1970's Triva

Think you know the rockin' 70's? Take our quiz and find out.

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  • 1. What highly successful music group jetted to fame after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest?

    • A. Deep Purple

    • B. ABBA

    • C. The Bee Gees

    • D. Genesis

  • 2. The first Earth Day was celebrated in what year?

    • A. 1970

    • B. 1971

    • C. 1975

    • D. 1977

  • 3. The monumental Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade in 1973 legalized what?

    • A. Marijuana

    • B. The drinking age as 21

    • C. Abortion

    • D. No-fault divorce

  • 4. Which rock legend did not pass away in the 1970s?

    • A. Jimi Hendrix

    • B. John Lennon

    • C. Jim Morrison

    • D. Janis Joplin

  • 5. Who beat out Francis Ford Coppola for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1972?

    • A. Bob Fosse

    • B. Stanley Kubrick

    • C. Federico Fellini

    • D. John Boorman

  • 6. Which was not a 1970's spin-off of All in the Family?

    • A. Maude

    • B. The Jeffersons

    • C. Gloria

    • D. Rhoda

  • 7. Which famous figure of the 1970s never publicly "came out"?

    • A. Freddie Mercury

    • B. Liberace

    • C. Andy Warhol

    • D. Harvey Milk

  • 8. Reporters from which newspaper exposed Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1972-73?

    • A. The New York Times

    • B. The Washington Post

    • C. The Washington Star

    • D. The Wall Street Journal

  • 9. Which 1970's horror novel was not written by Stephen King?

    • A. The Dead Zone

    • B. Carrie

    • C. The Amityville Horror

    • D. The Shining

  • 10. Which famous feature of North American architecture was not erected in the 1970s?

    • A. Sears Tower

    • B. United Nations Headquarters

    • C. World Trade Center

    • D. CN Tower

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