Celebrity Couples
This musical power couple first met in 1963 and gained fame with their 1965 hit “I Got You Babe.”
Sonny and Cher
The pair married in 1969 and had one child together.
This 1960 Hitchcock film features Anthony Perkins as a motel manager.
Psycho
Hitchcock has been quoted as saying that 33 percent of the film’s appeal is due to its now-iconic musical score
The 1967 “Summer of Love” was centered on the Haight-Ashbury district of this California city.
San Francisco
Previously known as a hip and artsy neighborhood, the area became a center of counterculture and peaceful protest
This iconic national highway was decommissioned in June 1985 but is immortalized in songs like Nat King Cole’s “Get Your Kicks on _____ _____.”
Route 66
The road also features prominently in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
The first Super Bowl was played by the Green Bay Packers and this team
Kansas City Chiefs
The Super Bowl is a competition between AFL and NFL football teams, but its creators never intended for the name Super Bowl to stick
Jacqueline Kennedy married this Greek shipping tycoon in 1968
Aristotle Onassis
The wedding ceremony was on Onassis’ private island.
In 1979, Hitchcock was awarded the Life Achievement Award by the AFI, or the American _____ Institute.
Film
He was the seventh person to receive the honor, and speakers at the event included Janet Leigh, Gregory Peck, and Ingrid Bergman.
The peace-loving young people who congregated during the Summer of Love became known by this nickname
hippies
The term was popularized by journalist Herb Caen
Shortages of this began in 1973 when OPEC raised its prices, leading to long waits for American motorists.
gasoline
The shortage led to rationing, sometimes by license plate numbers, and to reduced speed limits, which were intended to conserve fuel
What American author’s novels include East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck.
He wrote his first novel, Cup of Gold, in 1929, but he did not achieve widespread popularity until his 1935 novel Tortilla Flat.
This pair was often called “Hollywood’s Golden Couple” throughout their 50-year marriage: Joanne Woodward and _______.
Paul Newman
Upon meeting Newman, Woodward remarked that he looked “like an ad for an ice cream soda.”
Hitchcock was knighted in 1980 by this monarch of England.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II
Other film directors who have been knighted include Charlie Chaplin and Carol Reed.
Many hippies protested against this conflict in demonstrations across the nation
Vietnam War
The anti-war sentiment of the summer led to the March on the Pentagon in October 1967.
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed into law by this man, who was president from 1953–1961
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This act changed the face of America throughout the ’60s and ’70s by creating jobs and promoting tourism.
What television show features the characters Andy Taylor, Opie, and Barney Fife?
The Andy Griffith Show.
The show ended while still at the top of the Nielsen ratings, one of very few shows to accomplish this feat.
Rita Wilson first met this actor on the set of ABC’s sitcom Bosom Buddies in 1981. They married in 1988.
Tom Hanks
The pair share four children—two they had together and two from Hanks’ previous marriage.
Two of Hitchcock’s films, Topaz and Torn Curtain, are based on this real-world conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Cold War
The two films were not well-received despite Hitchcock’s reputation
On June 4, 1967, this redheaded comedienne won the Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series
Lucille Ball
She won for her role in The Lucy Show. Other winners that year included the Monkees and Barbara Bain
The Microbus comes from this German automaker.
Volkswagen
The VW Microbus was favored by Jerry Garcia and other legends of the 1960s counterculture
The CN Tower is a communications tower and tourist destination in what city?
Toronto, Canada.
The landmark was built on land reclaimed from Lake Ontario.
Goldie Hawn began dating this man after working with him on the film Swing Shift in 1983.
Kurt Russell
This was their second film together. The longtime couple had met before when they worked on the film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in the 1960s
This 1959 film stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who gets mistaken for a spy.
North by Northwest
Hitchcock appears in a cameo as a man who misses his bus.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer broke ground as the first female runner in this race
Boston Marathon
By signing up for the race as K. V. Switzer, she circumvented the rule that only men could run, paving the way for female runners everywhere
In 1974, President Nixon signed the first national speed limit of this many miles per hour on interstate roads
55
The speed limit was part of his Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act
Which planet of our solar system is called the Red Planet?
Mars.
It is the fourth planet from the sun and gets its red coloring from iron minerals in its soil.