1960s Britain

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%
3%
In what year did Britain devalue the pound to tackle an enormous deficit?
1960
1961
1964
1967
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