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12/18/2025 “WELCOME TO THE 60’s Quiz”   3 comments

I’ve been posting quite a few quizzes in recent months with some truly difficult answers. Todays quiz is a general knowledge quiz from the 1960’s and the answers should be somewhat easier to remember unless you were a teenager during that time. Drugs will do that to anyone’s memory. As always the answers will be listed below.

  • Which Academy-Award winning film about two misfits was originally rated X?
  • What Nobel Prize winning author shot himself to death in 1961?
  • What animal did the Yippies run for president in 1968?
  • What disastrous military maneuver did the US back in 1961?
  • What was the center piece of the Seattle World Fair?
TWIGGY

  • What London street rose to prominence in the fashion conscious 60’s?
  • Which member of the Kennedy family survived the crash of a small plane?
  • What was the better-known name of the decades most famous model, Lesley Hornby?
  • What was the fourth nation to detonate a nuclear bomb?
  • Complete this anti-war chant, Hell, no . . .”

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🥎My Required Baseball Item🥎

  • Name the two Yankee baseball players who chased Babe Ruth’s homerun record in 1961?

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Answers
Midnight Cowboy, Ernest Hemingway, A Pig, The Bay of Pigs invasion, The Space Needle, Carnaby, Ted Kennedy, Twiggy, China, . . . we won’t go!, Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle.

I SCORED 9 OF 11 CORRECT

01/04/2024 “ODD EUROPEAN HISTORY”   Leave a comment

I’m a lover of all things historical. I’m always on the lookout for books and reference material concerning not just the history of the United States, but of the world. Like it or not the history of the world in its entirety is much worse than this country ever has been. Here are a few examples of that history.

  • The Olympic Games of 1916, scheduled to be held in Berlin, were cancelled due to “global unpleasantness.” Thats just another world for WWI.
  • The medical officer at the Birmingham prison in 1918 recommended that any condemned men be supplied with at least a dozen cigarettes a day.
  • In 1920, King Alexander of Greece, uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh, died after being bitten by a pet monkey.
  • In 1921 in Russia, while reporting on the famine, Arthur Ransome found an old woman so desperate for food she was reduced to cooking horse dung in a broken saucepan.

  • In 1923, Coco Chanel set the trend for tanning when, on a Mediterranean cruise, she inadvertently allowed herself to go brown in the sun. The fashion world immediately assumed it was the chic thing to do.
  • In 1927 during a London run at the Little Theatre, an adaption of Dracula, caused 29 people to faint requiring a nurse to be on hand at all showings.
  • In 1936 during his brief period as king, Edward VIII once avoided an awkward interview by jumping out a window in Buckingham Palace and running away to hide in the garden.
  • In 1938 having just returned from Munich and bringing “peace for our time”, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain requested an update on the long-tailed tits nesting in the Treasury building.

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