Answer: A Day in the Life
"I'd love to turn you on"--this is the lyric that would raise the eyebrows of the BBC watchdogs. John Lennon would state publicly that they weren't talking about drugs, that by "turn you on" they meant "turn you on to the truth" but, really, who were they kidding?! Either way, it's an extraordinary song, yet another masterpiece from the boys from Liverpool. Rolling Stone magazine would rank "A Day in the Life" as the 28th greatest song of all time. I'd rank it higher but nobody asked me.
From Quiz: 1967: The Year in Entertainment
Answer: The Dick Van Dyke Show
The show aired from 1961 till 1966 on CBS, winning 15 Emmy awards. The two main characters in the show where played by Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. In a way the show illustrated the life of its producer Carl Reiner, when he previously worked as a television writer.
From Quiz: Rewind the '60s
Answer: "I'd rather fight than switch."
Models and actors who appeared in Tareyton ads early in their careers included Martha Stewart and Lyle Waggoner. The brand faded in the late '70s and is no longer on the market
From Quiz: They Said It in the '60s
Answer: Diana Rigg
"The Avengers" was a British comic spy series in which John Steed ( a role by Patrick Macnee) investigates bizarre incidents. Steed always relied on a female assistant: Mrs. Catherine Gale (role by Honor Blackman), Mrs. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) or Tara King (role by Linda Thorson). Even in the seventies' sequel "The New Avengers" Steed relies on a female companion: Purdey, played by Joanna Lumley.
Diana Rigg was born in 1938. She made her debut with the TV movie "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1959. She played Emma Peel in 51 episodes of "The Avengers" in the seasons 1965-1968.
From Quiz: Any Way The Sixties Blow
Answer: Four
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is the correct title of this comedy in which four witnesses of a fatal car accident attempt to outrace and outsmart each other in an attempt to claim a treasure whose location the dying driver has disclosed to them. Of course in the end, after a significant amount of mayhem justifying the four repetitions of the title word, none of them is successful.
From Quiz: The 1960s - Entertainment at its Most Colorful
Answer: Bonanza
Hop Sing was the Chinese immigrant who was the cook for Cartwrights on "Bonanza." "Laugh In" had one year at the top of the ratings in 1969. "Gunsmoke" had a four-year run as the nation's #1 show from 1958 - 1961. "Bewitched" wasn't ever #1 in the Nielsen ratings but was tops in my childhood heart.
From Quiz: 1960s All American Entertainment
Answer: True Grit
Rooster, a drunken US Marshal, is out to capture murderer Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey). He is accompanied by Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), daughter of the murdered man, and Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell).
John Wayne, born Marion Morrison, had wanted Karen Carpenter to play the part of Mattie. Mia Farrow was offered the role, which she refused, later saying rejecting the part was the biggest mistake of her career.
"True Grit", released in 1969, collected a Best Actor Oscar for Wayne. The movie also received six other awards and a further five nominations.
From Quiz: That's Entertainment - Swinging 60's Style #4
Answer: Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger said, "What I tend to go for, and what interests me, is not the hero but the coward...not the success, but the failure." This 1969 movie "Midnight Cowboy" is a fine example of his philosophy. The movie starred Dustin Hoffman as Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing down on his luck hustler and Jon Voight as "cowboy" Joe Buck trying to make their way in the urban jungle of New York.
Hoffman put pebbles in his shoe while filming to create Ratso's shuffling limp.
Bob Dylan wrote "Lay Lady Lay" for the movie, but it was completed too late for inclusion.
"Midnight Cowboy" received Oscars for "Best Director" and "Best Picture".
From Quiz: That's Entertainment - Swinging 60's Style #3
Answer: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
"A World Without Love" topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1964 for Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller). Peter Asher was the elder brother of Paul McCartney's then girlfriend Jane Asher.
The duo went their separate ways in 1968. Peter Asher joined the Beatles Apple Records as a producer before moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s.
From Quiz: That's Entertainment - Swinging 60's Style Pt2
Answer: A lawyer defends a black man against a rape charge
In the movie, based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Peck plays lawyer Atticus Finch in 1930s Alabama. Amid much racial tension Finch defends an innocent young black man Tom Robinson, played by Brock Peters, charged with raping a white woman.
This powerful and dramatic much acclaimed film was superbly directed by Robert Mulligan.
From Quiz: That's Entertainment ! - Swinging 60's Style
