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?