Cool 60's quiz over at the Mad Men AMC site....

[WCGreen]

It's kind of difficult....

I score 12/15....


http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/


Scroll down to the 1960 Quiz at the bottom right...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ack!

I am ashamed to even admit my score....6/15! And I was nominally an adult then...

*sigh*

:blush:

But yes, it is a cool quiz....

[Richard Steele]

5. Well I'm glad you admitted it- I feel much better now!

Thanks! :hug:

[Richard Steele]

2. Wow- I only scored 6/15, and 3 of those were on "educated guesses"!

Good thing I wasn't around back then- I would have been totally lost!

[SteppingRazor]

15. I also got 6/15. But, heck, I wasn't even around for almost 20 years after that. n/t

[IcyPeas]

3. 4 out of 15 -- pretty bad...... and some of them were guesses!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. 10/15 -- not bad for someone not alive then.

[stanwyck]

7. Damn you, Anarchist

I got 8 out of 15. Who knew Ken had a last name?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Actually, I got that one wrong, too.

;)

[femmocrat]

6. Some of those questions were more like "trivia". I only got 9/15.

[mwdem]

9. 8/15. I love the show!

I'm getting ready for tonight's episode.

[WCGreen]

11. It's a repeat.....

[mwdem]

18. That was a disappointment!

[stanwyck]

13. I enjoy the era

the clothes, furniture, cars. The blatant sexism is unsettling. And what's with the guy (Don's bohemian girlfriend's boyfriend...) with long hair...in 1960? Seems an anachronism. The guy looks like 1972.

[mwdem]

19. Yeah, he seems out of place.

He's supposed to be like a beatnik?

[stanwyck]

22. Yep. But the film that exists

of "real" beatniks shows people who are surprisingly hygienic and almost preppy looking. This guy looks like a grunge rocker out of Seattle or a '70's college student.

[BlueJazz]

10. 15/15

[WCGreen]

12. I missed the Ken one and the cost of the Tomato Soup can...

And one other I don't remember...

[stanwyck]

14. missed both of those

buy, hey, I knew the tougher (and more relevant) ones!
Warhol was robbed!

[kay1864]

16. When I first saw it, I thought the show had some anachronisms:

- Ad featuring a Mercury astronaut (1961)
- Secretary getting the Pill from a doctor (1965?)
- Ad agency considered for Nixon's campaign (1959)

BUT it turns out all of these are consistent with 1960. (thanks Wikipedia)

- The Mercury astronauts were named in April 1959, and were celebrities up through the first Mercury launch in May 1961

- The Pill was known to be useful as a contraceptive since 1957. However, it wasn't approved as a contraceptive until June 1960 (and not marketed to doctors until July 1961). Despite that, there was much word-of-mouth 'marketing'--at least 500,000 women had used it prior to June 1960.

- Nixon wasn't named as a candidate until July 1960

Cool show!

[stanwyck]

23. I also thought the easy acceptance of the pill

by the women in the office and the doctor seemed very premature. I was in college in the '70's and the pill was widely used. But our older sisters who were in college in the '60's didn't have the easy access and few used the pill.

[musette_sf]

25. my mom was on the pill

since 1963 or 1964, i believe. then her doc asked her to take a break for awhile in 1966 (i guess due to the high hormone levels that used to be in them). guess who had a new baby sister in 1967?

[terrya]

17. 11/15

I could kick myself for missing the question about who was the first to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[Spirochete]

20. I got 9/15

but Ken's last name was just a random guess I happened to get right.

[lumberingbear]

21. 11/15 here.

:)

[CBHagman]

24. Ten out of 15.

I was two years old that year!