Q 01/05

To end the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US secretly agreed to remove its Jupiter missiles from which country?

A) Turkey

B) Greece

C) West Germany

D) Iran

Answer · why

A) Turkey

Publicly, Washington only pledged not to invade Cuba; the Jupiter withdrawal from Turkey and Italy stayed secret for years.

Q 02/05

Which agency enforces the job-discrimination rules of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

A) NLRB

B) FTC

C) EEOC

D) OSHA

Answer · why

C) EEOC

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which opened its doors in July 1965, investigates job-discrimination charges and may sue on worker...

Q 03/05

Which Black nationalist leader, a year after breaking with the Nation of Islam, was shot dead at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom in 1965?

A) Medgar Evers

B) Fred Hampton

C) Malcolm X

D) James Meredith

Answer · why

C) Malcolm X

Malcolm X told an interviewer two days before his death that the Nation of Islam was trying to kill him; the ballroom now houses a memorial to him.

Q 04/05

Who was the first woman in space, launching aboard Vostok 6 in 1963?

A) Valentina Tereshkova

B) Svetlana Savitskaya

C) Eileen Collins

D) Sally Ride

Answer · why

A) Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova, a former textile worker and amateur parachutist, flew Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963, completing 48 orbits of Earth in just under thre...

Q 05/05

The Watts riots in Los Angeles in August 1965 lasted six days and left how many people dead?

A) 12

B) 34

C) 68

D) 103

Answer · why

B) 34

The Watts riots killed 34 people; there were also 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and more than $40 million in property damage across six days in Augus...