Okay, I'm gonna try something a little different today: attached are 10 questions related to the year 1960. Think about them, and see if you can come up with the same answer I am including just a ways down.

1. Who was the US pilot sentenced to ten years in a Soviet prison for flying over Russia?

2. Inspired by the popularity of Elvis Presley, this Broadway play featured such songs as "Put on a Happy Face" and "Kids."   Name the musical.

3. Who played Bob on "My Three Sons" which began its twelve year run on CBS during this year.

4. Name the major engineering project in Egypt that eventually caused the ancient Temple of the Isis to be covered with water.

5. Who retired as manager of the New York Yankees this year?

6. Name the thirty six pound communications balloon put into orbit in 1960.

7. What was unique about the movies "Behind the Great Wall" and "Scent of Mystery?"

8. What was the SS. Hope?

9. Name the criminal, executed this year, who penned the book "Cell 2455 Death Row."

10. What famous figure commented about her fashion budget of $30,000 a year: "to spend that much I'd have to wear sable underwear!"?


Scroll down a bit for the answers...don't cheat

And here are the answers.. please don't cheat!

1. Francis Gary Powers.

2. "Bye Bye Birdie."

3. William Frawley.

4. The Aswan Dam.

5. Casey Stengal.

6. "Echo I."

7. They were known as "smellies," films that actually emitted odors.

8. An ex-Navy destroyer outfitted as a floating hospital.

9. Caryl Chessman.

10. Jackie Kennedy.