01·The 1967 Six-Day War began with a surprise Israeli airstrike against Egyptian airfields. What was its operational codename?
02·Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963 aboard which specific Soviet spacecraft?
03·Which film by Federico Fellini, depicting a journalist's search for love and happiness in Rome, won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival?
04·Which modern-day country, formerly the Bechuanaland Protectorate, gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1966?
05·Who was the chief organizer and logistical planner of the 1963 March on Washington, working largely behind the scenes?
06·On what date in 1962 was President Kennedy first shown reconnaissance photos of Soviet missile installations in Cuba, officially initiating the crisis?
07·In the 1966 World Cup final, which player scored West Germany's last-minute equalizer to force extra time against England?
08·The first radio pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Antony Hewish and which graduate student, who was initially overlooked for the Nobel Prize?
09·Which 1964 experimental film by Andy Warhol consists of a static, six-and-a-half-hour shot of the Empire State Building at dusk?
10·The term 'software', which gained widespread use in the 1960s, is credited to have been first used in print in a 1958 article by which statistician?
11·The master plan for Brazil's new capital city of Brasília, inaugurated in 1960, was designed by which urban planner?
12·Besides Mao Zedong, which member of the 'Gang of Four' was the deputy leader of the Cultural Revolution Group, established in 1966?
13·The automated pineapple peeling and coring machine, widely adopted by Dole in the 1960s, was originally invented in 1911 by whom?
14·What was the name of the first active direct-relay communications satellite, which broadcast the first transatlantic television signal in 1962?
15·Which 1966 Thomas Pynchon novel features a character named Oedipa Maas entangled in a centuries-old postal conspiracy?
16·At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Bob Beamon shattered the long jump world record by what astonishing margin?
17·The existence of quarks was independently proposed in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann and which other physicist?
18·Stephanie Kwolek, a chemist at DuPont, invented which high-strength synthetic fiber in 1965?
19·Construction of what dam on the Nile River, which created Lake Nasser, was largely completed in the 1960s with Soviet funding?
20·Which Jean-Luc Godard film from 1960 is considered a landmark of the French New Wave for its pioneering use of jump cuts?
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