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US Vice President Spiro Agnew was convicted of which offence in 1973?
Tax Evasion
Tax Evasion
Murder
Murder
Kidnap
Kidnap
Fraud
Fraud
In 1979, the Sandinista rebels were active in which central American country?
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Guatemala
Brazil
Brazil
Pope John Paul I was pope for only how many days in 1978?
33
33
55
55
22
22
88
88
In the 70’s, what was a ‘TR7’?
Car
Car
Boiled sweet
Boiled sweet
Flashing pogo stick
Flashing pogo stick
Tape recorder
Tape recorder
Saddam Hussein become president of Iraq at the end of which decade?
1990s
1990s
1980s
1980s
1970s
1970s
1960s
1960s
Bo Derek made them popular in the 1970s, and hip hoppers brought them back in the 1990s. What are cornrows?
Golden rings
Golden rings
A belt buckle
A belt buckle
A hair style
A hair style
High heel shoes
High heel shoes
The BBC Open University started in January 1971 in which country?
Canada
Canada
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Italy
Italy
Australia
Australia
The Rosenkowitz sextuplets were born in 1974 in which country?
Australia
Australia
Canada
Canada
Brazil
Brazil
South Africa
South Africa
How old was singer Janis Joplin when she died in September 1970?
18
18
37
37
27
27
32
32
What 1979 Ridley Scott movie starred Sigourney Weaver?
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Alien
Caligula
Caligula
Mad Max
Mad Max
The early 70’s single ‘Wand’rin Star’ came from which film?
The Sting
The Sting
The Graduate
The Graduate
Butch Cassidy…
Butch Cassidy…
Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon
The 1970s band Can were formed in which country?
Australia
Australia
Germany
Germany
Holland
Holland
France
France
The UN designated 1979 as International year of the what?
Environment
Environment
Animal
Animal
Horse
Horse
Child
Child
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of which country was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970?
Canada
Canada
Japan
Japan
USSR
USSR
Australia
Australia
The unarmed ‘Guardian Angels’ organization started in which US city in 1979?
New York
New York
Baltimore
Baltimore
Chicago
Chicago
Detroit
Detroit
In 1978, which European country was the first in the world to ban aerosols?
Sweden
Sweden
France
France
Spain
Spain
Denmark
Denmark
66 football fans were crushed to death at a match in which city in 1971?
London
London
Liverpool
Liverpool
Glasgow
Glasgow
Belfast
Belfast
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