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The Sixties: A Deeper Cut: Multiple Choice
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- 01Who scored the only touchdown for the Kansas City Chiefs in their Super Bowl I loss to the Green Bay Packers?
- 02The Op Art movement gained international acclaim after a 1965 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art titled what?
- 03Which Martinican psychiatrist and political philosopher published the influential anti-colonial work "The Wretched of the Earth" in 1961?
- 04The "Year of Africa" in 1960 saw 17 nations gain independence. Which was the most populous among them?
- 05Which 1963 Akira Kurosawa film is a police procedural thriller based on an Ed McBain novel?
- 06What specific type of rapidly rotating neutron star was first observed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish in 1967?
- 07The 1968 Tet Offensive was launched during the celebration of what specific Vietnamese holiday?
- 08What was the name of the radical anti-war organization, an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), that formed in 1969?
- 09Who won the Formula One World Championship in 1966, driving a car of his own manufacture?
- 10Which film by Federico Fellini won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival?
- 11What was the name of the unmanned NASA probe that executed the first controlled, soft landing on the Moon in 1966?
- 12The "Prague Spring" reforms of 1968 were led by which First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia?
- 13What was the official codename for the failed 1961 CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs?
- 14The first successful landing on another planet was achieved in 1966 by which Soviet probe on Venus?
- 15Who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, overseeing the escalation in Vietnam?
- 16What was the final song performed by The Beatles during their last public concert on the Apple Corps rooftop in 1969?
- 17Who was the first substantive Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), appointed in 1964?
- 18Who founded the influential design and furniture company Habitat on London's Fulham Road in 1964?
- 19The 1964 discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation was made using what specific type of large radio antenna?
- 20In 1969, which African nation changed its name to the People's Republic of the Congo, adopting a Marxist-Leninist state?