Youth Quake Factoids

What were the top-rated TV westerns of the 1960s?

Gunsmoke

Wagon Train

Bonanza

Top TV Comedies of the 1960s

The Andy Griffith Show

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.

Bewitched

Who wrote the Best-selling Books of the 1960s?
Allen Drury	Advise and Consent
Irving Stone	The Agony and the Ecstasy
Katherine Anne Porter	Ship of Fools
Morris L. West	The Shoes of the Fisherman
John Le Carre	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
James A. Michener	The Source
Jacqueline Susann	Valley of the Dolls
Elia Kazan	The Arrangement
Arthur Hailey	Airport
Philip Roth	Portnoy’s Complaint

Who were the most popular movie actors of the 1960s?

Rock Hudson

John Wayne

Jack Lemmon

Sean Connery

Lee Marvin

Sidney Poitier

Paul Newman

Top of the Charts in the 1960s

El Paso

Wonderland by Light

Peppermint Twister

Go Away Little Girl

There! I’ve Said It Again

Downtown

The Sounds of Silence

Kind of a Drag

Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)

Crimson and Clover

Beatles Hits of the 1960s

I Want to Hold Your Hand

She Loves You

Can’t Buy Me Love

Love Me Do

I Feel Fine

Eight Days a Week

Ticket To Ride

Help!

Yesterday

Paperback Writer

Penny Lane

All You Need Is Love

Hello Goodbye

Hey Jude

Which movies won ‘Best Picture’ Academy awards in the 1960s?

The Apartment

West Side Story

Lawrence of Arabia

Tom Jones

My Fair Lady

The Sound of Music

A Man for All Seasons

In the Heat of the Night

Oliver!

Midnight Cowboy

Winners of the Best Actress Oscars in the 1960s

Elizabeth Taylor (twice)

Sophia Loren

Anne Bancroft

Patricia Neal

Julie Andrews

Julie Christie

Katherine Hepburn

Carol Reed

Maggie Smith

Which famous U.S. boxer won a gold metal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome?

Cassius Clay (later to be known as Muhammed Ali)

What did Clarabell, the silent clown, say on the last episode of Howdy Doody in 1960?

“Goodnight, kids”

What first appeared in the 1960s?

aluminum pop cans

the Pill

Ken dolls

electric toothbrushes

child car seats

Weight Watchers

push-button telephones

Spider Man

Pop-Tarts

zip codes

miniskirts

Diet Pepsi

What expressions first came into usage in the 1960s?

bluegrass

sit-in

laser

splashdown

Beatlemania

skateboard

dude

cable TV

acid rock

guru

uppers

headhunter

Fads of the 1960s

guitars

worry beads

GI Joe dolls

body painting

Tarot cards

psychedelic art

underground newspapers

dune buggies

What was the average life expectancy in the 1960s?
Males	66 years
Females	73 years