Sixties Quiz – Random General Knowledge – 10 Questions

Ultimate Sixties - Random General Knowledge Quiz

1 / 10

Catch-22 is a novel written by:

A) Joseph Heller

B) Anthony Burgess

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) John le Carré

2 / 10

Who plays a leading role in the movie Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)?

A) Marlon Brando

B) Frank Sinatra

C) Yul Brynner

D) John Wayne

3 / 10

Who directed the second Beatles film Help?

A) George Martin

B) Richard Lester

C) Steven Soderbergh

D) Blake Edwards

4 / 10

This a detail from a sixties music album released by:

A) The Pretty Things

B) Small Faces

C) The Tremeloes

D) The Rolling Stones

5 / 10

What is the name of the group?

A) The Who

B) Pink Floyd

C) Procol Harum

D) The Idle Race

6 / 10

The original Woodstock Festival in New York was held in what year?

A) 1979

B) 1972

C) 1963

D) 1969

7 / 10

Which candidate was the target of an assassination attempt during the presidential primaries in 1972?

A) Jerry Brown

B) Spiro Agnew

C) Hubert Humphrey

D) George Wallace

8 / 10

Which team won the first championship of the American Basketball Association in 1968?

A) Pittsburgh Pipers

B) New York Nets

C) Kentucky Colonels

D) Houston Mavericks

9 / 10

Who played the role of Rowdy Yates in the western series Rawhide?

A) Clint Eastwood

B) Michael Landon

C) Broderick Crawford

D) Arnold Schwarzenegger

10 / 10

Which company was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher?

A) Dollar store

B) GAP

C) Target

D) Walmart

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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.

People consider it a challenging quiz and often score around 50%. Can you do better?

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.