1960s Trivia Quiz – 20 Questions

Mario Puzo was an Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (1969). The Godfather was later adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola.

Runaway is a song made famous by Del Shannon in 1961. It topped the charts in Australia, United Kingdom, United States, and many other countries.

West Side Story is a musical inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The film premiered 1961.

Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics

The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the 5th album by the Byrds. It was released in January 1968. The album reached number 47 on the Billboard Top Album chart and number 12 on the UK Album Chart.

The song All Along The Watchtower starts:
There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief,
There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Paul Jones had several Top 10 hits with Manfred Mann before going solo in July 1966. He released I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy in 1967, which peaked at no. 5 in United Kingdom.

The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. German Democratic Republic started constructing the wall starting on 13 August 1961.

The Shadow of Your Smile is composed by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster. The song is featured in the 1965 film The Sandpiper. It later became a minor hit for Tony Bennett. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards in 1964. It also won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

Artists that recorded the song include Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Andy Williams, Percy Faith, Marvin Gaye, Perry Como, Nancy Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Frank Sinatra.

The Swedish singer Lill Lindfors made a Swedish version titled Din skugga stannar kvar.

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He was born in Salinas, California, United States. He was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.

West Side Story is a 1961 musical drama directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name. The story is inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

The film stars Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, and Natalie Wood. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 10, including Best Picture.

Some of the songs from the film include Somewhere, Maria, and America. None for nominated for an Award.

The song Be My Baby starts:
The night we met I knew I needed you so
And if I had the chance I'd never let you go
So won't you say you love me,
I'll make you so proud of me.

Telly Savalas plays the role as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Donald Pleasence had previously played the role in You Only Live Twice

Harold Holt was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia. He was Prime Minister for only 22 months before he disappeared in December 1967 while swimming, and was presumed drowned.

It Takes Two is a hit single recorded in late 1965 by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston for Motown's Tamla label. The single peaked at no. 14 on the Billboard Pop charts and no. 4 on Billboard's Soul Singles chart in January 1967. The song was also Marvin Gaye's first real hit in U.K.

Stand by Me was originally performed by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King. It was released on the Atco label in 1961 and reached no 1 on Billboard Hot 100.

The song was later featured in the 1986 film Stand by Me. It hit the charts again in 1987, reaching number one in several countries, including UK.

The song is written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller,

Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement.

Her name is Lesley Lawson (Hornby) or Twiggy. She is best remembered as one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon of the 1960s.

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham.

"""If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the 1966 debut album by The Mamas & the Papas (spelled """"The Mama's and the Papa's"""" on the cover)."""