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Quiz about Historical Events I Remember 1
Quiz about Historical Events I Remember 1

Historical Events I Remember 1 Quiz


You know how you remember exactly where you were for certain events? These are the memorable happenings in my life.

A multiple-choice quiz by nyirene330. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
nyirene330
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
305,085
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
10 / 15
Plays
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Awards
Top 10% Quiz
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Question 1 of 15
1. One of my earliest memories growing up in Brooklyn, NY was in the early 1950s when an alarm would sound in elementary school and we had to hide under our desks (facing away from the windows). What were these exercises called? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. My family was lucky enough to have a TV in the 1950s and, between March and June of 1954, the daytime programs were pre-empted by the Army-McCarthy hearings. Who was the Army's attorney who said to Senator Joseph McCarthy "have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last"? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. I can still remember President Eisenhower initially denying that the U-2 plane shot down over Soviet territory in May 1960 was a CIA "spy plane". Who was the pilot? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. In the late 1950s and early 1960s two different rock icons came of age and changed the world of music forever: Elvis Presley and the Beatles. On whose nationally televised show did they both appear? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. I can still remember the apprehension surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis and those 13 days in October 1962. What triggered the crisis? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Which historical figure is NOT properly matched to the city in which he was assassinated? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. The 1968 Summer Olympics marked the first time TV viewers got to see two African-American winners, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raise their fists at the medal ceremonies saluting Black Power. Where was this Olympics held? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. On the evening of July 20, 1969, I was watching the TV screen as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon claiming "the Eagle has landed". What was the number of this historic Apollo mission? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. In the '70s, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful test tube baby, was born in Great Britain. In what year was this achieved? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. In 1980, the Cold War intensified again, with Jimmy Carter's ultimatum that the US would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from which country? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. On the morning of January 28, 1986, my son was sick and stayed home from school; to pass the time we turned on the television. We watched in horror and disbelief as the Challenger broke apart at 11:39 EST. How much time had elapsed in the flight? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. I was working in the stock market in the 1980's watching my Quotron - the computer we used in those days to follow the market. All of a sudden, on Black Monday, the Dow (which would usually fluctuate no more than 5 points) dropped 508 points! What was the month and year of this "correction"? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. My first encounter with terrorism was when I was working in New York's financial district one February afternoon. It was snowing lightly when we heard a loud explosion - we thought it was thunder until the sirens of police, fire and ambulance were all directed to the World Trade Center. We later learned that a bomb had exploded in the parking garage. What was the year? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. In 1996, in Edinburgh, Scotland, a ewe was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. What was her name? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Finally, with all the tragedies and hardships, January 16, 2009 gave us the "Miracle on the Hudson", with the pilot ("Sully" Sullenberger) and crew managing to save all those aboard from what seemed a certain death. What was the flight number? Hint



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1. One of my earliest memories growing up in Brooklyn, NY was in the early 1950s when an alarm would sound in elementary school and we had to hide under our desks (facing away from the windows). What were these exercises called?

Answer: Take Cover Drills or Shelter Drills

As if is that was likely to protect anyone in the event of nuclear war! I wonder who "they" thought they were kidding. (The names may have varied slightly in different parts of the country).
2. My family was lucky enough to have a TV in the 1950s and, between March and June of 1954, the daytime programs were pre-empted by the Army-McCarthy hearings. Who was the Army's attorney who said to Senator Joseph McCarthy "have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last"?

Answer: Joseph Welch

Joseph Welch made several attempts to stop Mr. McCarthy's disparaging rhetoric until, finally, he threw him out by saying "I will not discuss it further ... Mr. Chairman, you may, if you will, call the next witness"- at which point the people in the public gallery cheered!
We can thank Mr. Welch and Edward R. Murrow for helping to end this bully's intimidation and black-listing.
3. I can still remember President Eisenhower initially denying that the U-2 plane shot down over Soviet territory in May 1960 was a CIA "spy plane". Who was the pilot?

