The 1960s - Entertainment at its Most Colorful Quiz

Answer: In a shower

The famous shower scene from "Psycho" took seven days to shoot and used over seventy different camera perspectives before Hitchcock was satisfied that he had all the required raw material. In the end, he made fifty cuts in a span of just around three minutes, giving an average shot duration of just six seconds.

This frantic pace, along with the many close-up angles used, give this particular scene a cinematic look unlike any other.

Answer: Mister Ed

Created as a syndicated series and shot in black and white, "Mister Ed" ran for six seasons and 143 thirty-minute episodes. After its early success, it was picked up by CBS in October 1961. The title character is a horse capable of speech, played by Bamboo Harvester (1949-1970), a palomino gelding, and voiced by Allen Lane.

The quirky equine was however quite picky in who he would speak to - only his owner, an architect by the name of Wilbur Post (Alan Young) was ever considered worthy of hearing what Mister Ed had to say.

Answer: The Beatles

In 1961, The Beatles were regularly playing at the Cavern Club, a rock and roll club in Liverpool. There, their future manager Brian Epstein heard them and realized their potential. His assessment, however, was not shared by the Decca executives after the January 1, 1962 audition culminating in the rather wrong assessment "Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein" being made by a Decca executive.

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.

Answer: "What is Jeopardy?"

"Jeopardy!" is unique among all trivia game shows in that the role of challenge and reply are reversed. Where normally, candidates are asked questions and must provide the answers, here, the prompt is a statement or description and candidates must give their reply as a question.

The show consists of two rounds of playing categorized questions from a matrix, followed by one final question in which candidates must bet any or all of their winnings so far. Some matrix fields randomly contain a "daily double", also allowing the lucky player getting one to risk a part of their winnings and gain a major boost.

Initially, the values on the matrix were only 10 to 50 dollars on the first round and 20 to 100 on the second "Double Jeopardy" game.

Answer: Walt Disney World Resort

While plans for an East Coast equivalent to California's successful Disneyland Park can be traced back to as early as 1959, it took until 1965 for Walt Disney to find and secure a suitable site where he would be able to acquire a large area of land cheaply, providing him with ample room for a long-term development.

In 1965, he finally made the purchase (using several smaller companies in order to avoid appearing as a single large buyer who would likely have had to pay a much higher amount of money). Construction for the resort began in 1968, lasting three and a half years.

Answer: Oahu

Adapted from a chapter of the James Michener novel of the same name, "Hawaii" is an epic cinematic rendition of a missionary's adventures on early 19th century Hawaii. It deals with the arrival and settlement of the first Calvinist Americans in this then still almost untouched paradise which ultimately ends in tragedy as the native and guest cultures prove too different to coexist. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, the movie failed to win any of them but did win two Golden Globes (for Jocelyne LaGarde as best supporting actress and for Elmer Bernstein's orchestral score).

Some sources list "Hawaii" as the top grossing movie of 1966 and "The Bible: In the Beginning" as runner-up, others have the opposite order.

Answer: Super Bowl I

Officially billed as the "First World Championship Game AFL vs. NFL", this football game would later become known as "Super Bowl I". AFL champions Kansas City Chiefs faced off against NFL champions Green Bay Packers, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

It was the only Super Bowl game ever simultaneously broadcast by two rival networks due to the fact that CBS held the TV rights for the NFL and NBC those for the AFL. Halftime commercials were very affordable compared to today's prices - a 30-second spot could be had for a mere $42,000.

Answer: "Be-In"

The controversial nude scene is the finale of the first act of the musical "Hair", during which the hippie tribe attends a be-in, a late 1960s gathering of nonconformist young people during which all conventional rules of society were thrown out of the window in a quest for self-actualization and liberation from what young people perceived as an overly invasive authority. In "Hair", the be-in is shown as an orgiastic event while most real-life events of this sort were much tamer - besides some use of marijuana and LSD, the main activities were restricted to liberal speeches, socializing and dancing.

Note that in many sources, you'll find this scene billed as appearing in "Where Do I Go?" which is technically correct: The song played and sung in the brief nude scene is a reprise of the prior "Be-In", but since it's just a short segment, it's considered part of the "Where Do I Go?" sequence.

Answer: George Lazenby

The sixth movie in the "James Bond" series based on the novels by Ian Fleming was called "In Her Majesty's Secret Service" and features George Lazenby in his only appearance as agent 007. It marks the third confrontation of Bond with the evil genius Blofeld (masterfully played by Telly Savalas) and his plots to achieve world domination.