1. Told it to a human operator
   Twirled a circular dial with holes for each number
2. Wrote in on a stylus
   Touched a single key the correct number of times, waited, then did so again for each digit

Phones of the 1950s and '60s were called "rotary dial" phones. It's possible that a Gen-Zer would just stare at one in perplexity and need to be told how to use it, just like people did with the first phones in the 1920s.

1. Airplanes
   City parks
2. Restaurants
   None of these

Hey, you could smoke just about ANYWHERE in the 1960s. We'd joke that the only place you couldn't was a Nicotine Anonymous meeting, but NA wasn't founded until 1982!

1. Fulgencio Batista
   Fidel Castro
2. Raul Castro
   Che Guevara

To say that Fidel Castro led Cuba "through the 1960s" is an understatement. His rule (it's probably safe to call it that) began in the 1950s and lasted until the last 2000s, when his brother Raul succeeded him.

1. Ten
   Dime
2. Five
   Change

You don't hear this term much nowadays. The old "five-and-dime" tradition still goes on, though, in today's dollar stores.

1. Correcting mistakes in typing
   Decorating the margins of letters
2. Saving money on stationery
   Sticking notes to walls

Fun fact: Correction fluid ("Liquid Paper" is a brand name) was invented by a Texas secretary. It seems that necessity really is the mother of invention!

1. Diet dinner
   Hungry Man dinner
2. Instant dinner
   TV dinner

These were commonly called "TV dinners" back in the day, because they were handy to eat right in front of the television. Nowadays, of course, people eat all sorts of meals in front of the TV, even ones made from scratch. (Some people would say this is really not an improvement in our lives).

1. Ham
   Lite
2. Personal
   Transistor

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in 1956 for their work on the transistor, a key device in electronics. Before long, every cool kid was walking around with a personal transistor radio.

1. Peter Bogdanovich
   Jonathan Frakes
2. Glen A. Larson
   Gene Roddenberry

Some people forget that "Star Trek" wasn't initially a success; it struggled in the ratings. Today, though, the concept has become its own fictional universe, with TV shows, films and an alternate timeline.

1. 1963
   1964
2. 1965
   1966

Kennedy was elected in 1961 and shot to death in 1963. The news rocked the world, but especially the U.S.

1. Johnny Carson
   Ed McMahon
2. Jack Paar
   Danny Kaye

Johnny Carson was an icon of American television. He helmed the "Tonight Show" from 1962 to 1992.

1. Getting divorced
   Separating for a time
2. Sharing a bed
   Adopting a child

"The Brady Bunch" is the first major TV show to portray this. However, some people point to a short-lived, and much less watched, comedy called "Mary Kay and Johnny," which broke this ground even earlier.

1. Barracudas
   Dogs
2. Pigs
   Owls

"Bay of Pigs" has become synonymous with disastrous failure. President Kennedy authorized the overthrow attempt.

1. My Three Sons
   Saturday Night Live
2. The Today Show
   The Tonight Show

The beloved "Saturday Night Live" premiered in 1975. "Today" and "The Tonight Show" ran throughout the 1960s and are still going strong, while "My Three Sons" bowed in 1972.

1. Bernal Heights
   Haight-Ashbury
2. Noe Valley
   Russian Hill

The Haight-Ashbury district was a magnet for young people in the late 1960s, especially during the "Summer of Love." Today, it's largely an expensive residential area, like most San Francisco neighborhoods.

1. Julie Andrews
   Anne Bancroft
2. Brigitte Bardot
   Sally Field

Andrews stepped into the shoes of Maria von Trapp, whose life story was first told as a musical play. "The Sound of Music" is about the von Trapp family singers and their flight from Nazi-dominated Austria in the run-up to World War II.

1. Install a pacemaker
   Isolate the AIDS virus
2. Reinflate a lung
   Transplant an organ into a human

Continuing the theme of "Americans weren't the first to do everything," it was Dr. Christiaan Barnard, a South African, who pioneered transplantation. His patient lived for 18 days after the surgery.

1. Jimi Hendrix
   Jim Morrison
2. Janis Joplin
   None of them

These three 1960s musicians all died at the age of 27. However, none died in the 1960s. Hendrix and Joplin died in 1970, while Morrison died in 1971.

1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
   "Just put your lips together and blow."
2. "We're going to need a bigger boat."
   "What we've got here is failure to communicate."

