A Slice In Time: 1960s History Quiz

Answer: Francis Gary Powers

Powers was returned to the US in a swap for a Soviet prisoner in 1962. He became a helicopter traffic reporter for Los Angeles television station KNBC and died when his craft crashed while returning from covering brush fires in 1977.

Answer: The Beatles played the first of almost 300 gigs there

Paul McCartney played his last concert of the 20th century at the Cavern Club on December 14, 1999. Other groups that got their start at the club include the Hollies, the Yardbirds and the Kinks.

Answer: Israel

Eichmann, who had been active deporting Jews to "the East" since 1940, was appointed by Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 to organize the deportation of Jews to extermination camps as part of "The Final Solution". He was captured by Mossad in Argentina.

Answer: Oz

"Oz" magazine was launched in 1963 by several members of the Sydney Push movement, a group with a rebellious attitude toward authority that contrasted sharply with the conservative values of the 1950s and 1960s. "Oz" articles were also of a serious sociopolitical content and much of the magazine's graphic design was done by well-known Aussie artist Martin Sharp. Women's rights activist and author Germaine Greer ("The Female Eunuch") was another member of Push.

Answer: Che Guevara

The image of "Che" has achieved an iconic status with his likeness conferring a hip "radical chic." He has been portrayed by Mandy Patinkin on Broadway and Antonio Banderas on the silver screen.

Answer: Mary Quant

Mary Quant, who was known as the "High Priestess of 1960s Fashion", was born in Kent, England in 1934. She was named an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1966 for her pioneering work in couture design. Quant also claims to have invented hot pants.

Answer: Communicants kneel at the altar to take communion instead of standing

It is just the opposite - communincants now stand rather than kneel. These changes didn't take place all at once; rather they came over a span of as many as 20 years after Vatican II.

Answer: He wore a black eye patch

Dayan participated in the Allied invasion of Vichy-held Lebanon and Syria in World War II. A bullet shattered the field glasses he was using and permanently injured his eye. Even after his 1981 death Dayan remains a controversial figure.

Answer: Prague Spring

This time in Czech history was memorialized in the 1984 best seller "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. The film version of the book starred Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin and Stellan Skarsgård.

Answer: My Lai Massacre

As many as 500 civilians, largely women and children, were slain by US troops on March 16, 1968. The result of this massacre was worldwide outrage and erosion of support for the war by the American public. Lieutenant William Calley was the only person convicted of murder.