1960s Trivia Quiz – 20 Questions

"""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)."""

The Rain, the Park & Other Things is a song by The Cowsills. It topped the charts in Canada and reached No. 2 in United States and New Zealand.

The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The role as 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, is played by Dustin Hoffman.

The song was originally written and composed by country singer Don Gibson. It was first released as B-side to Oh, Lonesome Me in 1958.

Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album of Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. It was released in 1967. The album had little success in United States, but reached #13 in UK and spent nearly a year and a half in the UK album charts.

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital.

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

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser won the 100 m freestyle event for the third time in a row. She was named the Australian of the Year the same year and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1965.

The Honeycombs started in November 1963 as an amateur band founded by Martin Murray. Its members were Murray, a hairdresser, his salon assistant Honey Lantree, her brother John and two friends. Originally they called themselves the Sheratons.

The quote is from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach.

John Leyton is an English actor and singer. As a singer, he is perhaps best known for Johnny Remember Me, which reached Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1961. His next single, Wild Wind, reached Number 2.

As an actor he appeared in films like The Great Escape, Guns at Batasi, Every Day's a Holiday, and Von Ryan's Express.

Chuck Berry was born into a middle-class African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri. His birth name was Charles Edward Anderson Berry

Doors were formed in 1965, United States, and disbanded in 1973. Members were Robby Kriege, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Pat Sullivan (1965), and Jim Morrison (1965-71).

Julie Andrews plays a role in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star! (1968), and Darling Lili (1970). She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance in all three movies. In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Dick Van Dyke plays against Sally Ann Howes.

Talk to the Animals is a song written by British composer Leslie Bricusse. It was featured in the film Doctor Dolittle (1967). In the film, the song was performed by Rex Harrison.

It has since then been recorded by artists such as Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Roger Moore.

Let the Heartaches Begin is a song recorded by British singer Long John Baldry. It was a number one hit in the UK, number 2 in Ireland and peaked at number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stella Stevens began her acting career in 1959 and starred in films like Girls! Girls! Girls! (with Elvis Presley) and The Nutty Professor (with Jerry Lewis).

In 1964, Lou Reed and John Cale brought in Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise to form a new quartet initially known as The Warlocks, and later the Velvet Underground.

Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age. Sartre refused to accept the prize.

Sartre was a key figure in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology.

The Nobel Prize in literature has not been awarded to Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, or Pierre Boulle.

Stella Stevens began her acting career in 1959 and starred in films like Girls! Girls! Girls! (with Elvis Presley) and The Nutty Professor (with Jerry Lewis).