Decade of Death: the 60s Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clark Gable

It was Clark Gable, possibly best known for his role in "Gone With The Wind". Gable was nicknamed the "King of Hollywood".

Oliver Hardy died in 1957, Stan Laurel in 1965 and Buster Keaton passed away in 1966.

Answer: Carl Jung

Jung was, like Freud, a depth psychologist and the founder of analytical psychology. Freud had already died in 1939 and was the founder of psychoanalysis. Jung and Freud used to be partners but ended up in academic quarrels with each other. Wertheimer, a gestalt pyschologist, died in 1943. Maslow passed away in 1970 and is a humanist psychologist known for his hierarchy of human needs.

Answer: 1926

Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortensen on the 1st June 1926 in LA. No further information required, I think!

Answer: Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley is author of numerours works including "Brave New World". Herbert George Wells (author of "War of the Worlds") died in 1946. George Orwell (author of "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four") died in 1950. Saul Bellow ("Seize the Day") lived till 2005.

C.S. Lewis also died on 22.11.1963.

Answer: Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur led the US forces in the Pacific in WWII. MacArthur was also commander of the UN forces in the Korean War, a post from which he was forced to resign. He was then and later criticised for his plans to throw a cobalt bomb in the Chinese Sea to make it radioactive. Later calculations on the plan made clear this would have been the end of mankind and perhaps all life on earth.

Patton was a US general on the European front. He died in 1945 in Germany. Eisenhower (aka "Ike") died in 1969 and was commander of the Allied forces in Europe and became president of the United States. Montgomery was the main British general on the European front.

Answer: Winston Churchill & Malcolm X

Both Churchill and Malcolm X died in 1965. Churchill, the legendary UK prime minister, was the first to really oppose the Nazis. Malcolm X was one of the leaders of the Nation of Islam. He was murdered by rivals within the Nation of Islam.

The other people mentioned in this question died in the following years:
1952 Eva 'Evita' Perón (Argentinian first lady)
1959 George Marshall (American politician, 'the Marshall Plan')
1973 David Ben-Gurion (First prime minister of Israel)
1973 Salvador Allende (Chilean president from 1970 to military coup in 1973)
1977 Andreas Baader (German RAF terrorist)
1987 Rudolf Hess (German politician, party leader of the nazi party NSDAP and second man after Hitler)

Answer: Walt Disney

It was Walt Disney.

Answer: Clement Attlee & Konrad Adenauer

Clement Attlee and Konrad Adenauer both died in 1967. Attlee defeated Churchill in the 1945 general election and became Prime Minister. Adenauer was West Germany's chancellor (prime minister) holding office from 1949 till 1963 - by then the longest serving German chancellor since Bismarck.

Charles de Gaulle, France's resistance hero and later president, died in 1970. Dag Hammarskjöld died in 1961. He was Swedish politician and secretary-general of the United Nations.

Answer: Los Angeles

Bobby, who was JFK's younger brother, suffered the same fate as his brother in Los Angeles. Bobby Kennedy was running for presidency as he was shot.

Answer: Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the North Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War.

Zapata, the legendary Mexican Rebel, died in 1919. Che Guevara, the Cuban guerilla of Argentinian origin, was shot in Bolivia in 1967. Kim Il Sung, the infamous North Korean leader, died in 1994.