Any Way The Sixties Blow Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Beatles

In the sixties, music lovers were fan either of the Beatles or of the Rolling Stones. Anyone who liked the music of both bands, was frowned upon - to say the very least.
The Beatles don't really need an introduction, do they? Let's only mention their major studio albums: "Please, Please Me"; "With the Beatles"; "A Hard Day's Night"; "Beatles for Sale"; "Help"; "Rubber Soul"; "Revolver"; "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"; "Magical Mystery Tour"; "The Beatles"; "Yellow Sub Marine"; "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be".
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th, 1964 for the first time. The audience was raving.

Answer: The Misfits

Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jean Mortenson in 1926. She was raised under the family name Baker, her mother's name, for her supposed father had left the household.
In 1946 she started her acting career. Her first stunning performances were in "The Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve", both movies dating from 1950.
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) and "The Seven Year Itch" (1955, with the famous scene of the wind blowing high her skirt) confirmed her as the typical blonde bombshell.
"Some Like It Hot" (1959) stars Marilyn Monroe and two other 'bombshells': Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis posing as saxophone playing girls. Marilyn won a Golden Globe for this movie.
In 1961, the movie "The Misfits" with Marilyn, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift was completed. It would be her last movie. She was fired on the set of "Something's Got to Give", and the movie remained unfinished.
Marilyn died in August 1962.

Answer: France Gall

France Gall (real first name Isabelle) was born 1947. She had a few hits before entering the Eurovision Song Contest, but the Contest was her international breakthrough. The song was composed by Serge Gainsbourg, who also wrote the lyrics (with some double meanings, unfit for a family site like this one).
Giuglia Cinquetti won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 with "Non Ho L'Eta". Udo Jurgens won in 1966 with "Merci Cherie". Sandy Shaw won in 1967 with "Puppet on a String".

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.

Answer: Chubby Checker

Hank Ballard had a minor success with the 1959 song "The Twist", but only Chubby Checker's version started the hype.
Chubby Checker was born in 1941. He had two singles in 1959, but broke through when he recorded his version of Hank Ballard's song in 1960 - with the eponymous dance. Chubby then recorded some variations: the songs "Twistin' USA" and "Twist It Up" in the sixties, as well as "Let's Twist Again" in 1999. Chubby also starred in two movies on the same theme: "Twist Around the Clock" and "Don't Knock the Twist".
Paul Williams was the original singer of "The Hucklebuck", a 1949 song that also was covered by Chubby Checker.
Bill Haley and the Comets incited the crowds to "Rock Around the Clock".
Elvis Presley had a nice swinging of the hips, which would fit perfectly in the dance moves for the Twist. But no, he didn't record the song.

Answer: Ponderosa

"Bonanza" was a western series starring Lorne Greene, Michael Landon and Dan Blocker. These actors starred as the Cartwrights, a family living in the Wild West. Their home is the ranch "Ponderosa".
"Bonanza" started in 1959 and continued until 1974. Most seasons had a whopping thirty-odd episodes, and thus filled up more than half a year.
South Fork is the ranch of the Ewing family in the TV series "Dallas".
Colbyco is the firm headed by Alexis Colby in the TV series "Dynasty".
Forrester Creations is the fashion firm headed by the Forrester family in "The Bold and the Beautiful".

Answer: Tommy

The Who is a famous British rock band. Members sometimes come and go, and in 1969 the band consisted of the four best known of their musicians: Pete Townshend (guitars, keyboard, lyrics), John Entwistle (bass guitar, horn, lyrics), Keith Moon (drums and percussion) and lead singer Roger Daltrey. The rock opera "Tommy" features a young boy who becomes deaf, mute and blind after witnessing his father and his step-father fighting each other (with a fatal outcome). Tommy learns to play pinball machines (only using his intuition and his smell, according to the lyrics) and beats the national champion. Soon after Tommy miraculously recovers all his senses, he becomes a guru and preacher.

Answer: Ursula Andress

The official series of Bond movies (by the way, all produced by the Broccoli family) started with "Dr. No" in 1962. In this movie, James Bond (played by Sean Connery) investigates the vanishing of one of his colleagues in Jamaica. James meets Honey Rider, played by Ursula Andress. "Tell me more, tell me what she wore", to put it in Lee Pockriss' words. Well, it was an "itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini", but without the polka dots Lee mentioned. Besides, the colour is not yellow, but white.
Lotte Lenya played Rosa Krebbs in the Bond movie "From Russia with Love" (1963).
Honor Blackman starred in "Goldfinger" (1964) as Pussy Galore.
Akiko Wakabayashi was Aki, the Japanese Bond girl, in "You Only Live Twice" (1967).

Answer: Zager & Evans

Denny Zager and Rick Evans formed a band in the US in the second half of the sixties. They had only one major hit, "In the Year 2525", a warning for being overconfident in technological progress.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had several major hits in the sixties and seventies, including "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Water".
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were a famous couple in the seventies, but they didn't sing together in the sixties.
Sonny Bono and Cher had one big hit with "I've Got You, Babe" in 1965.

Answer: These movies were directed by an Italian

The term spaghetti western was at first used pejoratively for low-budget movies, all directed by Italians (Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci and others). Most of these movies were shot either in the Cinecitta studios near Rome, or in southern Spain. Other typical features are the scarcity of dialogues, some extremely violent scenes, and music scores by the Italian composer Ennio Morricone.
"A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) introduced Clint Eastwood as a lonesome gunfighter. Gian Maria Volonté and Marianne Koch complete the main cast.
In "For a Few Dollars More", Clint gets Lee Van Cleef as his antagonist. Further roles include Gian Maria Volonté and Mara Krupp.
"The Good, the Bad and The Ugly" (1966) starred Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef again, this time together with Eli Wallach. Rada Rassimov is the leading actress.
These three movies were directed by Sergio Leone, who also co-authored the script.
"Death Rides a Horse" (1966) was directed by Sergio Corbucci. Lee Van Cleef plays a revenging youngster. Other leading roles are for John Philip Law and Felicita Fanny.
"Once Upon A Time in the West" (1969) was a masterpiece directed by Sergio Leone. The leading actors are Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale.