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1964 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek
what?
A: The Republican nomination for
President.
A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale
of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging what?
A: The United States blockade of Cuba.
In his first State of the Union Address, President
Johnson
declares a what?
A: A War on Poverty.
What musical opens in New York's St. James Theatre?
A: Musical Hello, Dolly!.
What did John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth,
do?
A: He resigned from NASA.
John Glenn announces that he will seek the what?
A: The Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
Plans to build the New York City "what" are announced?
A: World Trade Center.
The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution,
prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is what?
A: Ratified.
Where are the 1964 Winter Olympics held?
A: In Innsbruck, Austria.
Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to do what?
A: To carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon.
Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to what?
A: The United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
The Beatles appear on what TV show?
A: The Ed Sullivan Show.
The Supreme Court of the United States rules that
congressional districts have to be what?
A: Approximately equal in population.
Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach,
Florida,
and is crowned what?
A: The heavyweight champion of the world.
The government of Italy asks for help to what?
A: Keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling over.
President Johnson announces that the United States has
developed what?
A: A jet airplane capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 miles per hour.
Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of
whom?
A: His father King Paul.
The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First
Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be what?
A: Censored.
What model car rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor
Company for the first time?
A: The first Ford Mustang.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor do what for the first
time?
A: Get married.
What Merv Griffin game show debuts on NBC?
A: Jeopardy!.
What James Bond movie premiers in U.S. movie theaters?
A: From Russia with Love.
Sidney Poitier is the first African-American to win a what?
A: An Academy Award in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role.
What Stadium opens in Flushing, New York?
A: Shea Stadium.
The 1964 New York "what" opens?
A: World's Fair.
What do thieves steal in Copenhagen, Denmark?
A: The head of the Little Mermaid statue.
Twelve young men in New York City publicly burn what?
A: Their draft cards to protest the Vietnam war.
The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riots over a
referee's decision in the Peru-Argentina game resulting in what?
A: 319 are killed, 500 injured.
Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to what?
A: Life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew
Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by whom?
A: A local Klansmen and a deputy sheriff.
Jim Bunning pitches a what?
A: A perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first in the National
League since 1880.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into
law, abolishing what?
A: Racial segregation in the United States.
The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to what
country?
A: South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam
to 21,000.
The bodies of what murdered civil rights workers are
found?
A: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney
What film has its world premiere in Los Angeles?
A: Walt Disney's Mary Poppins.
What new TV show starring Elizabeth Montgomery, premieres
on ABC?
A: Bewitched.
The Kinks release their first what?
A: Album, Kinks.
Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin
through what?
A: A narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the what?
A: Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent
resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
The film version of the hit Broadway stage musical My Fair
Lady premieres where?
A: In New York City.
Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats what
Republican challenger with over 60 percent of the popular vote?
A: Barry Goldwater.
What aircraft makes its first flight at Palmdale,
California?
A: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
What team defeats the Baltimore Colts, 27-0, in the
National Football League Championship Game?
A: The Cleveland Browns.