Was Ringo Starr a king of chess?

CoNtiNuiNg my Summer of Love quiz, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the great explosion of hippydom. More than half right means you were definitely there.

1) Link the remark about hippies with the person who said it:

a) ‘ The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades’

b) ‘ Hippies are so phony and fake’

c) ‘ I’ve never been a hippie myself, but I’m an honorary hippie’

d) ‘ A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah’ i) Bob Dylan ii) Ronald Reagan iii) Alice Cooper iv) George Harrison 2) What was the hippie guru Timothy Leary’s most famous piece of advice?

a) Turn out, tune on and drop in

b) Turn up, tune in and drip out

c) Turn on, tune in and drop out

b) Turn in, tune up and drop by 3) In 1967 Timothy Leary predicted that, 40 years on:

a) ‘There will be deer grazing in Times Square’

b) ‘ Sharks, alligators and pythons will be sitting around with human beings, celebrating love’

c) ‘A flock of sheep will have the run of the White House’

d) ‘My pet goldfish Clancy will be running the FBI’ 4) Britain’s first ever rock festival was held on 29 May 1967. Where? a) The Isle of Wight b) The Isle of Man c) Spalding, Lincolnshire d) Glastonbury, Somerset 5) In Procul Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale, how many vestal virgins were leaving for the coast? a) 16 b) 1,000 c) 100 d) 15 6) In the lyrics of The Small Faces’ hippie anthem Itchycoo Park, the singer goes to ‘feed the ducks with a bun’. He then explains that the ducks have ‘all come out to groove about, be nice and…’ What comes next? a) Do what needs to be done b) Have fun in the sun c) Lay down their gun d) Set their lasers to stun 7) Which of these was NOT the name of a boutique on the King’s Road, circa 1967? a) Granny Takes A Trip b) Hung On You c) I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet d) Zonk 8) The lyrics to Traffic’s Hole In My Shoe begin: I looked to the sky/Where an elephant’s eye/ Was looking at me… What is the next line? a) Without taking a fee b) Through the gap in my knee c) From a bubblegum tree

d) With a mouthful of brie 9) Ringo Starr says that his most enduring memory of the Sgt Pepper recording sessions was …what? a) I learned to play chess b) I learned to loop-the-loop on my yo-yo c) I learned to play kazoo d) I learned to balance a broomstick on my little finger 10) Which track on Sgt Pepper did John Lennon later refer to as ‘a throwaway piece of garbage’? a) When I’m Sixty-Four b) Lovely Rita c) Within You, Without You d) Good Morning Good Morning 11) In September 1967, Flowers In The Rain by The Move was the first pop song to be played on the new Radio 1. But the group was forced to give all their proceeds from the record to charity after being successfully sued for libel by which of these members of the Establishment? a) The Prince of Wales b) The Prime Minister c) The Archbishop of Canterbury

d) The Leader of the House of Lords ANSWERS :1) a iii; biv;ci; d ii. 2)c. 3) a. 4) c; 5) a. 6) b. 7)d. 8) c. 9) a. 10) d. 11) b.