The 1950s
This variety of dog is frequently seen on women's flared skirts.
What is a poodle?
This rock and roll group made its first US appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and sang "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to a record-breaking TV audience.
What are the Beatles?
This popular dance craze came out during this decade and was memorialized by movies like "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER."
What is disco?
This material girl made headlines with her iconic fashions and starred in "DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN."
Who is Madonna?
Following the Los Angeles riots, this victim of police brutality asked, "Can't we all get along?"
Who is Rodney King?
This bubble gum maker included jokes and comics with its chewy treats.
What is Bazooka?
This famous dance step was made famous by Chubby Checker, who sang a song with the same name.
What is the twist?
The first movie of this "force-full" series came out in 1977.
What is Star Wars?
This women's iconic fashion item made women look like football linebackers with tiny waists.
What are shoulder pads?
This white supremacist blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and thereby killed 168 people and left hundreds more injured.
Who is Timothy McVeigh?
This comic strip by Charles Schulz featured Charlie Brown and Lucy.
What is Peanuts?
These young people opposed the Vietnam War, wore their hair long and loose, wore loose flowing clothing, and believed in free love.
What are hippies?
For the first time, female students were permitted to wear this clothing item to school.
What are pants?
During the heydey of the teen movie, this screenwriter/ director enjoyed phenomenal success with his movies, including "SIXTEEN CANDLES" and "THE BREAKFAST CLUB."
Who is John Hughes?
This White House intern saved her dress, unlaundered, with presidential DNA on it.
Who is Monica Lewinsky?
This author got his start during this decade, with books like "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham."
Who is Dr. Seuss?
This 1961 movie was a modern spin on "Romeo and Juliet," with Tony as the leader of the Jets, and Maria (played by Natalie Woods) as Tony's love interest.
What is "West Side Story?"
This American president proclaimed, "I am not a crook."
Who is Richard Nixon?
The GOP adopted this religiously-fervent group and thereby changed its entire focus.
What is the Moral Majority?
Federal agents conducted a 51-day siege of David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in this Texas town.
What is Waco?
This magazine, published by Hugh Hefner, featured a different scantily-clad woman on the front of every issue, as well as in the centerfold.
What is Playboy?
This Stanley Kubrick film featured a talking computer named Hal, a spaceman named Dave, monkeys puzzled by monoliths, and the Blue Danube Waltz.
What is "2001, a Space Odyssey?"
These two Washington Post journalists wrote groundbreaking investigative stories regarding the Watergate break-in, and were featured in the movie ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN.
Who are Woodward and Bernstein?
This president believed in trickle-down economics.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on a shooting spree in Littleton, Colorado, at this high school; they killed 13 people and wounded over 20 others, before turning their guns on themselves.
What is Columbine?