Fantastic Sixties Trivia Book: Everything You Should Have Remembered Or Need To Know About The 1960s

By Richard Hipgrave and Tony Hipgrave

The Fantastic Sixties Trivia Quiz Book is an e-book which will help you discover all you remember and all you’ve forgotten about the most mind-blowing decade of them all!

It covers important questions, such as:

• What was ‘history’s biggest happening’?
• Who named their child Moon Unit Two?
• Which 60s lizard died in a Paris bathtub in 1971?
• What was the Great Society?
• Who were the Great Society?
• What was the Hanoi Hilton?
• Where did you first hear 'Sergeant Pepper'?
• What was significant about white bicycles?
• Who played the siren on 'Highway 61 Revisited'?
• Who bought the world's biggest diamond?

If you want to study the social history of the 1960s, assess your own JQ (Junk Quotient), or just recapture the Spirit of the 1960s, this will provide you with endless hours of fun.

So get your stardust and golden heads together, love the ones you’re with, and get ready to take that first giant step of a walk right back to happiness....

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Hipgrave
• Release date: Sep 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301079315

Richard Hipgrave

Tony and Richard Hipgrave did not live in Swinging London in the 60s. They did, however, go there on the train once. They do not work in the media, and do not have a successful radio or TV series connected to this book. They believe in peace, love and understanding and, for decades, have lived as far apart from each other as is geographically possible.

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Art, Fashion & Photography

I Am A Camera

It’s A Happening

Needles And Pins

People Take Pictures Of Each Other

She Comes In Colours

I Am A Camera

Questions about fashion and fashionable people.

1. Who played the camera man in the film Blow up?

2. Which actress clicked for both David Bailey and Clint Eastwood?

3. Whose 1964 Spring Collection captured the mood and icons of the Space Age?

4. He is best known for his colourful slinky silks with swirling patterns. Marilyn Monroe is buried in a lime green dress designed by him. Who is he?

5. What sort of hat did Jackie Kennedy popularise?

6. Who was ‘The Shrimp’, and why did she cause a big stir in Melbourne?

7. Where was the shop Granny Takes a Trip located?

8. Who cut Mia Farrow’s hair for the film Rosemary’s Baby? Who inspired his famous cut?

9. The model Vera Gottliebe Anna, Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort was known for her height and a memorable appearance in Blow Up.

What was her easier-to-pronounce professional name?

10. Which model, after witnessing a seal hunt, became a campaigner against the fur trade and animal cruelty?

Answers

I Am A Camera

1. David Hemmings.

2. Catherine Deneuve, who was married to Bailey from 1965 to 1972, managed to fit in a fling with Clint around 1966.

3. André Courrèges’ collection featured new materials (PVC, plastic and metal) and design themes inspired by the clothing and equipment used by astronauts - e.g. helmets, goggles and flat boots.

4. Emilio Pucci.

5. The pillbox hat.

6. Jean Shrimpton caused a big stir in Australia - and got huge worldwide publicity - when she wore a mini skirt to the Melbourne Cup.

7. In London, at 488 King’s Road. The shop featured in Time magazine’s 1966 article, ‘LONDON the Swinging City’.

8. Vidal Sassoon pioneered short, low-maintenance hairstyles for women. He always credited Mary Quant - a client - for inspiring the short cut.

9. Veruschka.

10. Celia Hammond.

It’s A Happening

1. In 1962, Time, Life and Newsweek all featured a new art form on their covers. What was it?

2. Which sculptor became famous for wrapping objects ranging from chairs to buildings?

3. Who said (of one of his films), The camerawork is lousy, the lighting’s lousy, the sound is lousy, but the people are beautiful.?

4. Whose happenings included Fluids, Pose, and Calling?

5. In 1968, which theatre group was responsible for bringing Hair to Broadway?

Answers

It’s A Happening

1. Pop Art.

2. Christo.

3. Andy Warhol (of his film Camp).

4. Allan Kaprow.

Fluids comprised an enclosure of ice blocks which were left to melt.

