1970's Triva

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