1960 scavenger hunt
Wilma Rudolph:
., first american woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track and field in 1960
Sound of Music:
(Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II; Howard Lindsey & Russel Crouse; 1959). Maria, a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria, becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. An Academy Award-winning 1965 film starring Julie Andrews.
Camelot:
After JFK died, his wife, Jackie, compared their time in the White House to this musical by Rogers and Hammerstein about King Arthur's Kingdom starring Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet,
Smokey Robinson:
An influential singer/songwriter with Motown. popular song, " tarcks of my tears"
Harper lee:
Author of To Kill A Mockingbird
Alan Shepard:
First American in space
NOW:
National Organization for Women (1966)
Malcolm X
Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960's. He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression "by any means necessary.
Cesar Chavez:
Organized Union Farm Workers ; help migratory farm workers gain better pay & working conditions
The Sound of Silence
Simon and Garfunkel 1965 main theme to the movie the Graduate
Miss America:
Starts in 1921, a beauty pageant, scholarship pageant, criticized woman to look a certain way, used to be held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Incredibly popular on television in the 1960s
The Bell Jar:
Sylvia Plath- was an American poet, novelist and short story writer who wrote this novel. It is about a young woman (Esther Greenwood)
Engel v. Vitale
The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.
Haight-Ashbury
The district in San Francisco that became popular for hippie counter-culture
The Flintstones
The first animated series on prime-time television, super popular in the 1960s
Twiggy
The first prominent teenage model. She was known for her androgynous looks, large eyes, long eyelashes, and thin build.
Texas Instruments:
The producer of the world's first transistorized pocket calculator in 1971.
Dick van Dyke show:
showed real-life problems that many couples of the period were dealing with, television Classic 1961-1966 also starred Mary Tyler more
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964
starring peter sellers, Georges c Scott, Slim Pickens, sterling Hayden, James Earl Jones, and keenen Wynn. ( tells the story of an American colonel who sends his bombers to attack Russia with A Bombs
Roger Maris:
the first person to break Babe Ruth's home run record
The Temptations:
top song for the Rock group "My Girl" 1965
Audrey Hepburn:
very popular actress in the 1960s movies included my fair Lady, Breakfast at Tifinies, charade...etc
Gladys Knight:
"Empress of Soul", African American singer and humanitarian and author
Silent Spring:
1962 book by Rachel Carson that started the environmental movement
The Other America
A 1962 book by left-wing social critic Michael Harrington, chronicling "the economic underworld of American life."
Unsafe at Any Speed:
A book by Ralph Nader that told of the dangers of automobiles that owners allegedly knew about and were keeping from the people to increase profits.
Valley of the Dolls
a novel by Susan, "dolls" is a slang term for depressants, became a movie staring Sharon Tate and Patty Duke.
NERF
a toy brand created by the Parker brothers that shot rubber darts, introduced in the 1960s and still is popular today.
The Graduate
movie in 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft
1960 debates
between Kennedy and Nixon
I Dream of Jeannie:
popular television comedy om NBC from 1965 to 1970, starring Barbara Eden, and Lary hangman
Shirley Chisholm:
first African American woman elected to Congress
John Glenn:
first American to orbit the earth
Simon and Garfunkel
folk singing duo from 1960s, top song "The Sound of Silence"
