60s Pop Culture
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50 free 60s Pop Culture trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
No decade remade popular culture as quickly as the 1960s. Television moved into color, rock music grew from dance crazes into arena-filling concerts and three-day festivals, Hollywood traded sword-and-sandal epics for younger and stranger films, and hemlines, hairstyles and toy aisles all changed with them. This quiz covers the decade the way people actually remember it: the bands and singers on the radio, the sitcoms, cartoons and variety hours everyone watched, the films that filled theaters, and the toys, snacks, cars and fashions that turned into crazes. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story behind the fact as you play. It is written for anyone who grew up in the sixties and for younger fans who know the era from reruns and record collections. Use it for reunions, milestone birthdays, family game nights or a decades-themed quiz night, on screen or printed out.
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Q 01Which guitarist closed Woodstock in 1969 with a feedback-drenched version of the US national anthem?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix did not take the stage until 8:30 on Monday morning because of rain delays, and many in the crowd left during his set.
Q 02Which Scottish actor became the first big-screen James Bond in the 1962 film Dr. No?
Sean Connery
Sean Connery was not what Bond's creator Ian Fleming had pictured, and Fleming doubted the casting until the first film proved a success.
Q 03Which 1966 series did Gene Roddenberry pitch as a space-going version of the Western Wagon Train?
Star Trek
Star Trek was nearly canceled before its first episode even aired, and NBC dropped it after three seasons of low ratings.
Q 04Which make of car is Herbie, the sentient racer in Disney's 1968 comedy The Love Bug?
Volkswagen Beetle
Herbie the Volkswagen Beetle wears the number 53 because the film's producer was a fan of Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale, who wore it on his jersey.
Q 05Which artist first showed 32 paintings of Campbell's soup cans at a Los Angeles gallery in 1962?
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol gave each of the canvases a different variety of soup, all hand-painted in the same 20-by-16-inch format.
Q 06Which singer's cover of The Twist sparked a dance craze and topped the Hot 100 in two separate runs?
Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker took the song from Hank Ballard, whose own 1959 recording had stalled at number 16 on the rhythm and blues chart.
Q 07Which children's show premiered on public television in 1969 with Jim Henson's Muppets in the cast?
Sesame Street
Sesame Street producers at first kept the human actors and the Muppets apart, on psychologists' advice that mixing them would confuse young viewers.
Q 08Which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller shocked audiences by killing its heroine in a motel shower?
Psycho
Psycho was the first film sold in the US on the condition that nobody would be let into the theater after it had started.
Q 09Which Marvel superhero, co-created by artist Steve Ditko, debuted in Amazing Fantasy in 1962?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man was a gamble: publisher Martin Goodman objected to the idea and agreed only to a tryout in the final issue of a series.
Q 10Which sporty Ford, unveiled at New York's 1964 World's Fair, sold over 400,000 in its first year?
Mustang
Mustang gave its name to the pony car class, and the millionth one was sold within two years of the launch.
Q 11Which singer, known as the Queen of Soul, turned Otis Redding's song Respect into a feminist anthem?
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin added the interlude that spells out the song's title, a flourish that Redding's 1965 original does not have.
Q 12Which 1965 film starring Julie Andrews as a governess in Austria won the Oscar for Best Picture?
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music overtook Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film in history and held that title for five years.
Q 13Which songwriter drew boos for playing with an electric band at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan played just three songs with the amplified band, in what was his first concert with electric instruments.
Q 21Which 1967 film stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, seduced by the married Mrs. Robinson?
The Graduate
The Graduate had a soundtrack recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, and the film's success boosted the profile of the folk-rock duo.
Q 22Which 1968 film ends with Charlton Heston's astronaut finding the ruins of the Statue of Liberty?
Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes earned an honorary Academy Award for John Chambers, whose groundbreaking prosthetic makeup turned the cast into primates.
Q 23Which 1969 Beatles album cover shows the four band members walking across a London zebra crossing?
Abbey Road
Q 14Which actor starred opposite Burt Ward's Robin in the campy 1966 Batman television series?
Adam West
Adam West won the part after the producer saw him play a James Bond-style spy in a Nestlé Quik commercial.
Q 15Which Hanna-Barbera cartoon became television's first prime-time animated sitcom when it debuted in 1960?
The Flintstones
The Flintstones took its inspiration from the live-action sitcom The Honeymooners, which William Hanna considered one of the finest comedies on television.
Q 16Which cookbook author became a public television favorite in 1963 as host of The French Chef?
Julia Child
Julia Child got the series after she cooked an omelette on a Boston book-review programme and viewers loved the demonstration.
Q 17Which singer wore a black leather suit for a 1968 NBC special later known as the Comeback Special?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley sweated so heavily under the lights that the leather suit stuck to his skin and had to be carefully removed after the first show.
Q 18Which teenage London model, born Lesley Hornby, did the Daily Express name the face of 1966?
Twiggy
Twiggy was a play on Twigs, her childhood nickname, and it was her manager boyfriend who persuaded her to adopt it.
Q 19Which childhood friend of Truman Capote won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
Harper Lee
Harper Lee modelled the character Dill on Capote, then helped him research his own book In Cold Blood.
Q 20Which Detroit record label did Berry Gordy run from a studio nicknamed Hitsville U.S.A.?
Motown
Motown grew out of an $800 loan that Gordy asked his family to make from their shared savings account.
Abbey Road was photographed outside the band's studio from an idea drawn by Paul McCartney, who appears barefoot and out of step with the others.
Q 24Which sitcom starred Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, who cast spells by twitching her nose?
Bewitched
Bewitched finished its debut season as the second-highest-rated show in America, with Samantha's mortal husband working at a Madison Avenue ad agency.
Q 25Which BBC series, first shown in 1963, features a time machine that looks like a blue police box?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who began 80 seconds late because of announcements about the previous day's assassination of the American president.
Q 26Which pop band was conceived by two television producers in 1965 for an NBC sitcom of the same name?
The Monkees
The Monkees sitcom won the 1967 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, and the four members later fought for and won control of their own recordings.
Q 27Which San Francisco neighborhood became the hippie movement's hub during the 1967 Summer of Love?
Haight-Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury drew hippies because rooms in its 19th-century wooden houses were cheap: a proposed freeway had pushed property values down.
Q 28Which London designer, owner of the boutique Bazaar, is credited with naming the miniskirt?
Mary Quant
Mary Quant reportedly named the skirt after her favourite make of car, the Mini, though who designed it first is still disputed.
Q 29Which toy with two knobs did the Ohio Art Company launch in time for Christmas 1960?
Etch A Sketch
Etch A Sketch was the invention of Frenchman André Cassagnes, and Ohio Art had no interest in the toy when it first saw it.
Q 30Which line of toy cars did Mattel launch in 1968 as a competitor to Matchbox?
Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels were styled as customized hot rods, unlike Matchbox's models of everyday production cars; the first model produced was a dark blue Custom Camaro.