Q: (CNN)As "Mad Men" returned for its seventh season, many viewers tuned in to see what happened next for Don, Peggy, Pete and the other characters of the hit AMC show. Many were eager to see the fabulous clothes the actors wore.

We can't help but wonder -- was all that glamour real, or is it just the magic of TV? We asked readers to share their snapshots from 1967-69 and show us what the late '60s really looked like.

Janie Lambert, 61, says she thinks "Mad Men" portrays the decade's conservative fashion and mod look accurately. But she remembers the late 1960s as more colorful and vibrant.

"My favorite looks in the '60s were the bright colors and bold patterns, stripes and polka dots, miniskirts, long hair and pale lipstick," Lambert says.

'Mad Men' and the other 1960s

Many iReporters strived to keep up with the fast pace of the changing fashion in the late '60s. Patricia Anne Alfano, 66, went from a British-inspired mod style cheerleader to a hippie in a matter of three years.

In 1967, Alfano was an "Eaglette" -- an NFL cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles. Unlike today, the cheerleaders were covered from head to toe. The uniforms had long sleeves, and the cheerleaders wore gloves and cloth helmets.

"From the early 1960s until 1967, I spent tons of time on my hair," she says, noting her mod hairdo in the picture is actually a wig. "Wigs were big back then. Everyone had at least one."

In 1968, the style began to evolve. Alfano still spent a lot of time on her hair, but her peers began heavily criticizing all things materialistic, so the style became more casual.

Answer the following questions:
1. What TV show is returning?
2. Including this year, how many seasons has the show aired?
3. What time period is portrayed in the show?
4. Was Frank a listed character of the series?
5. Who were the main people of the series?
6. Are they the only people on the series?
7. Did anyone specific speak to the series accuracy?
8. What was her name?
9. How old is she?
10. Does she think the time period was justified in the series?
11. Did she enjoy the dull color that was seen during the period?
12. What was one of her favorite parts of the sixties?
13. Anything else?
14. Did anyone else speak to the time period?
15. Who?
16. How old is she?
17. What was her job during the sixties?
18. What team?
19. Do they wear the same outfits today to cheer?
20. Do they wear short skirts?
A: 1. Mad Men
2. Seven
3. The 1960s
4. unknown
5. Don, Peggy, Pete
6. No
7. Yes
8. Janie Lambert
9. 61
10. Yes
11. No
12. The bright colors and bold patterns
13. Also stripes and polka dots
14. Yes
15. Patricia Anne Alfano
16. 66
17. cheerleader
18. The Philadelphia Eagles.
19. No
20. No
Q: Washington (CNN) -- A late evening meeting between President Barack Obama and the leaders of the House and Senate failed to reach agreement Wednesday on a spending plan to avert a government shutdown, but all the participants said progress was made and talks would continue.

If there is no deal by midnight Friday, when the current spending authorization measure expires, parts of the government will close down.

Obama called the 90-minute talks with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, "constructive" and he said they narrowed and clarified the outstanding issues.

"I remain confident that if we're serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown," Obama said in brief remarks to reporters. "But it's going to require a sufficient sense of urgency from all parties involved" to prevent a shutdown that "could have real effects on everyday Americans."

Both Reid and Boehner told reporters in their own brief comments that the meeting made progress in narrowing their differences, and that their staffs would work through the night to try to reach further consensus.

"I have confidence we can get this done," said Reid, who criticized Boehner and Republicans earlier in the day for intransigence. "We're not there yet."

Boehner, standing next to Reid, said "we do have some honest differences," and he emphasized there was no agreement on either a specific figure for spending cuts for the rest of the current fiscal year or on policy issues that the Republicans want included in the measure, such as specifically prohibiting funding for abortions.

Answer the following questions:
1. When is the deadline?
2. What will be out of time then?
A: 1. by midnight Friday,
2. when the current spending authorization measure expires
Q: When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.

Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Thenhe told me of his plan. "It's very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I'll just toss the coin to decide the answers. That way, I'm sure I'll get half the questions right."

The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.

The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. "Oh, good," he said to the teacher, "Have you got the result of the test?" The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

"I'm terribly sorry, Fred," he said, "You failed!"

Answer the following questions:
1. Did Fred do enough work?
2. Where was he supposed to work?
3. What did he do instead?
4. What was Fred doing the night before the test?
5. Did Fred plan to guess his way through the test?
6. By flipping what?
7. How many questions did he have to get right to pass?
8. What fraction of the total number of test questions was this?
9. Who did Fred see in the hallway?
10. True or False: Fred passed his test.
11. How did the professor determine this?
12. Where did he get the coin from?
13. True or False: The test was multiple-choice.
14. Was Fred confident in the testing room?
15. How long did it take him to finish his test.
16. What was the narrator doing the night before the test?
17. True or False: It was a beginning-of-term test.
18. What is Fred's surname?
19. Was the narrator a dedicated student?
20. How many of his friends worked hard like he did?
A:
1. no
2. in the library
3. played
4. watching TV
5. yes
6. a coin
7. fifty
8. half
9. the professor
10. False
11. flipped a coin
12. his pocket
13. false
14. yes
15. half an hour before the rest
16. studying
17. False
18. Baines
19. yes
20. very few