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The 1960s: A Deeper Look: Multiple Choice
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- 01Which 1966 Thomas Pynchon novel features a character named Oedipa Maas entangled in a centuries-old postal conspiracy?
- 02Which Jean-Luc Godard film from 1960 is considered a landmark of the French New Wave for its pioneering use of jump cuts?
- 03The 1967 Six-Day War began with a surprise Israeli airstrike against Egyptian airfields. What was its operational codename?
- 04Construction of what dam on the Nile River, which created Lake Nasser, was largely completed in the 1960s with Soviet funding?
- 05The master plan for Brazil's new capital city of Brasília, inaugurated in 1960, was designed by which urban planner?
- 06On what date in 1962 was President Kennedy first shown reconnaissance photos of Soviet missile installations in Cuba, officially initiating the crisis?
- 07Besides Mao Zedong, which member of the 'Gang of Four' was the deputy leader of the Cultural Revolution Group, established in 1966?
- 08Which film by Federico Fellini, depicting a journalist's search for love and happiness in Rome, won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival?
- 09The first radio pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Antony Hewish and which graduate student, who was initially overlooked for the Nobel Prize?
- 10At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Bob Beamon shattered the long jump world record by what astonishing margin?
- 11In the 1966 World Cup final, which player scored West Germany's last-minute equalizer to force extra time against England?
- 12The automated pineapple peeling and coring machine, widely adopted by Dole in the 1960s, was originally invented in 1911 by whom?
- 13The existence of quarks was independently proposed in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann and which other physicist?
- 14What was the name of the first active direct-relay communications satellite, which broadcast the first transatlantic television signal in 1962?
- 15Stephanie Kwolek, a chemist at DuPont, invented which high-strength synthetic fiber in 1965?
- 16Which 1964 experimental film by Andy Warhol consists of a static, six-and-a-half-hour shot of the Empire State Building at dusk?
- 17The term 'software', which gained widespread use in the 1960s, is credited to have been first used in print in a 1958 article by which statistician?
- 18Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963 aboard which specific Soviet spacecraft?
- 19Which modern-day country, formerly the Bechuanaland Protectorate, gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1966?
- 20Who was the chief organizer and logistical planner of the 1963 March on Washington, working largely behind the scenes?