1960s Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A driver in the late 1960s plays music using a bulky cartridge format that had become popular in cars. Which format is being used?
An 8-track tape
A compact cassette
A vinyl LP
A compact disc
2. A student finds a 1963 speech containing the words “I have a dream.” At which event was Martin Luther King Jr. delivering it?
The Selma to Montgomery march
The Freedom Rides
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The Poor People’s Campaign
3. A history report describes a tense 13-day confrontation over Soviet nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. Which event is it examining?
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The Berlin Blockade
The Prague Spring
The Cuban Missile Crisis
4. A late-1960s Jamaican song has a steady offbeat rhythm and developed from ska and rocksteady. Which genre best fits that description?
Calypso
Reggae
Highlife
Bossa nova
5. The familiar police warning about the right to remain silent followed which 1966 U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Miranda v. Arizona
Brown v. Board of Education
Gideon v. Wainwright
Tinker v. Des Moines
6. Which 1964 U.S. law prohibited segregation in public accommodations and barred employment discrimination on several grounds?
The Voting Rights Act
The Fair Housing Act
The Social Security Amendments
The Civil Rights Act
7. Television viewers in July 1969 heard the words “one small step for man” during which mission?
Apollo 8
Apollo 11
Gemini 4
Vostok 1
8. Which animated prime-time television series debuted in 1960 and followed a Stone Age family in the town of Bedrock?
Jonny Quest
The Jetsons
The Flintstones
Top Cat
9. Which British group drew a huge American television audience when it appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964?
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Kinks
The Beatles
10. Which country gained independence from Britain on October 1, 1960?
India
Ghana
Nigeria
Algeria
11. Built in 1961, which structure became the defining symbol of a divided Berlin during the Cold War?
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The Maginot Line
The Brandenburg Gate
12. A Space Race timeline notes that a Soviet cosmonaut became the first human in space in 1961. Who was he?
Alexei Leonov
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Yuri Gagarin
13. Which 1969 music festival was held on a dairy farm near Bethel, New York?
Woodstock
Monterey Pop Festival
Newport Folk Festival
Altamont Speedway Free Festival
14. Which of these events happened first?
The Woodstock festival
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
The Apollo 11 Moon landing
15. A photograph shows American demonstrators carrying signs opposing the draft and a conflict in Southeast Asia. Which war were they most likely protesting?
The Vietnam War
The Korean War
The Gulf War
The Soviet–Afghan War
16. Who wrote the influential 1962 environmental book Silent Spring?
Jane Jacobs
Rachel Carson
Betty Friedan
Margaret Mead