1970s Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which U.S. president resigned from office in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
2. A newspaper reviewing events in Iran in 1979 reports that the Shah left the country and Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile. What political transformation followed?
Iran joined the Soviet Union
Iran became an Islamic republic
Iran became a British protectorate
Iran restored the Qajar monarchy
3. Which band released the 1977 punk single “God Save the Queen”?
The Clash
Ramones
Sex Pistols
Buzzcocks
4. After Britain decimalised its currency in 1971, how many new pence made one pound?
12
20
240
100
5. You enter a late-1970s nightclub with a mirrored ball, a lighted dance floor, and a DJ playing extended dance tracks. Which musical culture best fits the scene?
Skiffle
Disco
Grunge
Bebop
6. Two players use paddles to return a moving square across a screen in a 1970s arcade game. Which game are they most likely playing?
Pong
Asteroids
Breakout
Space Invaders
7. In which year was the original Star Wars film first released in cinemas?
1971
1973
1977
1975
8. A school advertisement invites students to environmental teach-ins on April 22, 1970. Which new observance is it promoting?
Earth Day
World Oceans Day
Arbor Day
World Environment Day
9. A spacecraft launched in 1977 carries a gold-plated record containing sounds and images intended to represent Earth. Which mission is it part of?
Apollo
Voyager
Skylab
Viking
10. A U.S. television viewer in 1977 watches a hugely influential miniseries tracing an African American family from enslavement through later generations. What is the program?
M*A*S*H
Roots
The Waltons
All in the Family
11. A photograph from the 1973 oil crisis shows long lines of cars outside a gas station. Which event most directly contributed to those shortages?
The closure of the Suez Canal after the Six-Day War
A worldwide ban on leaded gasoline
An oil embargo by Arab petroleum-exporting countries
The breakup of the Soviet Union
12. In 1978, the Camp David Accords created a framework that led to a peace treaty between which two countries?
India and Pakistan
Greece and Turkey
China and Japan
Egypt and Israel
13. An engineer in 1971 describes the Intel 4004 as a major step in miniaturizing computers. What made it historically significant?
It placed a general-purpose CPU on a single commercial chip
It was the first commercial computer mouse
It was the first portable cassette player
It introduced the first graphical web browser
14. Which tragic event overshadowed the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich?
Members of the Israeli team were taken hostage by Palestinian militants
A major earthquake struck the host city
The Olympic flame was extinguished by a stadium fire
Most countries withdrew over a judging dispute
15. A news report from April 1970 says an oxygen tank exploded during a lunar mission, forcing NASA to improvise a rescue. What was the outcome of that mission?
The crew landed on the Moon but abandoned its experiments
The crew transferred to a Soviet spacecraft
The mission continued to Mars instead
The crew returned safely to Earth without landing on the Moon
16. Which actor played Tony Manero in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever?
Sylvester Stallone
Richard Dreyfuss
John Travolta
Burt Reynolds