Trivia Quiz on 1960s Culture

1. Who was shot only hours after Annie Leibovitz took a nude photo of him for Rolling Stone

A) John lennon

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Ronald Reagan

D) Malcolm X

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2. At the request of EMI who was painted out Sarge Peppers cover

A) Albert Einstein

B) Mahatma Gandhi

C) Marilyn Monroe

D) Elvis Presley

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3. Alan Ginsberg is credited with inventing what 60s phrase

A) Make Love Not War

B) Flower Power

C) Turn on, tune in, drop out

D) Peace and Love

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4. Who 'imagined' a better world

A) Albert Einstein

B) John lennon

C) Mahatma Gandhi

D) Martin Luther King Jr.

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5. What rock music term was coined by william burroughs in his book "the soft machine"

A) psychedelic rock

B) Heavy metal

C) hard rock

D) glam rock

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6. Who Wrote The Autobiography A Cellarful Of Noise

A) Paul McCartney

B) Brian Epstein

C) John Lennon

D) Ringo Starr

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7. Who admitted in a radio interview during The Noughties that she had smoked cannabis in the 1960s?

A) Diana Ross

B) Petula Clark

C) Cilla Black

D) Marianne Faithfull

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8. This Was A Highly Successful Film In 1961, A Flop Broadway Musical In 1966, And A Top Ten UK Hit In 1996, What Is It?

A) Cleopatra

B) Breakfast At Tiffany's

C) The Sound of Music

D) My Fair Lady

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9. Who sang Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy for his 45th

A) Ella Fitzgerald

B) Barbra Streisand

C) Jacqueline Kennedy

D) Marilyn Monroe

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10. Who caused outrage with the following quote 'We are more popular than Jesus now'' I don't know which will go first Rock n Roll or Christianity''

A) Elvis Presley

B) Bob Dylan

C) John Lennon

D) Mick Jagger

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11. 10 Matthew Street, Liverpool is the address of which famous venue?

A) The Beatles Story

B) Royal Court Theatre

C) The Cavern

D) Liverpool Echo Arena

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12. Who 'imagined' a better world?

A) Bob Dylan

B) John Lennon

C) Martin Luther King Jr.

D) Nelson Mandela

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