Music of the 60s
Civil Rights Movement
Space Race
Movies of the 60s
Science and Innovation
100

The British band, known as the "Fab Four," took America by storm with their 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Who are The Beatles?

100

This Baptist minister delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

100

This US President famously declared in 1961 that America would land a man on the Moon before the decade was over.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

100

This 1965 musical starring Julie Andrews as a singing governess won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

What is The Sound of Music?

100

This life saving medical device, first implanted in a human in 1960, helps regulate heartbeats.

What is a pacemaker?

200

This Motown group had 12 number one hits in the 1960s, including "Stop! In The Name of Love."

Who are The Supremes?

200

This form of protest, used by students at lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, became a hallmark of nonviolent resistance.

What is a sit-in?

200

This US space program, a follow up to Project Mercury, aimed to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, successfully doing so in 1969 when Niel Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

What is The Apollo Program or Project Apollo?

200

This 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller based on a novel by Robert Bloch shocked audiences with it's shower scene and had a six minute and thirty second commercial.

What is Psycho?

200

This type of imaging technology, developed in the 1960s, allowed doctors to see inside the human body without surgery.  The real time version allowed clinicians to observe moving structures, such as the beating heart instantly.

What is the Ultrasound?

300

This San Francisco band's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow helped define the psychedelic era.

Who is Jefferson Airplane?

300

This civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965 while speaking in Harlem after breaking with the Nation of Islam.

Who is Malcolm X?

300

This astronaut became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.

Who is John Glenn?

300

 This 1968 Stanley Kubrick film explored human evolution, artificial intelligence, and space travel.

What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?

300

This synthetic material, introduced in the 1960s, became popular in clothing for it's wrinkle resistance and stretch.

What is polyester?

400

You don't own this singer who told us "it's my party and I'll cry if I want to" in 1963.  She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1964.  

Who is Lesley Gore?

400

This 1961 campaign lasted from May - December and challenged segregation on interstate buses and terminals in the South.  

What are Freedom Rides?

400

In 1961 this soviet cosmonaut became the first human to travel into space.

Who is Yuri Gagarin?

400

This 1963 epic film about a British officer in World War I won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

What is Lawrence of Arabia?

400

This 1967 heart surgery milestone was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on December 3 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

What is the first human heart transplant?

500

This female folk singer performed at the 1963 March on Washington and was know for her activism.  She began her recording career in 1960 and performed at Woodstock.

Who is Joan Baez?

500

This 1965 event, also known as "Bloody Sunday," occurred when peaceful marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama.

What is the Selma to Montgomery march?

500

This Soviet spacecraft was the first to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and transmit data back to Earth in 1966.

What is the Luna 9?

500

This 1960 Western was a remake of the film "Seven Samurai" and features a group of gunfighters hired to protect a Mexican village from bandits.  It's memorable score was nominated for an Oscar in 1961 and is listed as number 8 in the American Film Institutes top 25 American scores.

What is The Magnificent Seven?

500

On May 16, 1960, Theodore H. Maiman operated the first one of these at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.  He utilized a synthetic ruby crystal as the medium and his invention paved the way for medical and technological advancement.

What is a laser?