Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers About The Year of 1969
Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases what?
A: The largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The
News of the World.
Ohio State defeats who in the
Rose Bowl to win the national
title for the 1968 season?
A: USC.
Led Zeppelin releases the first what?
A: Led Zeppelin album.
The New York Jets upset what team in Super Bowl III, 16-7?
A: Baltimore Colts.
Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds who as the 37th President of
the United States of America?
A: Lyndon Baines Johnson.
After 147 years, the last issue of what is published?
A: The Saturday Evening Post.
Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for
what?
A: For spying for Israel.
In Cairo, who is elected Palestine Liberation Organization
leader at the Palestinian National Congress?
A: Yasser Arafat.
A huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,
California, closes what?
A: The city's harbor.
The Boeing 747 makes what?
A: Its maiden flight.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the First Amendment
applies to what?
A: Public schools.
In Toulouse, France the first what is conducted?
A: Concorde test flight.
In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed
whom?
A: Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Jim Morrison is arrested in Florida for what?
A: indecent exposure during a Doors-concert three days earlier.
In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to
what?
A: Assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.
Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after doing what?
A: Testing the Lunar Module.
Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of what
country?
A: Israel.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono are what?
A: Married at Gibraltar.
Where did President Dwight D. Eisenhower die after a long
illness?
A: In the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce
what?
A: The Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to do what?
A: Sail around the world solo without stopping.
Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test
of what?
A: All the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
The Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally
rams and slices what ship in two?
A: The American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans, killing 74 American seamen.
After a 23 game match, Boris Spassky defeats whom to become
the World Chess Champion in Moscow?
A: Tigran Petrosian.
Who gets elected President of France?
A: Georges Pompidou.
Judy Garland dies of a what?
A: A drug overdose in her London home.
Who is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by
retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren?
A: Warren E. Burger.
Neil Armstrong descends a ladder to become the first human
to do what?
A: Step onto the surface of the Moon.
What happens to Brian Jones, musician and founder of The
Rolling Stones?
A: He drowns in his swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England.
The United States' $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills
are officially what?
A: Withdrawn from circulation.
An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as
Neil Armstrong does what?
A: Takes his historic first steps on the Moon.
Followers of Charles Manson
murder Sharon Tate, who was
what at the time?
A: 8 months pregnant.
What festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some
of the top rock musicians of the era?
A: Woodstock.
Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical
cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the
Mississippi coast, killing how
many people?
A: 248 people.
Donald and Doris Fisher open the first what, on Ocean
Avenue in San Francisco?
A: Gap store.
Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 counts of
premeditated murder, for the 1968 what?
A: My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
The first-ever episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is
broadcast on what TV network?
A: CBS.
San Francisco Giant Willie Mays becomes the first player
since Babe Ruth to do what?
A: To hit 600 career home runs.
What trial begins in Chicago, Illinois?
A: The Chicago Eight trial.
What TV sitcom is broadcast for the first time?
A: The Brady Bunch on ABC.
