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Quiz: Movies from the 1960s

By Elissa Royal, March-April 2004





1. What actress, known at that time for portraying bitter women, played the vicious mother of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Lawrence Harvey) in The Manchurian Candidate?

  Joan Crawford
  Barbara Stanwyck
  Shelley Winters
  Angela Lansbury

2. The first Hispanic actress to receive an Academy Award earned it for a performance in West Side Story. Who received the Oscar?

  Rita Moreno
  Chita Rivera
  Rita Hayworth
  Raquel Welch

3. Bud Baxter (Jack Lemmon) strains spaghetti through a tennis racket for Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) in what movie?

  The Fortune Cookie
  The Apartment
  Irma La Douce
  The Odd Couple

4. What three-and-a-half-hour, heroic epic has no female speaking roles?

  Becket
  The Longest Day
  Lawrence of Arabia
  The Lion in Winter

5. A six-year-old girl narrates a story of life in the South during the Depression in what movie?

  A Raisin in the Sun
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  In the Heat of the Night
  Inherit the Wind

6. What 1960s musical was the last joint project of Rodgers and Hammerstein?

  My Fair Lady
  Finian's Rainbow
  Paint Your Wagon
  The Sound of Music

7. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave (Keir Dullea) disconnects HAL's higher-logic functions because the computer:

  refuses to acknowledge its fallibility
  loses a chess game
  kills the other astronauts
  mixes up the words to "Daisy Bell" ("A Bicycle Built for Two")

8. Katharine Ross starred as the love interest in which critically acclaimed movies of the '60s?

  Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
  The Graduate
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  All of the above

9. Omar Sharif starred in what '60s drama?

  Topkapi
  Ship of Fools
  Doctor Zhivago
  Judgment at Nuremberg

10. "Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) asked in what movie?

  Dr. Strangelove
  From Russia With Love
  The List of Adrian Messenger
  The Spy Who Came in From the Cold