Movies
The movie that features the line, “Here’s looking at you, kid”.
Casablanca
The Elvis Presley song that mentioned a pet in it.
Hound Dog
The famous space agency founded in 1958.
NASA
The person that patented the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
The phrase that meant a dance party in the 1950s.
Sock Hop
The 1964 Disney film that features a magical nanny.
Mary Poppins
The Beatles song that made “yeah, yeah, yeah” culturally iconic.
She Loves You
The U.S. state added as the 50th state in 1959.
Hawaii
The famous toy with a fashion-icon status that was first introduced in 1959.
Barbie
The 1950s slang meaning you were boring or followed the rules way too strictly.
Square
The 1960s show featuring a talking horse.
Mister Ed
The popular teen dance show that debuted in 1957.
American Bandstand
The year the Berlin Wall went up.
1961
The colorful interlocking plastic bricks invented in Denmark by Ole Kirk Christiansen.
LEGO
The Western series that featured the Cartwright family.
Bonanza
The Japanese monster film that became iconic worldwide in 1954.
Godzilla
Elvis Presley’s first number-one hit single.
Heartbreak Hotel
The NFL team that won the first Super Bowl in 1967.
Green Bay Packers
Invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, this would become an essential input device for personal computers beginning in 1980.
Computer Mouse
They won the World Series in 1960.
The Pittsburg Pirates
The 1961 movie featuring two gangs called the Sharks and the Jets.
West Side Story
First singer of the song “Stand By Me” in 1961.
Ben E. King
The year the first televised U.S. presidential debate aired between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
1960
The person who designed the first modern air-conditioning system.
Willis Carrier
The iconic hairstyle that became popular in the 1960s, often associated with the band The Beatles.
The Mop Top