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1. What was the first major British television appearance for the Beatles in 1964?
2. What club in London's Soho district, was considered the "most important venue in the history of European pop music"?
3. Before his bad boy image took hold, Mick Jagger was a student at one of London's major colleges. Which?
4. Everyone knows about Carnaby Street, but what was the name of the Kensington store that first enabled us girls to buy European high fashion at affordable prices?
5. Who was the British designer who first marketed the mini skirt, eventually becoming the leading fashion force outside of Paris?
6. When and where was the World Premiere of "A Hard Day's Night"?
7. Originally designed by Alec Issigonis, what year did the speedy Cooper version of the Mini, first start whizzing round London?
8. On what famous street did the Beatles open their "Apple Boutique"?
9. Who was considered the "father of modernist hair styling and cut"?
10. Which flamboyant British painter grew in influence in the 1960s, with his first London show at the Kasmin Gallery in Bond Street, in 1963?
11. It took the BBC a while to realise that their listening audience had changed. Influenced by Pirate Radio Stations, when did the BBC finally launch Radio One.
12. What was the name of the classical music recording studio in London, that gained almost instant fame in the 1960s?
13. There were several major changes English law that reflected the freer societal attitudes. In what year were both abortion and homosexual acts between adult men legalized in England and Wales?
14. Who was involved in the major scandal that shook London society to its roots in the 60s?
15. In 1965, one of England's great statesmen was given a full state funeral. Name him.
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