Sixties Quiz – Random General Knowledge – 10 Questions

Ultimate Sixties - Random General Knowledge Quiz

1 / 10

A Bigger Splash is a large pop art painting by which British artist?

A) David Hockney

B) Yoko Ono

C) Peter Blake

D) Richard Hamilton

2 / 10

Who played Captain Virgil Hilts in the 1963 film The Great Escape?

A) Steve McQueen

B) Rock Hudson

C) Yul Brynner

D) Dustin Hoffman

3 / 10

The following films were all nominated for Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards (1965). Which film won the Award?

A) My Fair Lady

B) Mary Poppins

C) Zorba the Greek

D) Dr. Strangelove

4 / 10

This a detail from a sixties music album recorded by:

A) Dusty Springfield

B) Barbra Streisand

C) Marianne Faithfull

D) Petula Clark

5 / 10

Which number one hit came first?

A) Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale

B) Bobby Goldsboro - Honey

C) Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

D) Merrilee Rush - Angel of the Morning

6 / 10

Which word is missing in this song title: Concrete & ______?

A) Love

B) Marble

C) Clay

D) Crumbles

7 / 10

Which event happened first?

A) President Kennedy Establishes the Peace Corps

B) The Woodstock music festival takes place in New York

C) Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

D) Sound of Music is awarded an Oscar for Best Picture

8 / 10

Which teams dominated the NHL and Stanley Cup in the sixties?

A) Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks

B) Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs

C) Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers

D) Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins

9 / 10

Which group was the house band in the TV series Where the Action Is?

A) The Newbeats

B) The Supremes

C) The Happenings

D) Paul Revere & the Raiders

10 / 10

The general offensive and uprising of Tet Mau Than is commonly referred to as:

A) The Tet offensive

B) The North Mau uprising

C) The Lieutenants Revolt

D) The war of the Condor

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1960s Random General Knowledge Quiz

Difficult Sixties General Knowledge Questions

This 1960s general knowledge quiz has ten random questions about memorable people and events from a decade that changed the world.

Questions range from politics, movies, events, sports, and TV shows to simple trivia.

We draw each set of questions from a pool of 300 questions in our database, meaning each quiz will be unique and slightly different from the previous one.

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What Kind of Questions are on the Sixties Quiz?

Many questions are about entertainment, like 1960s pop music, films, and TV series. Like these:

• Who plays the role of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho from 1960?
• Who gets her oats in the Beatles song “Two of Us”?
• Who had a Top Ten hit with “Sweet Nothin’s” in 1960?

Other questions focus on famous persons like celebrities, politicians, writers, and painters.

• Who wrote “A Spaniard in the Works“, a book first published in 1965?
• Who was the President of France between 1959 and 1969?
• Who hosted the TV show “American Bandstand“?

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The quiz was originally published as “trivia questions for the 1960s” on Ultimate60s.com, a website discontinued in 2021.