1. the Cold War
   the Long War
2. the Mason-Dixon rivalry
   the Great Schism

Because there was almost no armed combat, the war was "cold." The name accurately reflects the chilling of relations between the U.S. and other capitalist states and the USSR and its satellite Communist states.

1. he was Catholic
   he had been divorced
2. he had sympathies for the USSR
   he had never served in the military

JFK had not been divorced, and he certainly did serve in the military, during WWII. But the fact that he was a Roman Catholic was difficult for many Protestant voters to tolerate. One newspaper cartoon of the day showed the Pope packing his bags to move to Washington if Kennedy were elected.

1. Apollo V
   Apollo 11
2. Gemini 3
   Saturn V

Fun fact: Some conspiracy theorists believe that Stanley Kubrick used his filmmaking skills to fake the moon landing for NASA. They see little Danny Torrance's "Apollo 11" sweater in "The Shining" as Kubrick's sly nod to that.

1. Louisville, Kentucky
   Montgomery, Alabama
2. Selma, Alabama
   Washington D.C.

King made the famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The year was 1963.

1. Cassius Clay
   Sonny Liston
2. Gene Tunney
   Joe Louis

Clay, of course, would later change his name to Muhammad Ali. But at 18 -- his age when medaling -- he still went by what he would later call his "slave name."

1. Dwight Eisenhower
   John F. Kennedy
2. Richard Nixon
   Harry S Truman

Dwight Eisenhower was president through the beginning of 1961. Fun fact: In 1917 while training Army officers in Kansas, Eisenhower was the commanding officer of a young lieutenant named F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was writing the first draft of "This Side of Paradise" under the cover of studying military strategy.

1. Neil Armstrong
   Yuri Gagarin
2. Gary Powers
   Pratik Joshi

The USSR was the first nation to send up a satellite and the first to put a man in space. President Kennedy responded by getting the US involved in a "space race," or competition for superiority in space exploration.

1. domino theory
   cancer theory
2. pawn sacrifice theory
   red sandwich theory

The idea was that if Vietnam fell to Communism, other Asian nations would follow in quick succession. The visual image was one of a line of falling dominoes.

1. on Air Force One
   at Arlington National Cemetery
2. at the hospital in Dallas
   in the Rose Garden

The circumstances required great haste, so Johnson was sworn in mid-flight. Because there was no Bible at hand, he used a Catholic missal that was on the plane at the time.

1. Chicago
   Detroit
2. Nashville
   Tallahassee

"Motown" is a mashup of "motor" and "town," for Detroit's auto industry. Fun fact: Berry Gordy Jr.'s youngest son is also in the music business under the name "Redfoo," half of LMFAO.

1. California
   Maine
2. Massachusetts
   New York

Kennedy was born in Brookline, to wealthy Joe Kennedy. He later went to one of America's most elite universities, Harvard.

1. Marvin Gaye
   Pete Fountain
2. Jermaine Jackson
   Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson was a co-founder of the group, which got its start in the 1950s. But it was in the 1960s that they really found success, with singles like "Tears of a Clown" and "You've Really Got a Hold on Me."

1. 1966
   1967
2. 1968
   1969

The successful moon mission was a badly-needed shot in the arm for America. The previous year, it had been rocked by Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and race riots in major cities.

1. Spiro Agnew
   Hubert Humphrey
2. Gerald Ford
   Adlai Stevenson

Humphrey was a Minnesotan (though born in South Dakota) who spent most of his political career in the Senate. He did run for president in 1968, but lost to Richard Nixon.

1. Pass Christian, Mississippi
   Montgomery, Alabama
2. Memphis, Tennessee
   New York City

James Earl Ray shot the civil rights leader in Memphis in 1968. Ray was a small-time criminal who had supported George Wallace's segregationist campaign and dreamed of emigrating to Rhodesia, an African nation dominated by a white minority. Ray died in prison in 1998.

1. punks
   preppies
2. rockers
   trads

The "rocker" look was very similar to bikers or "greasers" in the United States -- lots of black leather and shaggy hair. This contrasted with the neatness and fashion-consciousness of the mods, who liked Italian couture.

1. Operation Marauder
   the Pusan Perimeter incident
2. the My Lai massacre
   the Gulf of Tonkin incident

The U.S. had been supporting the French colonial government since the 1950s. But a clash between a U.S. warship and North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, in 1964, is seen as a flashpoint for what Americans think of as the Vietnam War.

