2023 Reunion: Intelligence Test for the 70+ Generation

Many years ago you passed the 11+ examination which tested your intelligence and suitability for a grammar school education. Today, the 70+ examination will test both whether you were awake in 1963, and your current suitability for long-term care. You may complete the questions below yourself, or revert to school traditions and copy off one another. Board rubbers will be aimed at anyone who is observed with a phone. Please select one set of answers from your table to be marked, one for all and all for one. Following the tradition of the 11+, your entire future will depend on the final mark: carers are on stand-by.

Questions concerning with the main event of 1963

• 1. Where were you on the evening of 22nd November 1963?
• 2. Where was JFK assassinated?
• 3. Who took over as the US President?
• 4. Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald?
• 5. Can you name one of the three other major assassinations that took place in the United States in the 1960s?
• 6. Who was the UK Prime Minister when JFK was assassinated?

Now move onto the things that were really on your mind in the 60's:

• 7. Who was The Skull?
• 8. What did Ming the Merciless teach?
• 9 . Where was Kenny Lynch in 1963?
• 10. What was the best-selling single of 1963?
• 11. Who Liked It in 1963?
• 12. Who won the FA Cup Final in 1963?
• 13. Who won the Rugby Union Five Nations Series in 1963?
• 14. Which Friday night T.V. programme opened with the slogan “The Weekend Starts here” ?
• 15. Who invited quiz show participants to “take the money” or “open the box” ?
• 16. Which long running TV series first aired on UK TV in 1963?
• 17. Which neighbouring grammar school did Albert Finney, attend?
• 18. Which Bond film premiered in October 1963?
• 19. Two famous authors died on the same day as JFK. Name one.
• 20. Who presented Easy Beat and Saturday Club on the Light Programme?
• 21. Who was the third man?
• 22. Who married Mr Allsobrook?
• 23. Who went on a Summer Holiday in 1963?
• 24. 70,000 protestors arrived in London in March 1963. Where did they start from?
• 25. The Secretary of State for War resigned two months later. Why?

MARKS AND COMMENTS

21-25	PASS	STILL COMPOS MENTIS
10-20	BORDERLINE	ALMOST COMPOS MENTIS
0-9	FAIL	DEFINITELY COMPOST MENTIS

ANSWERS:

• 1. In the Free Trade Hall Manchester (No marks for any other answers, even if correct)
• 2. Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
• 3. Lyndon B.Johnson
• 4. Jack Ruby
• 5. Any of: Malcolm X 1965, Martin Luther King 1968, Robert Kennedy 1968
• 6. Alec Douglas-Home
• 7. Mr Darbyshire
• 8. Geography
• 9 . Up On The Roof
• 10. She Loves You
• 11. Gerry and the Pacemakers
• 12. Manchester United
• 13. England of course
• 14. Ready Steady Go
• 15. Michael Miles in Take Your Pick
• 16. Dr. Who
• 17. Salford Grammar School for Boys
• 18. From Russia with Love
• 19. One of C.S Lewis or Aldous Huxley
• 20. Brian Matthews
• 21. Kim Philby
• 22. Miss Stephens
• 23. Cliff Richards and the Shadows
• 24. Aldermaston
• 25. He was having an affair with Christine Keeler