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The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz

Arts and Leisure

52 How did artist Jean Tinguely inaugurate the decade of conceptual, non-buyable art at the Museum of Modern Art?

53 When the Mona Lisa visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1963, how long were visitors allowed to puzzle over her mysterious smile?

54 In 1968, how did Yves St-Laurent announce he was protesting the Vietnam War?

55 Early in the '60s, what famous novelist and what famous movie star either killed themselves or were murdered by the CIA?

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56 Name five of the ten top-rated television shows from 1964.

57 According to the Rolling Stones, who killed the Kennedys?

58 Who was the middle-aged woman whose screeching recording of "Downtown" sold 250.000 copies in 1966?

59 Place the following in chronological order: A)Dr. No the first James Bond movie B) Leonard Bernstein's fund-raising party for the Black Panthers C) A Separate Peace. D) the first topless bathing suit. E) the first moon-walk. F) Catch-22. G) The first heart transplant. H) Telstar. I) The Northeast power failure J) The Great Profetarian Cultural Revolution and Bob Dylan's motorcycle crash.

60 Who told a ping-pong opponent, "If you beat me. I'll give you Cuba," and on another occasion decreed that since the baseball team he was pitching for was losing, the game would go into extra innings?

61 What professional football player inspired the question: "Will he be traded to Cleveland or stick it out in Dallas"?

General Knowledge

62 In 1964, what did presidential candidate Barry Goldwater propose to do with The Eastern Seaboard?

63 Who said: "Many Americans don't like simple things. That's what they have against we conservatives"?

64 What happened to Cleveland's Cuyahoga River in 1969?

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