Answer: Francis Gary Powers

Five months later, with Cold War tensions running high, Mr. Khruschev took off his shoe at the UN General Assembly and disrupted the proceedings by pounding his shoe on the rostrum. The British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan said wryly, "I'd like a translation of that, please".
Twenty-one months after his capture, Gary Francis Powers was exchanged in a spy swap for a Soviet KGB Colonel.
4. In the late 1950s and early 1960s two different rock icons came of age and changed the world of music forever: Elvis Presley and the Beatles. On whose nationally televised show did they both appear?

Answer: The Ed Sullivan Show

Ed missed the original appearance by Elvis in September 1956 due to his recovering from a car accident; Charles Laughton wound up introducing Presley. Ed was there on February 9, 1964 for the Beatles' first live American appearance - the most watched program in TV history to that point.
5. I can still remember the apprehension surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis and those 13 days in October 1962. What triggered the crisis?

Answer: The discovery that the Soviet Union had begun building missile bases in Cuba

The "October Crisis" is often regarded as the moment when the Cold War came closest to nuclear war.
6. Which historical figure is NOT properly matched to the city in which he was assassinated?

Answer: Robert F. Kennedy - San Francisco

JFK in 1963 allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald; MLK in April of 1968 allegedly by James Earl Ray; RFK in June 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles. In late 1968, a teacher asked her students to write a composition on "What is a hero?" One child wrote: "A hero is a person who gets assassinated".
7. The 1968 Summer Olympics marked the first time TV viewers got to see two African-American winners, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raise their fists at the medal ceremonies saluting Black Power. Where was this Olympics held?

Answer: Mexico City, Mexico

This civil rights protest was one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern Olympic games, and an unforgettable image.
8. On the evening of July 20, 1969, I was watching the TV screen as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon claiming "the Eagle has landed". What was the number of this historic Apollo mission?

Answer: Apollo 11

I still get goosebumps when I think of this event ... the 'Conquest of Space' (the final frontier)!
9. In the '70s, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful test tube baby, was born in Great Britain. In what year was this achieved?

Answer: 1978

Although this was heralded as a triumph of modern medicine, it also caused many to consider the possibilities of future mis-use of this technology.
10. In 1980, the Cold War intensified again, with Jimmy Carter's ultimatum that the US would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from which country?

Answer: Afghanistan

On March 21, 1980 the official announcement concerning the boycott was made. The other countries supporting and joining the boycott were Japan, West Germany, the U.K., China, the Philippines and Canada.
11. On the morning of January 28, 1986, my son was sick and stayed home from school; to pass the time we turned on the television. We watched in horror and disbelief as the Challenger broke apart at 11:39 EST. How much time had elapsed in the flight?

Answer: 73 seconds

We later learned that an O-ring in the rocket booster had failed at liftoff, killing all seven of the crew members. John Magee's poem "High Flight" spoke for all of us: "We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
12. I was working in the stock market in the 1980's watching my Quotron - the computer we used in those days to follow the market. All of a sudden, on Black Monday, the Dow (which would usually fluctuate no more than 5 points) dropped 508 points! What was the month and year of this "correction"?

Answer: October 1987

I was employed by a brokerage firm and there had never been a drop anywhere near this magnitude. We thought our machines had broken.
13. My first encounter with terrorism was when I was working in New York's financial district one February afternoon. It was snowing lightly when we heard a loud explosion - we thought it was thunder until the sirens of police, fire and ambulance were all directed to the World Trade Center. We later learned that a bomb had exploded in the parking garage. What was the year?

Answer: 1993

Terrible as this was, it was nothing compared to being at 7 World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 and watching as the other two buildings imploded in front of my eyes, with my building subsequently burning to the ground.
14. In 1996, in Edinburgh, Scotland, a ewe was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. What was her name?

Answer: Dolly

Dolly was cloned from part of a mammary gland and, in a moment of whimsy, named after Dolly Parton. The possibilities were now infinite!
15. Finally, with all the tragedies and hardships, January 16, 2009 gave us the "Miracle on the Hudson", with the pilot ("Sully" Sullenberger) and crew managing to save all those aboard from what seemed a certain death. What was the flight number?

Answer: U.S. Air 1549

As long as there are miracles like this one, there is still hope for all of us!
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