In Pose Polaroid snapshots were attached to an object at the location of the shots.

Calling was a staged event performed in 1965 in which performers were wrapped in aluminium foil and left as motionless objects in a locked car.

Later, they were unwrapped from foil and then bound in cloth or tied to a laundry bag and propped up against the information booth at Grand Central Station. Other performers, who had been through the same process, joined them.

Calling out to each other, they worked their way free and then left the station.

5. Joseph Papp’s People’s Theatre.

Needles And Pins

1. What did Jerry Rubin wear for his 1966 appearance before the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities?

2. Who was Mary Quant’s husband and business partner? What was their boutique called?

3. What did Anello & Davide make?

4. Who was ‘Biba’ after whom the boutique was named?

5. How did Ascot attempt to get with the times in 1968?

6. Who ran ‘I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet’ boutique?

7. Which pop star had a much-publicised collection of Nazi memorabilia?

8. To whom was Jack Bruce’s Songs for a Tailor dedicated?

9. In 1964, Levi Strauss & Co. began to produce iron-free trousers that were marketed as wearable straight out of the dryer. What was the brand name?

10. Who or what was ‘The Fool’?

Answers

Needles And Pins

1. A freak’s version of the uniform of a soldier in the American War of Independence.

2. Alexander Plunkett-Greene. ‘Bazaar’.

3. Chelsea boots. ‘Beatle boots’ came about when John and Paul commissioned four pairs of Anello & Davide boots with Cuban heels.

4. Barbara Hulanicki.

5. Lounge suits were permitted in the Royal Enclosure for the first time.

So few men took up the opportunity that, in 1969, the ‘morning dress only’ rule was re-introduced.

6. John Paul.

7. Chris Farlowe of the Thunderbirds (Handbags and Glad Rags) was very much out of time with this unfashionable hobby.

8. Jeanne Franklin (Genie the Tailor) who had designed clothes for several rock stars.

In May 1969, she was killed in a car crash that also claimed the life of Martin Lamble, Fairport Convention’s drummer.

9. Sta-Prest. The trousers were especially popular among British mods of the mid 1960s.

10. ‘The Fool’ comprised four clothes designers from Amsterdam - Simon, Maryke, Josje and Barry - who made clothes for the Apple boutique.

People Take Pictures Of Each Other

1. What were Rick Griffin, Mouse and Kelley famous for?

2. With which art form do you associate Annie Leibovitz and Henry Diltz?

3. Whose paintings include Whaam! and Yellow and Red Brushstrokes?

4. To whom was Marianne Faithfull married? What was his art gallery called?

5. Which photographer is remembered for a series of ‘shocking’ photographs of midgets, freaks, giants and transvestites?

6. Which cartoonist created Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat and Schuman the Human?

7. Who said The medium is the message.?

8. Who had a hand in designing both the Sergeant Pepper and Their Satanic Majesties Request album covers?

9. Who created the sculpture Death of a Hippie?

10. Which artist painted Miss Amerika?

Answers

People Take Pictures Of Each Other

1. Psychedelic posters and album covers.

2. Photography - both for magazines and album covers.

3. Roy Lichtenstein.

4. John Dunbar. ‘Indica’.

5. Diane Arbus.

6. Robert Crumb.

7. Marshall McLuhan. In Understanding Media, 1964.

8. Michael Cooper.

9. Paul Thek.

10.Wolf Vostell.

She Comes In Colours

1. Which designer’s clothes did Audrey Hepburn wear in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

2. Which designer is credited with the costumes for Barbarella?

3. What makes of scooter would a mod have ridden?

4. By what name did Lesley Hornby from Neasden become better known?

5. From which country did Marimekko prints come, and who helped to popularise them?

6. Which US novelist threw a famous masked ‘Black and White’ Ball to celebrate the success of one of his books?

7. Who married fashion designer Jeff Banks in 1967?

8. Which fashion item is Rudi Gernreich best remembered for?

9. Who edited American Vogue for most of the 1960s?

10.Whose ready-to-wear Rive Gauche label was founded in 1967?

