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50 free 1967 trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Some years are remembered for one event. 1967 is remembered for a mood: the Summer of Love on the American West Coast, rock festivals, protest marches, and a film industry learning to break its own rules. Underneath the music the news was heavy, with a brief conflict that redrew the map of the Middle East, unrest in American cities, and a space race that turned deadly on both sides. This quiz covers the whole year: the headlines and the politics, the songs, films and television that people talked about, the champions of the gridiron, the ring, the racetrack and the ballpark, the inventions that first reached shops and banks, and the future stars who were born while it all went on. It suits anyone born in 1967, anyone planning a birthday, a class reunion or an anniversary party for someone who was, and any adult who wants a free nostalgia round for quiz night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so the questions work just as well read aloud to a room or printed as played on a screen.
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Q 01Which Nordic country switched to driving on the right in September 1967, on a day known as Dagen H?
Sweden
Sweden made the switch even though 83 percent of voters had rejected it in a 1955 referendum. All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. that Sunday.
Q 02Where did surgeon Christiaan Barnard perform the first human-to-human heart transplant in December 1967?
Cape Town
Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital was where Louis Washkansky received the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall. He woke and talked with his wife, but died of pneumonia 18 days later.
Q 03Which NFL team beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in January 1967 to win the first Super Bowl?
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers won the only Super Bowl that was not a sellout. CBS and NBC both televised the game, each with its own announcers.
Q 04Which band debuted a song on Our World, the first live multi-satellite TV broadcast, in June 1967?
The Beatles
The Beatles sang All You Need Is Love for the first time to an audience estimated at 400 to 700 million people in 24 countries, the largest television audience up to that date.
Q 05Which lawyer who won the Brown school case became the first Black US Supreme Court justice in 1967?
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall had won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the court as a lawyer. He went on to serve as a justice until 1991.
Q 06Which McDonald's item did Jim Delligatti first sell in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in April 1967?
Big Mac
The Big Mac sold for 45 cents after failing under two earlier names, the Aristocrat and the Blue Ribbon Burger. A 21-year-old secretary at McDonald's headquarters, Esther Glickstein Rose, coined the name.
Q 07Which Disneyland attraction opened in March 1967, the last one Walt Disney personally oversaw?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean was first planned as a walk-through wax museum. The success of the boat ride It's a Small World at the 1964 New York World's Fair changed the plan.
Q 08Which daredevil crashed trying to jump the fountains at Caesars Palace on New Year's Eve 1967?
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel placed his last $100 on a blackjack table that morning and lost it. He paid actor and director John Derek out of his own pocket to film the jump.
Q 09Which podium ritual did driver Dan Gurney start after winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in June 1967?
Spraying champagne
Spraying champagne began as a pointed joke: handed a magnum on the podium, Gurney shook it and aimed at the journalists crowding around him. It is now a custom across motorsport.
Q 10Which children's author wrote the screenplay for the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice?
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a close friend of Ian Fleming but had never finished a screenplay. He called the novel Fleming's worst and kept only four or five of its ideas.
Q 11Which country's leader, Harold Holt, vanished while swimming at Cheviot Beach in December 1967?
Australia
Australia never recovered Holt's body, and the disappearance spawned a number of conspiracy theories. Melbourne later named a swimming centre in his memory.
Q 12Which heavyweight champion lost his title in 1967 after refusing to be drafted into the US Army?
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali cited his religious beliefs and his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was convicted of draft evasion but stayed out of prison on appeal, and the Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 1971.
Q 13Which 1967 film stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, who is seduced by an older married woman?
The Graduate
Q 21Which former actor took office as governor of California in January 1967 after defeating Pat Brown?
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was sworn in at ten minutes past midnight, an early start meant to stop his predecessor from naming judges at the last minute.
Q 22Which future Nirvana frontman was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in February 1967?
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain was introduced to punk rock by Buzz Osborne of the Melvins, a friend he made through art and electronics classes at school.
Q 23Which Pretty Woman star was born in Atlanta in October 1967 to parents who ran an acting school?
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts's hospital bill was paid by Coretta Scott King, in thanks for her father's work running the only racially integrated theater troupe in the region.
The Graduate was the highest-grossing film of 1967 in North America. Hoffman had already been cast in Mel Brooks's The Producers and begged to be let go so that he could audition.
Q 14Which singer's 1967 cover of Respect became her signature hit and won her two Grammy Awards?
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin rearranged the song with her sisters, and her engineer Tom Dowd credited the spelled-out title to her sister Carolyn. The original 1965 recording has no such passage.
Q 15Which banking device did actor Reg Varney unveil at Barclays in Enfield, north London, in June 1967?
Cash machine
The cash machine at Enfield beat a rival Swedish device into service by nine days. It took single-use paper vouchers, which the machine kept, rather than plastic cards.
Q 16Which Argentine-born revolutionary was captured and executed by Bolivian forces in October 1967?
Che Guevara
Che Guevara had qualified as a doctor in Argentina before he ever fought. He left Cuba in 1965 to start new revolutions, first in the Congo and then in Bolivia.
Q 17Which name is given to the June 1967 conflict in which Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria?
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War opened with a surprise air strike that destroyed nearly all of Egypt's air force. Israel ended the fighting in control of the Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
Q 18Which guitarist ended a set at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 by setting his guitar on fire?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix had hidden a can of lighter fluid behind his amplifiers before the set, because he knew the Who planned an explosive finale and did not want to be upstaged.
Q 19Which Canadian city hosted the 1967 world's fair Expo 67, which was originally awarded to Moscow?
Montreal
Montreal got the fair only because the Soviet Union cancelled its plans to host. The city's baseball team, founded two years later, was named the Expos in tribute.
Q 20Which animated film, released in October 1967, was the last produced by Walt Disney himself?
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book lost its first writer, Bill Peet, because Disney found his faithful version of Kipling too dark and sinister for a family film.
Q 24Which 1967 crime film stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Depression-era outlaws in love?
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is counted among the first films of the New Hollywood era, and its success prompted other filmmakers to be more open about showing sex and violence.
Q 25Which magazine did Jann Wenner launch in San Francisco in 1967 with John Lennon on its first cover?
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone was started with $7,500 that Wenner borrowed from his own family and from the parents of his future wife. It then came out every two weeks.
Q 26Which Mercury Seven astronaut died with two crewmates in the Apollo 1 cabin fire of January 1967?
Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom was the second American to fly in space, in a capsule he named Liberty Bell 7 and painted with a crack. Ed White and Roger Chaffee died beside him in the cabin's pure oxygen atmosphere.
Q 27Which crooner topped the US chart in 1967 with Somethin' Stupid, a duet with his daughter Nancy?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra took second billing on the label, behind his daughter's full name. The song had been recorded a year earlier by its writer, Carson Parks, and his wife.
Q 28Which basketball shot did the NCAA ban in 1967, a rule often linked to UCLA star Lew Alcindor?
The slam dunk
The slam dunk stayed banned in college and high school basketball until 1976. Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, improved his hook shot instead and won three straight national titles.
Q 29Which Soviet leader's daughter defected to the West in 1967 through the US embassy in New Delhi?
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, had been let out of the country only to carry her late partner's ashes to India. In New York she denounced her father's legacy at a press conference.
Q 30In which city did Elvis Presley marry Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in May 1967?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas hosted the wedding more than seven years after the couple first met in Germany, where Presley was serving in the army and she was 14 years old.