What in the World
60s Inventions
Canada
60s Sports and TV
Family Life
Playground Games
Dance and Music in the 60's
Hit it!
100
In 1961, the Berlin Wall was constructed in this country to prevent East Berliners from escaping communism and defecting to the West.
What is Germany?
100
In 1962, this plastic rectangular object changed how people recorded, played, and listened to music.
What is the cassette tape?
100
This photo depicts this popular area in Vancouver in the 1960s.
What is English Bay?
100
In 1960, this young athlete began his rise in the sport of boxing.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
100
These two food items became part of the mainstream Canadian diet because of the mass immigration of Italians and their influence.
What are spaghetti and pizza?
100
This playground game involves a chalked, numbered, block pattern on the ground and bottle caps.
What is hopscotch OR skelzies?
100
Nicknamed 'The Fab Four', this rock group from Liverpool, England produced hits such as "Hey Jude" and "Yellow Submarine"
Who are the Beatles?
100
According to Paul, John, George, and Ringo, "all you need is" this.
What is love?
200
This South African activist was arrested in the 1960s and served 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president of his country.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
Invented in 1963, this type of lamp lit up rooms around the world with psychedelic colours, light, and movement.
What is a lava lamp?
200
"The Quiet Revolution" took place in this province in the 1960s where intense political and cultural changes took place, including limiting the influence of Catholic Church in the education system.
What is Quebec?
200
This 30-minute television sitcom about a creepy and spooky family first aired in 1964, and included a character called Thing that was just a human hand.
What is The Addams Family?
200
These free-spirited people considered themselves anti-establishment and found pride in producing their own unique clothing through tie-dye.
What are hippies?
200
This popular toy is a tube, tied into a circle, with the objective of using the body to keep it spinning.
What is a hula hoop?
200
The popular 60s dance involves holding your nose and pretending to be sinking under water.
What is the "swim"?
200
I'm a Believer was a hit in the 2001 movie, Shrek. Written by Neil Diamond, and originally performed by this band, it was also a hit in 1966.
Who are The Monkees?
300
This country sent the first man to space in 1961, beating the U.S. by one month.
What is Russia?
Russia was part of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), aka the Soviet Union.
300
This article of female clothing became fashionable in the 1960s and features a hemline well above the knees that exposes the person's legs.
What is a mini-skirt?
300
Expo 67 was a world event that was held in this Canadian city to celebrate Canada’s 100th birthday.
What is Montreal?
300
This popular show, which lasted all through the 1960s, was named after the main character and was about a dog who often dashed off to save her human friend Timmy who was in trouble.
What is Lassie?
300
Canadian families enjoyed watching colour television for the first time in September 1966 on this Canadian channel.
What is the CBC or Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?
(Logo from 1966-1974)
300
This toy, which a gifted player can do many tricks with, involves a round object at the end of a long piece of string.
What is a yo-yo?
300
This is a popular rock band from California known for their songs about the beach, cars and surfing.
Who are The Beach Boys?
300
This film was based on a 1964 Broadway production of the same name. The title tune was recorded by the gravelly-voiced Louis Armstrong, the famous jazz trumpeter, and went on to win the Grammy awards for Song of the Year, and Best Vocal Performance, Male.
What is the film/title song, Hello, Dolly!?
400
This Communist leader launched the Cultural Revolution in China to get rid of traditional and capitalist ideas, which resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
Who is Mao Zedong or Chairman Mao?
400
It took until 1967 to make these devices small and light enough to be carried around and used on the go by accountants, finance professionals, math teachers, and students.
What are calculators?
400
This Canadian became Prime Minister in 1968 and was quite the celebrity because of his charm, and his son also became Prime Minister of Canada in 2015.
Who is Pierre Trudeau OR Pierre Elliott Trudeau?
400
This major sports event was first held in 1967 and was a game played the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, the Packers won 35-10.
What is the Super Bowl?
400
Families used this device to spin black circular disks to listen to music and do dances like the twist.
What is a record player?
400
These small round, glass objects were the prize of this game of the same name and the goal was to win them from the other players for keeps.
What are marbles?
400
Aretha Franklin was the singer of this 1967 song, whose seven-letter title is spelled out in the song lyrics.
What is Respect?
400
In the sports world, the catchy group chant of this 1969 song has been used by home team fans to mock, taunt, or say "goodbye" to an opponent or opposing team.
What is Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye?
500
The 1960s was dominated by conflict between the US and this small Asian country.
What is Vietnam?
500
In 1969, grocery stores introduced this device to help stores monitor inventory, price items, and charge customers efficiently at checkout.
What is a barcode scanner?
500
This term refers to the mass removal of Aboriginal children from their homes, communities and families of birth through the 1960s, and their subsequent adoption into predominantly non-Indigenous families across the US and Canada.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
500
The 1964 Summer Olympics were held in this country, which was the first ever Asian nation to host the games.
What is Japan?
500
These drinking establishments, which did not serve alcohol, became extremely popular in Canada as people met to discuss politics, listen to poetry, and to enjoy live music.
What are coffee houses?
500
This playground game, adapted from an Asian version from where it gets its name, involves a long piece of elastic and combines the skills of jump rope, hopscotch, and cat's cradle.
What is Chinese jump rope / yoki / jumpsies?
500
The lyrics of The Byrds' popular 1965 hit Turn! Turn! Turn! was based on this Old Testament book of wisdom.
What is Ecclesiastes?
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
500
Born into a family with little money, and growing up in the poor neighborhoods of north Memphis, he would understand the poverty he sings about in the song, In the Ghetto.
Who is Elvis (Presley)?