1960s Trivia Quiz – 20 Questions

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is the 3rd album by Small Faces. It peaked at number one on the UK Album Charts in 1969. The title and album design was a parody of Ogden's Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco produced in Liverpool by Thomas Ogden.

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.

Nashville Skyline is the ninth studio album by Bob Dylan, released on April 9, 1969.

Sweet Nothin's is a 1959 song by Brenda Lee. It is written by Ronnie Self and released on the Decca label in United States. It peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also charted on the Official Singles Chart in UK, peaking at number 4 again.

Piece of My Heart was originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967, but became a hit when Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin on lead vocals) covered the song in 1968.

Julie Andrews was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.

Drowning Girl (also known as Secret Hearts or I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink) is a 1963 painting by Roy Lichtenstein.

The Last Time (1965) was the first Jagger/Richards composition to reach number 1 on the UK singles charts. It peaked at number 9 in the US.

I Wanna Be Your Man is a Lennon-McCartney composition, Little Red Rooster is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon, and 19th Nervous Breakdown never topped the charts in U.K. (it peaked at No. 2.

The Woodstock Festival was held in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969.

Elvis Presley's hit Suspicious Minds starts:

We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Suspicious Minds is written Mark James, who also recorded the song. Elvis made it a number one hit in 1969, and one of the most notable hits of his career.

Bonanza ran from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes. Pernell Roberts plays the role as Adam Cartwright, Lorne Greene the role as Ben Cartwright, Dan Blocker the role as Hoss Cartwright, and Michael Landon plays the role as Joseph Little Joe Cartwright.

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill. The leading characters are played by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy) and Robert Redford (Sundance Kid). The film won four Academy Awards in 1970. William Goldman won the Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Burt Bacharach and Hal David won an Award for the song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.

RCA Victor Records is the first record company to release pop singles in mono and stereo simultaneously. Elvis Presley's Stuck on You becomes RCA's first mono/stereo release in March 1960.

Scottish pop singer Lulu had a #7 UK hit with the song in 1964 (attributed to Lulu and the Luvvers). She also reached the charts in 1986 with a re-recorded version.

All of these songs are from the album Revolver (1966) and officially written and composed by Lennon-McCartney except Taxman, which is written and composed by George Harrison.

Moon River is composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It got an Oscar for Best Original Song at the 34th Academy Awards in 1962. The song is featured in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's and was performed by Audrey Hepburn in the film. It also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

It was a hit single for Jerry Butler in late 1961, reaching number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. A recording by Mancini himself reached the same spot. In UK, South African singer Danny Williams reached number one with his version of the song. The best remembered version of the song, however, is perhaps the one recorded by Andy Williams.

Charles de Gaulle was the dominant military and political leader of France for much of the period from 1940 to 1969. He held the office as President between 8 January 1959 and 28 April 1969.

At the beginning of the song John shouts: I Dig a Pygmy, by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids... Phase One, in which Doris gets her oats!.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963.

Nanker Phelge (or Nanker/Phelge) was a pseudonym for the collaboration of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and sometimes pianist Ian Stewart (as credited in the ASCAP database). When songs were credited to Nanker Phelge, Rolling Stones would share writing credit and royalties.