1. abortion
   child labor
2. the death penalty
   the monarchy

England, which had hanged minors for theft into the 19th century, abolished the death penalty overall in 1964. Abortion was illegal at that time, but was legalized not long after.

1. Accord
   Insight
2. Mustang
   Tucker

The Ford Mustang scaled down Detroit "muscle" into a sleek coupe frame. The original 1960s Mustang design was so beloved that it was the basis for the mid-2000s "throwback" redesign.

1. flapper
   twee
2. mod
   punk

The mods were known for their brightly-colored and spiffy clothes, as parodied in the "Austin Powers" movies. They also liked to get around on Vespa motor scooters.

1. Oleg Cassini
   Kenneth Cole
2. Elsa Schiaparelli
   Mary Quant

Andres Courreges was also making miniskirts in the 1960s. However, it's British designer Quant who gets most of the credit.

1. Florence Ballard
   Martha Reeves
2. Mary Wilson
   Diana Ross

The Supremes are commonly thought of as a trio, with Ballard, Wilson and Ross being the key members. But Barbara McGlown was the fourth member, until she got engaged. (Martha Reeves, mentioned above, was a singer associated with the Vandellas).

1. acrylic
   Kevlar
2. rayon
   polyamide

Kwolek was working on a lighter-weight replacement for steel in high-performance tires. But her creation, Kevlar, quickly became the standard in body armor for police and military work.

1. academia
   fashion
2. pop music
   visual arts

In the mid-1960s, the popularity of the Beatles and other UK acts was seen to threaten American music, like Motown soul and folk rock. But the death knell for these musical genres was quite premature.

1. Abbey Road
   Help!
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
   Frampton Comes Alive!

It wasn't released until near the end of the '60s, but "Sgt. Pepper" epitomizes the kind of music and art we now associate with the 1960s, full of drug references and Eastern influences, complete with a brightly-colored psychedelic album cover.

1. the Dave Clark Five
   Herman's Hermits
2. the Monkees
   the Kinks

The Monkees were what we'd today call a "multimedia" project: a band created for a television show, whose music would then be played on the radio and sold in stores. The musical chops of the actors varied: Dave Nesmith and Peter Tork were primarily musicians, while Mickey Dolenz is mostly known as an actor. Davy Jones was both an actor and singer.

1. Marcus
   Michael
2. James
   Andrew

His original first name was Michael King Jr. How could he be a "Junior" both times? Because his father, Michael King, changed both their names to honor the father of the Protestant faith.

1. UC Berkeley
   UCLA
2. Harvard
   Georgia State

A charismatic graduate student, Mario Savio, led the long-running student protest. They were objecting to a campus ban on political activism, mostly in relation to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement.

1. Arkansas
   California
2. Oregon
   North Dakota

Nixon's presidency is overshadowed by his impeachment and resignation (which happened in the 1970s, not the '60s). For this reason, he isn't recognized for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency, ending the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and recommending widespread treatment, not criminalization, of drug offenses.

1. the laser
   the e-cigarette
   the internet
2. #1 and #2
   all of these

This might come as a surprise to you, but all of these inventions have their roots in the '60s -- even the e-cigarette, which seems like a very recent innovation. It should be noted that the internet, in 1969, existed as ARPANET, a joint military-academic project a long way from the World Wide Web we now enjoy.

1. Sean Connery
   Timothy Dalton
2. George Lazenby
   both #1 and #3

Connery was the first Bond on the big screen, and many fans' favorite to this day. Lazenby only did one film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," in 1969.

1. downhill skiing
   Formula 1 driving
2. modeling
   politics

Twiggy was the epitome of female beauty in 1960s London. She has since worked as an actress and a singer.

1. Camelot
   Illyria
2. Dunsinane
   the Star Chamber

Kennedy's period in the White House was short-lived, and many Americans who were alive back then see this as an almost-mythical time, touched by the president and Jackie Kennedy's youth, intellect and glamour. Hence the name "Camelot."

1. Bobby Jones
   Jack Nicklaus
2. Arnold Palmer
   John McEnroe

Yes, the 1960s were a turbulent time -- but even so, golfers continued to hit the links. And no player dominated the game in the 1960s like Arnold Palmer, who had begun competing in 1955.

1. Skylab launched
   Malcolm X assassinated
2. Nixon resigns
   both #1 and #3

Nixon stepped down from the presidency in 1973, after being linked to the Watergate break-in. Skylab was launched the same year, and fell to earth in 1979.