Sixties Quiz – Random General Knowledge – 10 Questions

Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics

Paul Revere & the Raiders appeared regularly on national television in the U.S. , most notably on Dick Clark’s Where the Action Is, Happening ’68, and It’s Happening. Where the Action Is had its own stable of performers, most notably Paul Revere & the Raiders, who served as the de facto house band. When the group departed the show in 1966, they were replaced by The Robbs.

Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 American film based on the play of the same title by Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Sam Spiegel. Elizabeth Taylor plays Catherine Holly, a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance after her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died on summer holiday in Europe. The late Sebastian’s wealthy mother, Violet Venable, is played by Katharine Hepburn.

Both Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor were nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Actress in a leading role, but did not win. Simone Signoret (Room at the Top) was awarded the Oscar that year.

Glen Campbell’s hit Rhinestone Cowboy starts:
I’ve been walkin’ these streets so long
Singin’ the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle’s the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
There’s been a load of compromisin’
On the road to my horizon
But I’m gonna be where the lights are shinin’ on me…

The Windmills of Your Mind is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand. It was featured as the theme for the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the leading roles.

The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968. Noel Harrison reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart with his version of the song. Dusty Springfield’s version reached number 31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song has also been recorded by numerous artists, such as Neil Diamond, Val Doonican, The Anita Kerr Singers, Alison Moyet, Elaine Paige, Jimmie Rodgers, the Sandpipers, Barbra Streisand, Vanilla Fudge, and Edward Woodward.

The French lyrics are written by Eddy Marnay and the English lyrics by Americans Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman.

Running Scared is a song Roy Orbison. It is written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. It was released in March 1961 and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In Britain, it peaked at No. 9.

Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India and central figure of the Indian National Congress party. She served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

Georgios Papadopoulos was the head of the military coup in Greece in 1967. The military junta ruled the country from 1967 to 1974.

Henry Miller did not received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

John Ernst Steinbeck was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded in 1964, but refused to accept the prize, and Samuel Beckett was awarded in 1969.

Strawberry Fields is a landscaped section in New York City’s Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of former Beatle John Lennon. It is named after the Beatles’ song Strawberry Fields Forever written by Lennon.