Answers

She Comes In Colours

1. Hubert de Givenchy.

2. Paco Rabane.

3. A Vespa or Lambretta.

4. The Daily Express’s ‘Face of 66’ is better known as Twiggy.

5. The Marimekko Corporation was based in Finland.

Its prints were popularised by Jackie Kennedy, who wore Marimekko dresses throughout the 1960 US Presidential campaign.

6. In November 1966, Truman Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, threw a ball for 500 guests to celebrate the success of his epic non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.

7. Sandie Shaw.

8. He designed a topless swimsuit, a ‘monokini’.

Banned in the US, it attracted predictable publicity, most of it based on the negative reactions of politicians and church leaders.

9. Diana Vreeland.

10.Yves St. Laurent.

The Bag of Trivia

All Or Nothing

Are You Sure?

Baby You Can Drive My Car

Connections

Cool Clear Water

Get Together

Halfway To Paradise

I’ll Remember April

Let’s Talk About Girls

Love Me, I’m A Liberal

Money

More Money

Nice’n’Easy

On The Road Again

Take Five

Where Are You Now?

Who Had…?

You Don’t Know

All Or Nothing

Explain the following acronyms:

1. A&R

2. DMZ

3. DRV

4. FWA

5. IFIF

6. LEMAR

7. LSD

8. MRBM

9. RSG

10.SCUM

11.STST

12.The TAMI Show

13.UDI

14.UNCLE

15.VSC

Answers

All Or Nothing

1. Artists & Repertoire.

A record company man whose functions included signing up new acts and selecting material for artists to perform.

2. De-Militarized Zone. Used to describe the neutral buffer zone in Vietnam.

3. Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.

4. Free Wales Army.

5. International Foundation for Internal Freedom.

A body set up by Timothy Leary and his associates for the administration of drug research projects.

6. LEgalize MARijuana.

7. LySergic acid Diethylamide.

8. Medium Range Ballistic Missiles.

9. The Regional Seats of Government.

In 1963, an organisation called ‘Spies for Peace’ published a list of these underground headquarters designed to be used in a nuclear war.

10.The Society for Cutting Up Men. (Founded by radical feminist Valerie Solanas).

11.Stop The Seventy Tour (by the South African cricket team).

12.The Teen Age Music International Show.

13.In 1965, Rhodesia proclaimed a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

14.United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

15.Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.

Are You Sure?

1. What was a Bradshaw?

2. Who put the ‘e’ in Concorde?

3. What came to the end of its line in 1963?

4. What went down when the sun came up on September 15, 1964?

5. What did a small number of TV viewers notice to be unusual about the colour of the grass at Headingley for the fourth Test between England and Australia in 1968?

6. To whom did the racehorse ‘Drake’s Drum’ belong?

7. What did the ‘Spirit of America’ and ‘Sonic 1’ have in common?

8. What champion animals were ‘Garry’, ‘Craig’, ‘Winston Cap’ and ‘Bosworth Coon’?

9. What was the link between Aust and Beachley?

10.Who won the first University Challenge?

Answers

Are You Sure?

1. A national railway guide published by Henry Blacklock & Co Ltd. It ceased publication in May 1961.

2. After an impasse had been reached over the spelling of the supersonic airliner project, Tony Benn took a ministerial decision to adopt the French spelling - terminating in ‘e’ - as a gesture of goodwill.

3. The What’s My Line? panel game.

4. The Daily Herald was replaced by The Sun.

5. It was green - not grey.

This was the first test match to be played in England to be televised live in colour.

