Sixties Quiz – Random General Knowledge – 10 Questions

Ultimate Sixties - Random General Knowledge Quiz

1 / 10

Who wrote A Spaniard in the Works, a book first published in 1965?

A) John Lennon (The Beatles)

B) Bob Dylan

C) Ray Davies (The Kinks)

D) Julio Iglesias

2 / 10

Who is the main character, played by Audrey Hepburn, in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

A) Natasha

B) Holly Golightly

C) Judith Maxwell

D) Tiffany Barnes

3 / 10

From which movie is this quote: "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig."

A) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

B) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

C) They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

D) Easy Rider

4 / 10

The 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme was recorded by:

A) The Monkees

B) The Velvet Underground

C) Simon & Garfunkel

D) The Mamas & the Papas

5 / 10

This is a 1967 single released by:

A) The Buckinghams

B) The Standells

C) The American Breed

D) The Box Tops

6 / 10

My makeup is dry, and it clags on my chin. I'm drowning my sorrows in whisky and gin. These song lyrics appear on an album by which group?

A) The Beatles

B) The Kinks

C) Herman's Hermits

D) Procol Harum

7 / 10

How many U.S. presidents were in office during U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?

A) Four

B) Seven

C) Six

D) Five

8 / 10

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he broke the world record for the long jump by nearly 2 feet (55 cm). His name?

A) Dwight Phillips

B) Carl Lewis

C) Bob Beamon

D) Mike Powell

9 / 10

Bronco is an American Western that aired from 1958 through 1962. The leading role is played by:

A) Ward Bond

B) Jack Kelly

C) James Gardner

D) Ty Hardin

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

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.