Sixties Quiz – Random General Knowledge – 10 Questions

0 votes, 0 avg

1

Ultimate Sixties - Random General Knowledge Quiz

1 / 10

In 1969, Desmond Dekker & The Aces had a major hit with:

A) People Get Ready

B) This Woman

C) Israelites

D) I Can See Clearly Now

2 / 10

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

A) James Gardner

B) Jack Kelly

C) Ty Hardin

D) Ward Bond

3 / 10

Who plays the role of Alfie Elkins in the 1966 movie Alfie?

A) Cary Grant

B) Tommy Steele

C) Peter O'Toole

D) Michael Caine

4 / 10

In 1969, Rod Stewart followed Ron Wood and became a member of this band:

A) The Who

B) Manfred Mann

C) The Hollies

D) The Faces

5 / 10

The following films were all nominated for Best Picture at the 35th Academy Awards (1963). Which film won the Award?

A) The Longest Day

B) Lawrence of Arabia

C) To Kill a Mockingbird

D) Mutiny on the Bounty

6 / 10

Slaughterhouse-Five is an American classic antiwar book written by:

A) Joseph Heller

B) Kurt Vonnegut

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Anthony Burgess

7 / 10

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

A) Great Britain

B) United States

C) Australia

D) South Africa

8 / 10

The United States Peace Corps was established by which President?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Jimmy Carter

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Lyndon B. Johnson

9 / 10

Gamal Abdel Nasser was President of which country?

A) Morocco

B) Turkey

C) Egypt

D) France

10 / 10

What hit by Elvis Presley starts with the line: We're caught in a trap?

A) Suspicious Minds

B) Kentucky Rain

C) In the Ghetto

D) If I Can Dream

Your score is

The average score is 80%

LinkedIn Facebook

Restart quiz

Thank you for your input!

Send feedback

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“?

Ultimate Sixties

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