Music
This Motown songwriter trio wrote hits for The Supremes including “Baby Love.”
Holland–Dozier–Holland
This show featured secret agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
This crisis brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This actor starred in Cool Hand Luke as a man who “can’t eat 50 eggs.”
Paul Newman
This term described young people who rejected mainstream American values.
Counterculture
This fashion designer popularized the miniskirt during the 1960s.
Mary Quant
This Beatles album was the first to feature the band on the cover without their name.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Rod Serling created this iconic science-fiction anthology series.
The Twilight Zone
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on all EXCEPT this category.
S.E.X.
Stanley Kubrick directed this 1968 sci-fi classic.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Stonewall uprising of 1969 took place in this city.
New York City
Before becoming a solo star, this singer was a member of the group The Miracles.
Smokey Robinson
Nicknamed “Lady Soul,” this singer released the album I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You in 1967.
Aretha Franklin
The town of Cicely, Alaska was inspired by this earlier CBS rural sitcom of the ’60s.
Green Acres
This was the name of the first U.S. combat troops sent to Vietnam in 1965.
U.S. Marines
This actress won an Oscar for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Taylor
This amendment lowered the voting age, sparked by protests during the late ’60s.
26th Amendment
This space program preceded Apollo and focused on long-duration spaceflight.
Gemini
This guitarist famously set his guitar on fire at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
Jimi Hendrix
This actress played Morticia Addams in the original Addams Family.
Carolyn Jones
This senator ran for president in 1968 but was assassinated during his campaign.
Robert F. Kennedy
This film introduced the phrase “I’m walking here!”
Midnight Cowboy
This feminist book by Betty Friedan helped launch second-wave feminism.
The Feminine Mystique
This 1960s novel by Ken Kesey became a symbol of rebellion and was later adapted into a famous film.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
This song by Simon & Garfunkel spent 7 weeks at No. 1 in 1968.
Mrs. Robinson
This western character was portrayed by James Arness for 20 seasons.
Marshal Matt Dillon
This 1967 Supreme Court case legalized interracial marriage nationwide.
Loving v. Virginia
This 1964 film was the first James Bond movie to feature Sean Connery in color.
Goldfinger
This 1968 act banned discrimination in housing sales and rentals.
Fair Housing Act
This college campus was the site of the 1964 Free Speech Movement.
University of California, Berkeley