The Ultimate Year Quiz - 1963
Guess the answer to each question
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. What was the top grossing film of 1963?
(#) The Longest Day
(#) Charade
(#) Cleopatra
(#) The Great Escape
2. What team won the 1963 NFL Championship?
(#) New York Giants
(#) Chicago Bears
(#) Green Bay Packers
(#) Cleveland Browns
3. What team won the 1963 World Series?
(#) San Francisco Giants
(#) New York Yankees
(#) St. Louis Cardinals
(#) Los Angeles Dodgers
4. What country music star was killed in a small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963?
(#) Johnny Horton
(#) Patsy Cline
(#) Hank Williams
(#) Jim Reeves
5. What famous prison closed on March 21, 1963?
(#) Joliet Prison
(#) Eastern State Penitentiary
(#) Alcatraz Island
(#) Sing Sing
6. What was introduced in the United States on July 1, 1963?
(#) the zip code
(#) television programs in color
(#) the $2 dollar bill
(#) the telephone area code
7. What was the official name of the commission that was established to look into JFK's assassination?
(#) The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
(#) The U.S. Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
(#) The Warren Commission
(#) The Kennedy Assassination Commission
8. On the steps of what memorial did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous "I Have A Dream" speech on August 28, 1963?
(#) The Lincoln Memorial
(#) Ford's Theatre National Historic Site
(#) Washington Monument
(#) The Jefferson Memorial
9. Who became the first woman to go into space on June 16, 1963?
(#) Valentina Tereshkova
(#) Judith Resnik
(#) Svetlana Savitskaya
(#) Sally Ride
10. What civil rights activist was assassinated on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi?
(#) Malcolm X
(#) George W. Lee
(#) Medgar Evers
(#) Emmett Till
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