Famous People
Which president made Bill stay in the Navy an extra year?
Truman
TV that was set "To "Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Star Trek
They don't make this style of car anymore, but it's how Bill and Betty used to cart all their kids around in the 60's and 70's.
Station Wagon
Which war helped launch America into an era of of being a great Global Power?
World War II
Very large "shopping book" that used to be in every home. Sometimes a kid sat on it so they could reach the dining room table.
Sears Catalog
Old Blue Eyes
Frank Sinatra
TV show that began with: A cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi-yo Silver'?
The Lone Ranger
Before working on spaceships, Bill worked on these things that orbit the Earth.
Satellites
This era began a week before Bill was born in 1929.
The Great Depression
Women used to wear these on their legs to make them look smooth.
Stockings or pantyhose
One of Bill's favorite singers, she sang On a Clear Day and was in the movie Funny Girl and The Way We Were
Barbra Streisand
One of Bill's favorite actors. He was the lead in the detective series Maverick.
James Garner
Name of first Lunar Lander on the moon. (Bill worked on all of them.)
Apollo 11, also Eagle
This decade was the era of Peace and Love.
The 1960's
Prior to the year Bill was born, no movie had this.
Sound
The man who created Kentucky Fried Chicken, probably the only fast food dinner Bill picked up in the early 1970's.
Colonel Sanders
What radio show began with the sound of an insect's buzz and Flight of the Bumblebee?
The Green Hornet
When Bill was a child, what was the most popular type of electronic entertainment?
Radio
On the eve of which century did many think that the stroke of midnight would cause massive computer failures?
1999-2000
What do these words have in common? Lindy Hop, Charlestown, Jitterbug
They are all dances.
Bandleader to whose music Betty and Bill loved to swing dance.
Benny Goodman
Sports Show in the 1970's that covered a variety of sports - The W___ W_____ of Sports
The Wide World of Sports
Type of calculator Bill used in college in the early 1950's.
Slide Rule
In this decade, Bill finished in the Navy, met and married Betty, went to college, moved to California and had a baby.
1950's
This is something we never see today. If you got one in the 1940s, it usually meant either very good news or very bad news.
Telegraph