THE SWINGING SIXTIES
This British band’s 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show drew 73 million viewers.
Who are The Beatles?
In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk here.
What is the Moon?
This family TV show featured Gomez, Morticia, and Uncle Fester.
What is The Addams Family?
This King of Rock ‘n’ Roll shook up the 1950s with Hound Dog.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This company introduced the first handheld calculator in 1972.
What is Texas Instruments?
This music festival in 1969 was billed as “Three Days of Peace and Music.”
What is Woodstock?
The fall of this wall in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Clint Eastwood starred as “Dirty Harry” Callahan in films starting in this decade.
What are the 1970s?
This Motown girl group had hits like Stop! In the Name of Love.
Who are The Supremes?
Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for this disease in the 1950s.
What is polio?
This Civil Rights leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
In 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned over this scandal.
What is Watergate?
This sitcom, set in the Korean War, starred Alan Alda as “Hawkeye.”
What is MASH?*
Bob Dylan famously went “electric” at this 1965 folk festival.
What is Newport Folk Festival?
This Soviet satellite launched in 1957 began the Space Race.
What is Sputnik?
This “British Invasion” band sang You Really Got Me in 1964.
Who are The Kinks?
The Vietnam War ended in 1975 with the fall of this city.
What is Saigon?
Sidney Poitier won his Best Actor Oscar for this 1963 film.
What is Lilies of the Field?
This song by Don McLean is nicknamed “The Day the Music Died.”
What is American Pie?
The first commercial jet airliner, introduced in the 1950s.
What is the Boeing 707?
This 1960s TV cartoon about a futuristic family featured flying cars and a robot maid.
What is The Jetsons?
In 1962, the world came to the brink of nuclear war in this crisis.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This actor played the title character in Columbo.
Who is Peter Falk?
Jimi Hendrix closed Woodstock with this reimagined patriotic anthem.
What is The Star-Spangled Banner?
In 1975, this company introduced its first personal computer, the Altair 8800.
What is MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems)?