<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">1960s Britain</span></div>

Which of these was not a pirate radio station?

Radio Caroline

Radio London

Radio City

Radio Sally

Which European leader vetoed Britian's application to join the European Common Market in 1963?

Federal President of West Germany, Heinrich Lübke,

President of France, Charles de Gaulle

President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera

Head of State of Spain, Francisco Franco

What development opened the way to the rise of supermarkets and the transformation of the retail industry?

Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance (RPM)

Devaluation of the pound

Youth-driven cultural revolution

Urbanisation

Which player scored a hat-trick in England's momentus defeat of West Germany in the 1966 Football World Cup Final?

Bobby Moore

Bobby Charlton

Geoff Hurst

Terry Paine

Which of these socially reformative Acts of Parliament was initiated first?

Abortion Act

Divorce Reform Act

Sexual Offences Act

Equal Pay Act

Who designed the iconic cover of the Beatles' 1967 album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'?

David Hockney

Andy Warhol

Peter Blake

Howard Hodgkin

After a landmark case, which book was published uncensored in 1961?

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Catch-22

A Clockwork Orange

Slaughterhouse-Five

Prior to 1969, women could only petition for divorce on the grounds of which marital misdemeanor?

Spousal assault

Abandonment

Ennui

Adultery

To whom did British PM Harold MacMillan make his famous 'Wind of Change' speech in 1960?

Parliament of South Africa

Lok Sabha (lower house) in India's Parliament

British Trade Unions

Parliament of France

What was the name given to the controversy surrounding the Secretary of War's affair with Christine Keeler, who was also seeing a Russian military attache?

Castle Affair

Lambton Affair

Stonehouse Scandal

Profumo Affair

Who was famous for popularising the mini skirt, the epitome of 1960s fashion?

Brigette Bardot

Mary Quant

Edie Sedgwick

Anita Pallenberg

What were the 850 women striking at the Ford factory in Dagenham 1968 demanding from their employers?

Shorter working hours

Equal pay with male co-workers

Better working environment

Longer maternity entitlements

Which notorious speech caused Conservative maverick Enoch Powell to be kicked off the front bench?

Rivers of Blood

Blood and Iron

Weapons for Squalid and Trivial End

Crisis of Confidence

Students were active agitators, such as in marching on the US embassy to protest the Vietnam War, but what porportion of Young Britons became students?

33%

10%

20%

In what year did Britain devalue the pound to tackle an enormous deficit?

1960

1961

1964

1967

1960s Britain

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