Q 01/05

Which metal names both a 70th wedding anniversary and the jubilee Elizabeth II marked in 2022?

A) Silver

B) Palladium

C) Platinum

D) Titanium

Answer · why

C) Platinum

Platinum marks 70 years, a full decade beyond diamond. In 2022 Elizabeth II became the first British monarch ever to reach that jubilee.

Q 02/05

Which Founding Father, aged 70, was the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence?

A) John Hancock

B) Benjamin Franklin

C) George Washington

D) Thomas Jefferson

Answer · why

B) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin signed at 70, while the youngest signer, Edward Rutledge, was just 26.

Q 03/05

Which astronaut and sitting US senator returned to orbit on the shuttle Discovery in 1998, aged 77?

A) John Glenn

B) Neil Armstrong

C) Buzz Aldrin

D) Jim Lovell

Answer · why

A) John Glenn

John Glenn made the flight 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth. It made him the oldest person to reach orbit.

Q 04/05

Which mountain did skier Yuichiro Miura climb at 70, then again at 75 and at 80?

A) Mount Fuji

B) Mont Blanc

C) Mount Kilimanjaro

D) Mount Everest

Answer · why

D) Mount Everest

Mount Everest first made Yuichiro Miura famous in 1970, when he became the first person to ski on it. His climb at 80, in 2013, set the age record for...

Q 05/05

Which singer's debut single for RCA, Heartbreak Hotel, became his first number-one pop hit in 1956?

A) Chuck Berry

B) Jerry Lee Lewis

C) Little Richard

D) Elvis Presley

Answer · why

D) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley held the top of the Billboard chart for seven weeks with it. It finished as the biggest-selling single of 1956.