6. Paul McCartney’s father.

7. They were jet-powered cars in which Craig Breedlove established land speed records - 526 mph and 600 mph.

8. They were all winning dogs in the ‘James Reid’ sheepdog championships.

9. The Severn Bridge, which links the two towns, was officially opened on September 8, 1965.

10.The first winners were Leicester University. The competition started in 1964.

Baby You Can Drive My Car

1. Why was 1961 a testing time for UK motorists?

2. When did the first Honda car become available in the UK? What model was it?

3. Who or what was the link between Martigny and Aosta?

4. What went from 2 ½ litres in 1960 to 1 ½ litres in 1961 and to 3 litres in 1966?

5. In what way was the NSU RO80 novel?

Answers

Baby You Can Drive My Car

1. A compulsory Ministry of Transport test for roadworthiness for vehicles more than 10 years old was introduced on February 15, 1961.

2. The first Honda (a 600cc sports car) was launched in the UK market in 1966.

3. The link is the Great St. Bernard tunnel, which was opened on March 19, 1964.

4. The engine size for Formula One racing cars.

5. It was the first production car to use the Wankel rotary engine.

Connections

Who or what was the link between:

1. Barney, Betty and Bam Bam?

2. The song Come Outside and the film Myra Breckinridge?

3. X, 3X and 15X?

4. Jackie Kennedy, Roy Orbison, Peter Fonda and Marcello Mastroianni? (Clue: Fashion accessory).

5. Shillelagh, Honest John and Little John? (Clue: Point Me To The Sky).

6. The instrumentals The Cruel Sea and Hawaii Five-O?

7. Congo (the painting chimpanzee) and the Director of Institute of Contemporary Arts?

8. Cliff Richard and the Dave Clark Five Fan Club?

9. Albert, Larry and Crazy Joe Gallo?

10.The zeal, silfern, kauri, coaster, royal and rex?

Answers

Connections

1. Barney, Betty and Bam Bam appeared as the Rubble family in The Flintstones.

2. Mike Sarne sang Come Outside. He also directed Myra Breckinridge.

3. Together with Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson were convicted of the murder of Malcolm X, who died after being gunned down in a Manhattan Ballroom on February 21, 1965.

4. They were all influential wearers of sunglasses.

5. They were all missiles employed by the US Department of Defense.

6. Both were hits for the Ventures.

7. In 1966, Dr. Desmond Morris of the London Zoo (Congo’s tutor), was appointed Director and Chief Executive of the ICA.

8. Cliff’s sisters (Jackie and Joan) were organisers of the Dave Clark Five Fan Club.

9. They were brothers. Albert, Larry and Crazy Joe Gallo were members of the New York Mafia.

Joe was shot in 1972. Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy wrote the song Joey about it all, which features on Desire (1976).

10.These were all names put forward for consideration as the basic monetary unit to be used in New Zealand after decimalisation.

Like its neighbour, Australia, New Zealand finally opted for the dollar.

Cool Clear Water

1. Why was an Atlantic sea egg in the news in June 1965?

2. What nationality was the crew of the ‘Torrey Canyon’ - the 120,000 ton oil tanker shipwrecked off the Cornish coast in March 1967?

3. In 1967, which nautical achievement merited a ‘full lift’ of Tower Bridge?

4. What happened to the US Navy ship, ‘Pueblo’ in 1968?

5. By what name was Mike Pasternak better known?

Answers

Cool Clear Water

1. John Riding's boat, ‘Sjo Ag’ (Sea Egg), which was only 12 feet long, became the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic.

The crossing, which took 67 days, was completed on June 30, 1965.

2. Italian.

The ship was owned by the Union Oil Company of California, registered in Monrovia and flew the Liberian flag.

3. Sir Francis Chichester's round-the-world trip in ‘Gipsy Moth IV’.

He passed the bridge en route to Tower Pier from Greenwich, where he had been knighted by the Queen.

