Historical Events
Movies of the 1960s
Music of the 1960s
Famous Faces
Books
Sports
The Space Race
60's TV Shows
Potpourri
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His iconic "I Have a Dream" public speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This heartwarming story is based on the real life of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.
What is the Sound of Music?
100
Co-written and sung by Tammy Wynette, this song was her most successful single. No stranger to controversy, it was released in 1969, amidst the women's movement who criticized it for promoting submissive gender roles. Hillary Clinton brought it all back up again in a 1992 interview.
What is Stand By Your Man?
100
World Leader
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
100
This Southern Gothic novel from 1960 was written by Harper Lee and focuses on the Finch family as they witness racial inequality in their small Alabama town.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
100
in 1966, when Gibb applied to run this race, she was told that women were not physiologically capable of running 26.2 miles. She sneaked into the race and would up doing better then 2/3 of the men who participated.
What is the Boston Marathon?
100
in 1961, he said “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
Who is JFK?
100
Johnny Carson's inaugural broadcast of this program aired on October 1, 1962
What is the Tonight Show?
His first guest was actress Joan Crawford.
100
British fashion designer Mary Quant invented this daring and revealing new type of clothing item in 1964.
What is the miniskirt?
200
The first version of this was built overnight on August 13, 1961. The concrete and stone wall created stop mass emigration in Germany took months to finish.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this film is based on a short story by Arthur C Clarke. In it, astronaut Dr Dave Bowman faces off with HAL9000, the spaceship's computer system.
What is 2001 A Space Odyssey?
200
The Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto version of this Bossa Nova song was released in 1964 and became a worldwide sensation. It was originally written by two married men ogling a neighborhood girl at a bar in Brazil.
What is Girl From Ipanema?
200
First Lady
Who is Pat Nixon?
200
Subtitled The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death and written by Kurt Vonnegut, this is a 1969 semi-autobiographic time-travel novel with an unreliable narrator named Billy Pilgrim as he jumps around through the pre, peri and post WWII era.
What is Slaughterhouse Five?
200
The first of this World Championship—was played on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, pitting two midwest teams against each other.
What is the Super Bowl?
200
He was the second person to set foot on the moon, roughly 19 minutes after Neil Armstrong did it.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
200
In 1964, this anthropomorphic canine started as a cartoon character created to sell General Mills cereals. Whenever Sweet Polly Purebred is in trouble, he transforms from a mild-mannered Shoeshine Boy into a rhyming superhero.
Who is Underdog?
200
The U.S. Postal Service launched these on July 1, 1963. The first was 00601, assigned to Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
What are ZIP codes?
300
On July 1, 1966, the Medicare program officially began under this president's leadership, providing health coverage to Americans age 65 and older.
Who is Lyndon B Johnson?
300
In 1960, low budget horror director Roger Corman created this film about a flower shop owner and a carnivorous plant and directed it all within a two day period. In became a Broadway musical and film 20 years later.
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
300
Before launching a successful solo career, including her sophomore album, Tapestry in 1971, this singer/songwriter created hits for others including Natural Woman for Aretha Franklin, Will You Love Me Tomorrow by the Shirelles and Up On the Roof by the Drifters
Who is Carole King?
300
Model
Who is Twiggy?
300
Her 1962 nonfiction book, Silent Spring, exposed the dangerous, long-term effects of synthetic pesticides like DDT on the environment and helped launch the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
300
This figure skater from San Jose, CA was the only American to win a gold medal in the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, skating in a bright green dress sewn by her mother.
Who is Peggy Fleming?
300
The Outer Space Treaty was originally signed by the US, UK and Soviet Union in this year, building the basic framework for international space law that bans weapons of mass destruction in space and prohibits national sovereignty over celestial bodies.
What is 1967?
300
Honolulu Detective Captain Steve McGarrett coined this catchphrase, when telling his partner Daniel Williams to arrest and process a suspect.
What is "Book 'em, Danno!"?
300
Released in 1969, this film was directed by Dennis Hopper and starred Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson. Its about two Harley-riding hippies who decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
What is Easy Rider?
400
On June 28, 1969, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community against a police raid outside this tavern in Greenwich Village.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
400
Fussy news writer Felix moves in with his slovenly best friend, sports writer Oscar in this 1968 movie based on a play by Neil Simon.
What is the Odd Couple?
400
Commonly referred to as the "King of Soul," his career peaked in the early 60s with songs like Cupid and Twistin' the Night Away. His song "A Change is Gonna Come" became a Civil Rights anthem when it was released in 1964, a few weeks after his death.
Who is Sam Cooke?
400
Singer/TV Icon
Who is Tiny Tim?
400
Upon its completion in 1960, this children's sci-fi/fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle was rejected by at least 26 publishers, because it was "too different", and because it dealt overtly with the problem of evil, as three children embark on a journey through space and time as they endeavor to rescue their father.
What is A Wrinkle in Time?
400
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known by this nickname, was a Brazilian football legend, voted Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee in 1999, despite never playing in an Olympic game.
Who is Pele?
400
This Cosmonaut became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963, flying a solo mission aboard the Vostok 6.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
400
Scottish actor and singer David McCallum, well-known for playing Dr. Donald Mallard on NCIS, first gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin on this American spy drama series that aired from 1964–1968
What is The Man from U.N.C.L.E?
400
Based on a 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, this prime time soap opera starred Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal and aired from 1964-1969.
What is Peyton Place?
500
On May 20, 1964, American radio astronomers Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered faint leftover radiation that began saturating the universe 380,000 years after its creation, proving this leading theory of how the universe began.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
500
A Lion in Winter from 1968 tells the story of Henry II and his plans to announce his successor to the throne. It stars Peter O'Toole as Henry II and this 4-time Academy Award winning actress as Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Who is Katherine Hepburn?
500
Her duets with Marvin Gaye include Ain't No Mountain High Enough and You're All I Need to Get By, sealing her legacy as one of the stars of the Motown era. Sadly, she died at age 24 due to a brain tumor.
Who is Tammi Terrell?
500
Comedian
Who is Flip Wilson?
500
This author penned The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, a cold-war era spy novel about a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.
Who is John LeCarre?
500
The first of this International Multi-sport event was held in Rome, Italy in 1960 to coincide with the Summer Olympics. Started by Dr Ludwig Guttman in 1948, the 1960 games were the first time the games weren't solely open to injured veterans.
What are the Paralympic Games?
500
NASA began their tradition of wake-up calls (playing a song or message every morning to greet the astronauts) during the 1965 Gemini 6 mission. Astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford were greeting with a parody of this hit Broadway tune.
What is Hello Dolly?
It was "Hello Wally" instead.
500
This television game show's first episode aired on March 30, 1964. The original host was Art Fleming and the first winner, Mary Cable Eubanks, won a whopping $345.
What is Jeopardy?
500
These three actors all protrayed James Bond for at least one film in the 1960s.
Who are Sean Connery, George Lazenby and David Niven.