Game Shows
On The Price is Right, what does the winner of the Showcase Showdown get to spin?
The big wheel.
What year did The Beatles disband?
1970
What has cities, but no houses, forests, but no trees, and water, but no fish?
A map
Which dance from the '60s created the largest craze?
The twist
What comedy about a shipwrecked group was famously canceled after only three seasons, despite its enduring popularity?
Gilligan's Island
What classic 70s game show involved contestants guessing the price of various items?
The Price is Right.
Launched in 1973, what was the first space station owned and operated by NASA?
Skylab
What comes down, but never goes up?
Rain
In the year 1960, the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, released a movie with a one-word title that contains one of the most famous scenes of the entire history of cinema. Where is this scene set?
The shower scene
What animated family premiered in 1960 and has since become a cultural touchstone?
The Flintstones
What 80s game show had contestants answering trivia questions for a chance to win cash and prizes?
Jeopardy!
What color were the official basketballs in the American Basketball Association before its dissolution and merger with the NBA in 1976?
Red, white, and blue
I have a head and a tail, but no body. What am I?
A coin
Which 1961 movie, based on an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", featured rival street gangs the Sharks and the Jets?
West Side Story
Mork & Mindy (1978) starred Pam Dawber as Mindy, a woman who takes in an alien named Mork played by which soon-to-become legendary funny man?
Robin Williams
Who was the original host of Wheel of Fortune?
Chuck Woolery.
Which figure skating great won a gold medal for her short program at the 1976 Winter Games at Innsbruck?
Dorothy Hamill
What is full of holes but still holds water?
In what TV series, first seen on our screens in the 1960s, did the main character Steve McGarrett have the catch phrase "Book 'em, Danno!"?
Hawaii Five-O
The running joke that the TV family was so wholesome they never used the bathroom started because the network wouldn’t allow a toilet to be shown on screen. What was the title of the groovy 1969 sitcom?
Brady Bunch
What was a common reward for contestants who won big on game shows in the 70s and 80s?
A Showcase.
Muhammad Ali took on boxing great George Foreman in 1974. In one of the sport's greatest boxing matches, what was this fight called?
Rumble in the Jungle
What room can no one enter?
A Mushroom
What was the name of the popular 1960s TV series in which Marshal Matt Dillon and his Deputy, Chester Goode, upheld law and order in Dodge City?
Gunsmoke
Airing from 1972-1982, what CBS dramedy series is based on Richard Hooker’s 1968 book, which was “A Novel About Three Army Doctors”?
Mash
Who hosted the long-running game show Jeopardy! before the current hosts?
Alex Trebek
In 1975's blockbuster movie "Jaws", what's the famous line Chief Brody says to Quint, after seeing the shark for the first time?
"You're going to need a bigger boat."
What type of table can you eat?
Vegetable
He walks! He talks! The former was expected, the latter less so. If I now tell you that this television star who debuted in 1961 weighed over 500 pounds, what would be his name?
Mister Ed
What spin-off of “All In The Family”, starting in 1975, features Sherman Helmsley and Isabel Sanford as the titular African-American couple, moving into a white high-rise building due to the success of the family's dry cleaning business?
The Jeffersons