The 1960 Olympic Games
This city, the capital of Italy, hosted the 1960 games.
What is Rome? The 1960 Rome Olympics were held between August 25 and September 11, 1960, with over 5,000 athletes competing.
The 1960s were positively “buzzing” over this piled-high hairdo.
What is a beehive? The look was popularized by the Ronettes and sported by many celebrities throughout the ’60s.
In this 1952 film, Jimmy Stewart plays Buttons the Clown, and the name of the film is also the tagline for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
What is The Greatest Show on Earth? The film portrays the lives of circus entertainers.
A man or an item delivered by the post office
What is mail/male? A male delivered the mail today.
He is the president of Russia.
Who is (Vladimir) Putin? He has been in power since the year 2000. He served twice nominally as prime minister.
This boxer, who would later go by Muhammad Ali, won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight division.
Who is Cassius Clay? He defeated Zbigniew Pietrzkowski of Poland and became an American hero as a result of his win.
This men’s style is often described as “business in the front, party in the back” for its asymmetrical lengths.
What is a mullet? Though the style has been worn since ancient times, David Bowie and others helped popularize this cut during the 1970s and 1980s
Jimmy Stewart portrays this famous big band leader in the eponymous 1954 film.
Who is Glenn Miller? The full title is The Glenn Miller Story. June Allyson plays the female lead of Helen Burger.
Something simple or ordinary or a form of air transportation
What is plain/plane? She wore a plain dress on the plane.
It is the capital of Russia.
What is Moscow? It’s also the largest city in Russia, with more than 12 million residents. The second-largest city is St. Petersburg, formerly known as Leningrad and Petrograd.
Events at the 1960 Olympics included this game, invented by James Naismith and played with an orange ribbed ball.
What is basketball? The United States men’s team took gold in this event for the fifth time in a row
The 1970s would not have been the same without the feathered, flouncy hairstyle named for this Charlie’s Angels star.
Who is Farrah Fawcett? The voluminous soft waves of the Farrah Fawcett haircut are back in popular demand among today’s teens.
Jimmy Stewart stars as Charles Lindbergh in this 1957 film that depicts Lindbergh’s career.
What is Spirit of St. Louis? His airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, was the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.
A verb that means “to form letters or words using a tool such as a pen or pencil” or a synonym for correct
What is write/right? Because of computers and other devices, some people find it hard to write right.
The Kremlin complex is the heart of this square.
What is Red? The complex houses five palaces and four cathedrals, and it is surrounded by a moat and a wall with 20 towers
The 1960 Olympics were the first to be fully broadcast on this medium.
What is television? Footage of the Games was flown to New York City daily and aired by CBS, while European coverage was provided live by Eurovision
This popular hairstyle of the 1970s is closely associated with reggae musician Bob Marley.
What are dreadlocks? The musician sported his signature long dreadlocks as part of his connection with Rastafarianism.
In 1938, Jimmy Stewart stars as Jean Arthur’s boss in a film whose title implies that you might as well spend your money while you’re here on Earth because...
What is You Can’t Take It with You? Stewart plays the vice president of a company that is owned by his greedy father. Stewart and Arthur also co-star in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
A verb meaning “to carry” or “a long, narrow corridor”
What is haul/hall? They haul their luggage down the hall to their room.
This is the longest railway in the world.
What is Trans-Siberian Railway? It runs nonstop from Moscow to Vladivostok, almost the entire length of the country. The trip takes almost 152.5 hours; that’s 6.3 days.
This “fastest woman in the world” brought home three gold medals for the United States in track-and-field events, the first American woman to do so.
Who is Wilma Rudolph? Amazingly, this athlete was afflicted by polio as a child and doctors originally believed she would never walk normally.
This curly, wet-look men’s hairstyle of the 1980s was popularized by Michael Jackson.
What are Jheri curls? Also called Jerry curls, the technique to achieve this look was invented by Jheri Redding and perfected by Comer Cottrell.
In this 1955 film, Jimmy Stewart plays an ex-pilot who is recalled to the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War.
What is Strategic Air Command? His co-star is June Allyson, who plays Sally Holland. In real life, Stewart was a pilot for the Army Air Corps during World War II and retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve in 1968 with the rank of brigadier general.
Past participle form of an action taken with a ball or a royal seat
What is thrown/throne? King Edward VIII wasn’t thrown off the throne; he abdicated.
Found in Siberia, it is the deepest and oldest lake in the world.
Lake Baikal. It is also the largest freshwater lake by volume and often mistaken for a sea.