60's Movies
What was the highest-grossing film of the 1960s?
Answer: The Sound of Music (1965)
What animated series, featuring a modern Stone Age family, was a staple of 1960s television?
Answer: The Flintstones
Question: Which British rock band released their iconic album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in 1967?
Answer: The Beatles
What fashion trend was popularized by the counterculture movement and featured colorful, psychedelic patterns?
Answer: Tie-dye clothing
What was the overarching conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1960s?
Answer: The Cold War.
Which film, released in 1961, starred Audrey Hepburn as the iconic character Holly Golightly?
Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Which TV show features a group of eccentric characters living on an island after being shipwrecked?
Answer: Gilligan’s Island
Which iconic American rock ‘n’ roll star returned to civilian life in 1960 after serving two years in the U.S. Army?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Which classic board game, first published in 1960, allows players to experience different life stages, carrying out life’s little adventures by placing pink and blue peg people in cars while traveling a 3-D game board on the way to “retirement”?
Answer: The Game of Life
Who were the four presidents of the United States during the 1960s?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
In which film does Julie Andrews play the magical nanny who brings joy to the lives of the Banks family?
Answer: Mary Poppins
Which animated TV show features a space-age family living in the futuristic world of Orbit City?
Answer: The Jetsons
Who scored Motown Record Corporation’s first US No. 1 pop hit with the song “Please Mr. Postman” in 1961?
Answer: The Marvelettes
What was the name of the music festival that became a symbol of the counterculture movement in 1969?
Answer: Woodstock.
What was the name of the mission that saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon in 1969?
Answer: Apollo 11.
Who played the iconic role of Atticus Finch in the film adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Answer: Gregory Peck
What is the name of the fictional town where The Andy Griffith Show takes place?
Answer: Mayberry, North Carolina
Who was the lead singer of The Doors, known for his poetic lyrics and charismatic stage presence?
Answer: Jim Morrison
What type of dance became a sensation in the 1960s, featuring energetic movements and often performed to upbeat music?
Answer: The twist.
Which major public figure in the USA was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963?
Answer: President John F. Kennedy.
Who directed the film “Psycho,” released in 1960, known for its iconic shower scene?
Which TV show features a group of meddling kids and their talking Great Dane solving mysteries?
Answer: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Who released the single “Mrs. Robinson” in 1968, which was featured in the film “The Graduate”?
Answer: Simon and Garfunkel
What accessory, associated with the space age aesthetic, became a popular decoration in homes and dorm rooms during the 1960s?
Answer: Lava lamps.
What event in 1963 prompted the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater?
Answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis.