100 free 1960s Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This 1960s movie trivia quiz covers the films released between 1960 and 1969, from Psycho, Spartacus and The Apartment at the start of the decade to Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and Midnight Cowboy at the end. Expect the epics (Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra, Doctor Zhivago), the musicals (West Side Story, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Oliver!), the birth of Bond, the spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's last great scares, Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and 2001, and the New Hollywood shock of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who grew up watching these films on television, a third are medium, and the rest dig into casting stories, budgets, records and Oscar trivia that will separate the film buffs from the casual fans. Every Best Picture winner of the decade gets a look-in. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Who plays the shy motel proprietor Norman Bates in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)?
Anthony Perkins
The film was shot cheaply in black and white by the crew of Hitchcock's TV show and grossed about $50 million on a budget under $1 million.
Q 02Which 1960 Billy Wilder comedy about a clerk lending his flat to bosses won Best Picture?
The Apartment
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine starred; the 1968 Broadway musical Promises, Promises was based on it.
Q 03Who replaced the original director of Spartacus (1960) after Kirk Douglas removed him?
Stanley Kubrick
It was the only Kubrick film where he lacked complete artistic control; Douglas also broke the blacklist by crediting screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
Q 04Which 1961 musical won 10 of its 11 Oscar nominations, a record for a musical?
West Side Story
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins co-directed; Robbins also got a special award for the choreography.
Q 05Who wrote 'Moon River' with Henry Mancini for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)?
Johnny Mercer
Marilyn Monroe was among those considered for Holly Golightly before Audrey Hepburn got the role.
Q 06Which actor made his debut as James Bond in Dr. No (1962)?
Sean Connery
Fleming originally wrote Dr. No as a TV outline to promote Jamaican tourism, which is why Bond is sent to Jamaica.
Q 07Who played T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962)?
Peter O'Toole
The film won seven Oscars including Best Picture; Freddie Young shot it in Super Panavision 70.
Q 08Gregory Peck won his Best Actor Oscar for playing which lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)?
Atticus Finch
The American Film Institute named the character the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.
Q 09Elizabeth Taylor signed on to Cleopatra (1963) for what record-setting salary?
$1 million
Production began at Pinewood in 1960, shut down with ten minutes of usable footage, and restarted in Rome under a new director.
Q 10Which 1963 Best Picture winner starred Albert Finney as Henry Fielding's roguish foundling?
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson directed it from a John Osborne script; it took four Oscars from ten nominations.
Q 11Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) is set in which northern California town?
Bodega Bay
It introduced Tippi Hedren, and its screenwriter Evan Hunter was told to invent new characters around Daphne du Maurier's title and premise.
Q 12Who became the first Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar, for Lilies of the Field (1963)?
Sidney Poitier
He plays a handyman who builds a chapel for a group of East German nuns in the Arizona desert.
Q 13Steve McQueen's motorcycle jump is the famous stunt from which 1963 POW film?
The Great Escape
It won McQueen Best Actor at the Moscow International Film Festival, of all places.
Q 21Which 1965 film overtook Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film ever?
The Sound of Music
It broke box-office records in 29 countries after opening to mixed reviews.
Q 22Because Pasternak's novel was banned in the USSR, where was Doctor Zhivago (1965) mostly filmed?
Spain
Omar Sharif and Julie Christie starred; critics grumbled about the three-hour length but it won five Oscars.
Q 23Thunderball (1965) was the first Bond film shot in which widescreen format?
Panavision
About a quarter of the film is underwater, and it was Terence Young's third and last Bond.
Q 14Ray Harryhausen's fight between the hero and seven skeleton warriors comes from which 1963 film?
Jason and the Argonauts
It flopped on release but is now regarded as a classic; Bernard Herrmann wrote the score.
Q 15In Dr. Strangelove (1964), how many different characters does Peter Sellers play?
Three
The President, the title scientist and an RAF exchange officer; George C. Scott's general and Slim Pickens's bomb-riding pilot round out the madness.
Q 16Goldfinger (1964) turned which car into the biggest-selling toy of the year via Corgi?
Aston Martin DB5
It was the first Bond film to take over $100 million, on a budget equal to the first two films combined.
Q 17Mary Poppins (1964) was the feature-film debut of which actress, who won the Best Actress Oscar for it?
Julie Andrews
Warner Bros. had passed her over for the film of My Fair Lady, her own stage role, in favour of Audrey Hepburn.
Q 18Who played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady?
Audrey Hepburn
Rex Harrison reprised his stage Higgins and won Best Actor; the film took eight Oscars.
Q 19Clint Eastwood's first leading role was in which 1964 spaghetti western?
A Fistful of Dollars
He was paid $15,000; the film was an unofficial remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and Toho sued successfully.
Q 20Who directed the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night?
Richard Lester
It follows a fictional 36 hours in the band's life and is credited with inspiring the Monkees' TV show and the music video.
Q 24Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) starred which real-life married pair as George and Martha?
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
All four credited cast members were nominated, a first, and it was nominated in every category it was eligible for.
Q 25Who played Sir Thomas More in the 1966 Best Picture winner A Man for All Seasons?
Paul Scofield
He'd created the role in the West End; Robert Shaw played Henry VIII and John Hurt had one of his earliest screen parts.
Q 26In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), who plays 'the Ugly'?
Eli Wallach
The Italian title actually orders them good, ugly, bad; the film was shot mostly in Spain's Tabernas Desert.
Q 27Which duo recorded the soundtrack for The Graduate (1967), including 'Mrs. Robinson'?
Simon & Garfunkel
It was the top-grossing film of 1967 in North America, and Mike Nichols won Best Director.
Q 28Who played Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and also produced the film?
Warren Beatty
Faye Dunaway was Bonnie; Estelle Parsons won the film's only acting Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress.
Q 29Which 1967 Best Picture winner gave us the line 'They call me Mister Tibbs!'?
In the Heat of the Night
Rod Steiger won Best Actor as the Mississippi police chief; the title song was sung by Ray Charles.
Q 30Which actor, who died 17 days after filming ended, made his ninth and final film with Katharine Hepburn in 1967?
Spencer Tracy
Hepburn said she never watched the finished film because it would be too painful.