"Cool Hand Luke" is about a prisoner in the Deep South who refuses to be broken by the system. Paul Newman played the title character. It's a prison warden, though, who speaks the famous line.

1. Doris Day
   Janet Leigh
2. Hedda Hopper
   Elizabeth Taylor

Day specialized in nice-girl roles in clean movies. This played well in the 1950s and early '60s, but not in the liberated late 1960s.

1. California
   New York
2. Tennessee
   Vermont

Woodstock was held on a dairy farm in upstate New York. It's now on the National Register of Historic Places.

1. "Mr. Denton on Doomsday"
   "To Serve Man"
2. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
   "Where Is Everybody?"

This was one of "Twilight Zone's" better-known and beloved episodes. Shatner portrayed a man on an airplane, who is the only one who can see a grotesque creature on the wing. The episode aired in 1963.

1. Elvis Presley
   James Dean
2. John Fogerty
   Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa was more than just a musician. He was a filmmaker and a countercultural figure. Fun fact: Zappa also famously named two of his children "Moon Unit" and "Dweezil."

1. Bicycles with banana seats
   The stepside pickup
2. Razor scooters
   The "Woody" wagon

Station wagons with wood paneling on the sides were an iconic 1960s things. Surfers in California and Hawaii have taken these old-fashioned rides to heart.

1. Edward Kennedy
   Hubert H. Humphrey
2. Walter Mondale
   Geraldine Ferraro

Humphrey almost spent his life working as a pharmacist; his father was one, and wanted to give Hubert a partnership in the store. But when Humphrey attested to being physically ill with unhappiness, his father gave him his blessing to go back to school and study political science.

1. Buzz Aldrin
   Yuri Gagarin
2. Neil Armstrong
   Gary Powers

For most of the 1960s, the Soviet Union was definitively winning the "space race." This trend started in the 1950s with the USSR's launch of the unmanned Sputnik.

1. The Dyson vacuum
   The Atari game system
2. The microwave oven
   The flush toilet

The microwave didn't really gain popularity until the 1970s. It was first seen as a way to make complicated meals, like Thanksgiving dinner, in a fraction of the time. In truth, it gave rise to a number of convenience foods, but did not supplant the traditional oven for real baking and cooking.

1. 1964
   1965
2. 1966
   1967

The first Mustangs were called the "1964 1/2" Mustangs, because they rolled out late in the year. This wasn't typical -- usually, the first units of a new model year are released late in the previous year.

1. The band
   A Muddy Waters song
2. A Bob Dylan album
   All of these

Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967. The idea of "a rolling stone gathers no moss" clearly was an important one in the culture of that time.

1. Buffalo Springfield
   Creedence Clearwater Revival
2. The Byrds
   The Rolling Stones

Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American band. Their famous song begins "There's something happenin' here," and was subtitled "Stop, Hey, What's That Sound," so radio listeners would recognize it.

1. True
2. False

Many inventions don't become popular in the same year or decade in which they are created. (See also: the microwave oven). The computer mouse, invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart, is one such item.

1. Buzz Aldrin
   Neil Armstrong
2. Michael Collins
   Alan Shepard

In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Michael Collins piloted the lunar module while they explored the surface. Alan Shepard was part of the later Apollo 14 lunar mission.

1. Cristobal Balenciaga
   Christian Dior
2. Mary Quant
   Elsa Schiaparelli

Mary Quant was a British designer in the vanguard of the Mod fashion movement. She popularized the miniskirt and hot pants, for which heterosexual men everywhere remember her with gratitude.

1. Robert Kennedy
   Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Pope Jean Paul II
   Both #1 and #2

1968 was a traumatic year for America. African-Americans lost one of their most important leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Then the late president John F. Kennedy's younger brother, Robert, always called "Bobby," was also shot to death.

1. Six
   Eight
2. 10
   13

This was commemorated by the book, "Thirteen Days in May." The crisis, which involved the Soviets moving missiles onto Cuban soil within striking distance of the U.S., had the world on the brink of nuclear war.

1. Drainpipe jeans
   Dungarees
2. Jaggers
   They didn't have skinny jeans

Hey, the 2010s didn't invent the skinny jean, or trouser. They had these in the 1960s, and frankly, we think the name "drainpipe" sounds a little cooler!