Airport in late 1963. Their first appearance on his show set a U.S. television audien...

Q 02/05

Which Apollo 11 lunar module pilot followed Neil Armstrong onto the Moon's surface in July 1969?

A) Michael Collins

B) Alan Shepard

C) Buzz Aldrin

D) Gene Cernan

Answer · why

C) Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin, a Presbyterian elder, privately took communion on the Moon. The bread and wine became the first food and drink ever consumed there.

Q 03/05

Which Washington Post reporter teamed up with Carl Bernstein to break the Watergate story?

A) Bob Woodward

B) Ben Bradlee

C) Seymour Hersh

D) Jack Anderson

Answer · why

A) Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward often met his secret FBI informant at 2 a.m. on the bottom level of an underground garage. The informant's identity stayed hidden until 2...

Q 04/05

Which actor won an Oscar for The Godfather, then sent Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse it?

A) Gene Hackman

B) Robert Duvall

C) Al Pacino

D) Marlon Brando

Answer · why

D) Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando stayed away from the 1973 ceremony in protest at the film industry's treatment of American Indians. Only George C. Scott had turned down...

Q 05/05

Which powdered drink mix saw its sales take off after NASA sent it into orbit with John Glenn?

A) Kool-Aid

B) Tang

C) Ovaltine

D) Quik

Answer · why

B) Tang

Tang was never a NASA invention: General Foods had formulated it in 1957 and put it on sale in 1959. Sales were poor until the 1962 Mercury flight.