What Else Happened In 1966 Trivia Quiz

Answer: £3,600

The average price for a house in the UK in mid-2016 is around £234,000. Back in the swinging sixties you could get yourself a reasonable roof over your head for just over three and a half grand. In today's money that's about £60,000. Proving that investing in bricks and mortar was a solid idea.

Answer: Camberwick Green

The Trumptonshire Trilogy first arrived on our screens in the form of Camberwick Green as part of the Watch with Mother programmes in 1966. The following year Trumpton appeared -- who can forget Hugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble and Grub? After Trumpton came Chigley, which I can't recall at all...

Answer: Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson won the snap election he called in March 1966 with a vastly increased majority of 96. He died in 1995, survived by Mrs Mary Wilson (she became Lady Wilson of Rievaulx in 1983).

Answer: FIFA World Cup Trophy

The FIFA World Cup, also known as the Jules Rimet Trophy, was stolen from on Sunday 20th March. It was taken from its case in Westminster's Central Hall where it was on display. Four months before England triumphantly lifted it with a win over West Germany in the final, a dog named Pickles saved the day with a chance discovery a week later.

Richard III was found in a car park in Leicester, conveniently under the letter 'R' of park. The Wimbledon Trophy has not been nicked, and no dinosaurs in south London.

Answer: Myra Hindley and Ian Brady

Responsible for the torture and deaths of five children aged between 10 and 17 - Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans the Moors Murderers were so named because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor. Hindley and Brady were charged with the murders of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride, as the other graves were not found at that time (one was discovered 20 years later in 1985).

Myra Hindley served 36 years in jail before being taken from prison to hospital where she died aged 60 in 2002. Ian Brady outlived her and became the longest serving prisoner in England and Wales.

Answer: Buster Edwards

Most of the gang responsible for the Great Train Robbery in 1963 were captured, tried, and imprisoned, but Edwards managed to escape arrest and go with his family to Mexico. Once the money ran out and his family became homesick he negotiated his return to England in 1966, was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Following his release he ran a flower stall by Waterloo train station.

He died by hanging aged 60, apparently thought to be too drunk to have committed suicide, although no-one else was sought in connection with his death.

Answer: Aberfan

Aberfan - a tragedy that cost a village its children - happened when 116 children and 28 adults lost their lives on 21st October 1966. Two weeks of heavy rain caused the mountain of colliery waste (slag and clay) that towered 800 feet over the town to come pouring down onto the primary school and surrounding houses.

The other choices are random 'Aber' towns - Aber meaning mouth of the river, or confluence of water.

Answer: The Wide Sargasso Sea

The Wide Sargasso Sea follows the story of Rochester's first wife, Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in Jamaica to her despairing marriage to Mr Edward Rochester - an English gentleman - although the book never mentions him by name. Antoinette Cosway - the first wife - is Bronte's mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre.

Answer: Born Free

"Born Free" followed the true story of the couple who raised Elsa the lioness and released her into the wild in Kenya. It starred Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson. Virginia McKenna has starred in all the choices, but Born Free is the only one based on a true story.

Answer: Muhammad Ali

Having converted to Islam two years earlier, Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, declared he was a conscientious objector and refused to go to Vietnam.