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The hottest TV genre in 1961.
What is the western?
100
This questionable Elvis song topped the charts in early 1961.
What is Are You Lonesome Tonight?
100
He made the first US space flight in 1961.
Who is Alan Shepard?
100
This number one movie was based on an Alistair McLeans novel.
What is Guns of Navarone?
100
The company whose slogan began with "Sorry, Charlie..."
What is Starkist Tuna?
200
This show featured a former basketball player as the lead actor, and a special rapid firing gun.
What is The Rifleman?
200
The Grammy Award for best album in 1961 went to him, known for his button-down comedy.
Who is Bob Newhart?
200
What President John F. Kennedy advises Americans to add to their homes.
What are bomb shelters?
200
This movie won ten academy awards, despite Richard Beymer.
What is West Side Story?
200
The 23rd amendment gave these people the right to vote.
Who are residents of Washington, D.C.?
300
The tonight show host whose last season was 1961.
Who is Jack Paar?
300
The Musical soundtrack that was the best-selling album of 1961.
What is Camelot?
300
The brand that introduced a product in 1961, revolutionizing the diaper industry.
What is Pampers?
300
Fred MacMurry invented flubber in this black and white Disney movie.
What is The Absent-Minded Professor?
300
Hey played for Syracuse University and won the 1961 Heisman Trophy.
Who is Ernie Davis?
400
The number one show in the nation in 1961, beating out Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
What is Wagon Train?
400
This dance crazy of 1961 was the first popular dance in which couples never touched.
What is The Twist?
400
The US President born in 1961.
Who is Barack Obama?
400
This Disney movie featured a family shipwrecked in the East Indies.
What is Swiss Family Robinson?
400
The best-selling book about Michelangelo.
What is The Agony and the Ecstasy?
500
A popular show in 1961 about a fictional live-in maid.
What is Hazel?
500
The stage name of Robert Zimmerman, who was discovered playing folk music in Greenwich Village.
Who is Bob Dylan?
500
This amount is the approximate price of of a gallon of gasoline, in 1961, within 5 cents.
What is 27 cents.
500
This actor made his debut in Splendor in the Grass?
Who is Warren Beatty?
500
In 1961, this best-selling toy got a boyfriend.
What is Barbie?