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The Sixties: A Deeper Cut: Multiple Choice
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- 01Tanzania's post-colonial development in the 1960s was guided by President Julius Nyerere's policy of collectivized agriculture, known by what name?
- 02In 1967, the Igbo people of Nigeria seceded to form which short-lived, unrecognized state, leading to a major civil war?
- 03The construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt during the 1960s created what massive reservoir?
- 04Which civil rights leader, as chairman of the SNCC, popularized the phrase "Black Power" in 1966?
- 05Who became the first woman to fly in space aboard the Vostok 6 mission in 1963?
- 06Which 1966 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon follows the character Oedipa Maas as she explores a centuries-old conspiracy?
- 07In 1966, the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom and became the Republic of Botswana, establishing what new capital city?
- 08Noam Chomsky used which nonsensical but grammatically correct sentence in 1957 to illustrate a key concept in linguistics, which gained wide currency in the 1960s?
- 09The 1967 treaty that forms the basis of international space law, banning weapons of mass destruction from orbit, is known by what name?
- 10In 1964, Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig independently proposed the existence of what elementary particle, a fundamental constituent of matter?
- 11The first beta blocker, a class of drugs used to manage cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension, was synthesized in 1964 and named what?
- 12Who became the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car of his own construction, doing so in 1966?
- 13Which Michelangelo Antonioni film, a mystery thriller set in Swinging London, won the Grand Prix at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival?
- 14What was the specific name of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module that landed on the Moon in 1969?
- 15Whose 1961 cookbook, 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking', is credited with introducing French cuisine to the American mainstream?
- 16In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held a crucial summit to de-escalate Cold War tensions in what New Jersey town?
- 17Which 1964 film by director Hiroshi Teshigahara, based on a novel by Kōbō Abe, is a key work of the Japanese New Wave?
- 18Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, launched in 1966, was primarily driven by a document compiling his statements known as what?
- 19The original Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen in London just before the 1966 FIFA World Cup, only to be found by a dog with what name?
- 20The iconic banana cover of a 1967 debut rock album was designed by Andy Warhol for which band?