4. The Pueblo, which was an electronic intelligence-gathering ship, was captured by the North Koreans.

The crew were held for 11 months.

The ship, which is still held in North Korea, continues to be officially part of the US Navy’s fleet.

5. Emperor Rosko (the disc jockey).

He joined the pirate radio station Radio Caroline in 1964, moving on to Radio 1 in 1967 after stints with Radio Monte Carlo and Radio Luxembourg.

Get Together

Can you guess the connections between:

1. The managing director of Mobile Exhibitions Ltd. and Russian Oleg Penkovsky?

2. Children Serafina and Marlon?

3. Buzzer pressers Irene Thomas, Ian Gillies and Lieutenant-Commander Julian Loring?

4. Dedicated followers of fashion John Edrich, Sir Harold Evans, Patrick McGoohan and Herman Noone?

5. Leslie Thomas, David Bowie, Ray Davies and Ned Sherrin? (Clue: A film).

6. John Arthur Edgecombe and Aloysius Lincoln ‘Lucky’ Gordon?

Answers

Get Together

1. The managing director of Mobile Exhibitions was Greville Wynne, who appeared before a Soviet court in 1963 accused of spying. Penkovsky was accused of passing ‘espionage material’ to him.

Wynne was found guilty and sentenced to eight years’ detention. Penkovsky, who was also found guilty, was shot.

2. Serafina is the daughter of Charlie and Shirley Watts. Marlon is the son of Keith Richard and Anita Pallenberg.

3. They were all winners of radio’s Brain of Britain quiz. (In 1961, 1964 and 1967 respectively).

4. They were in the ‘Ten Well-Dressed Men’ list of 1965.

5. Leslie Thomas wrote the book The Virgin Soldiers. Ned Sherrin produced the film - which featured a millisecond glimpse of David Bowie - and Ray Davies wrote the theme.

6. In 1963, they appeared in court in connection with separate attacks on Christine Keeler.

Edgecombe was accused of shooting at her with intent to murder her or cause grievous bodily harm, and Gordon appeared on charges of wounding and intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Giving evidence, Gordon alleged that the police had questioned him about Dr. Stephen Ward procuring young girls for high society, and that Christine Keeler had asked him to find a coloured girl for her brother, Stephen Ward.

On July 30, 1963, his sentence was quashed and he was freed, the Court of Appeal finding that he did not attack Keeler, and that evidence against him had been fabricated.

Christine Keeler was subsequently sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for perjury.

Halfway To Paradise

1. Where did Ari and Jackie marry?

2. Rock Stars’ houses. Who lived at: (a) Stargroves (near Newbury) (b) Graceland (c) Roehampton (d) Redlands - near West Wittering (e) Cotchford Farm in Sussex - once owned by AA Milne (f) A house in which George Frederick Handel once lived?

3. Who else lived at Brookfield, besides the Archers?

Answers

Halfway To Paradise

1. On Skorpios, an island belonging to Ari.

2. (a) Mick Jagger (b) Elvis (c) The Moody Blues. A News of the World article in February 1967 featured the ‘Roehampton Raves’- shock, horror, drugs, etc. Drug squad activity was stepped up after the publication of this article. (d) Keith Richard. The location of the famous 1967 bust. (e) Brian Jones. A house known for its swimming pool and vanishing guests. (f) Jimi Hendrix.

3. Peter Sellers’ country house at Elstead in Surrey was called Brookfield.

He was living there at the time of his marriage to Britt Ekland in February 1964. He later founded a film company with John Bryan which he called Brookfield Productions.

He sold Brookfield to Ringo Starr while they were working on The Magic Christian.

I’ll Remember April

1. What did David Beresford Pratt, a South African farmer, do on April 9, 1960?

2. Who were the next British group to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show after The Beatles?

3. Who won the first Greater London Council election in April 1964?

4. Who did Edward Heath sack from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968 after making a speech that was considered by many people to be racist?

5.