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; its promise to pull the Jupiter missiles out of Turkey was kept secret at the time.

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 EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) opened in July 1965 with no power to sue: until Congress amended the law in 1972 it could only inve...

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 was suspended by the Nation of Islam after calling President Kennedy's assassination a case of 'chickens coming home to roost', and announce...

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 was a textile-mill worker whose hobby helped win her the seat: she was an amateur skydiver, and Vostok cosmonauts had to eject an...

Q 05/05

What sparked the six-day Watts riots in Los Angeles in August 1965?

A) A traffic stop

B) A nightclub raid

C) A school walkout

D) An eviction

Answer · why

A) A traffic stop

A traffic stop began it: a highway patrolman pulled over Marquette Frye for drunk driving on 11 August 1965, a crowd gathered as the arrest turned rou...