Sixties Quiz – Random General Knowledge – 10 Questions

Ultimate Sixties - Random General Knowledge Quiz

1 / 10

The Bell Jar is a novel written by:

A) Marlen Haushofer

B) Hannah Green

C) Sylvia Plath

D) Ira Levin

2 / 10

Who plays the leading role as George in the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A) Peter O'Toole

B) Robert Redford

C) Sidney Poitier

D) Richard Burton

3 / 10

Which of the following classic movies from the sixties did NOT win an Academy Award for Best Picture?

A) Midnight Cowboy

B) Doctor Zhivago

C) My Fair Lady

D) Tom Jones

4 / 10

Which album came first?

A) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

B) The Who - My Generation

C) Johnny Cash - The Sound of Johnny Cash

D) Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

5 / 10

What is the title of the 1964-hit song by Chuck Berry?

A) No Particular Place to Go

B) Memphis, Tennessee

C) I Got To Find My Baby

D) Promised Land

6 / 10

What are the opening lyrics for I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)?

A) I bet you're wonderin' how I knew

B) You could have told me yourself

C) These tears I can't hold inside

D) I know a man ain't supposed to cry

7 / 10

In what year was John F. Kennedy assassinated?

A) 1968

B) 1967

C) 1963

D) 1960

8 / 10

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, swimmer Dawn Fraser won the 100 m freestyle event for the third time. Fraser represented which country?

A) South Africa

B) United States

C) Australia

D) Great Britain

9 / 10

Who played the main character in the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive in the early sixties?

A) James Garner

B) Clint Eastwood

C) Steve McQueen

D) James Arness

10 / 10

Which was first introduced in the sixties?

A) Nonstick cookware with teflon

B) Disposable cameras

C) The video game Space Invaders

D) McDonald's Big Mac

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1960s Random General Knowledge Quiz

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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.