Archive for March 2026
Here is the fourth installment of retro trivia from the decade of the 1970’s. These questions should be a little easier than the last three decades. As always the answers are listed below.
- Who was court-martialed in 1971 for atrocities committed in Southeast Asia?
- What became the capital of the reunited North and South Vietnam?
- What was the name of the Russian spacecraft that linked with an Apollo module in 1975?
- In 1974 what building became the tallest in the world?
- What woman won the Nobel Prize in 1979?
- What nation tried “The Gang of Four”?
- Name the senator that presided over the Watergate hearings?
- Where was the Queen Elizabeth when it caught fire and sank in 1972?
- Who was the first native American to be canonized by the Catholic church?
- Name the war hero who quit the Israeli cabinet in 1979?
BONUS QUESTION
What caused Iceland and England to sever diplomatic relations in 1976?
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Answers
Lt. William Calley, Hanoi, Soyuz, The Sears Tower, Mother Teresa, China, Sam Ervin, Hong Kong, Mother Seton, Moshe Dayan, BONUS-Cod Fishing Rights
COMING NEXT-1980’S
The 60’s were an interesting and drug filled decade. I lived through it and thoroughly enjoyed almost all of it, How much do you know or remember? Put on your bell bottoms and crappy sandals, drop some acid, and go for a walk on the street to chat with strangers. I dare you!
Lets step back into the 1960’s. As always the answers are listed below.
- What was the name of the “doorway” between the divided Berlins?
- In what city was the 1968 Democratic Convention held?
- Name of the Rockefeller that never returned from New Guinea?
- Who were the first astronauts to fly the two-occupant Gemini capsule?
- What was the first Apollo mission to carry a color TV camera to the moon?
- In what European city was Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin apprehended?
- In what area of the Dallas policed station was Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby?
- What popular tranquilizer was introduced in 1963?
- In 1968 which nation became the fifth to have “the bomb”?
- How was the Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann put to death?
BONUS QUESTION
What two nations combined to form Tanzania?
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Answers
Checkpoint Charlie, Chicago, Michael, Gus Grissom & John Young, Apollo XII, London, The Garage, Valium, France, He was Hanged, BONUS-Tanganyika & Zanzibar
NEXT UP – THE 1970’S
Here is the next installment of more retro trivia facts from the 1950’s. Lets see if you can improve on your score from the 1940’s quiz. As always the answers will be listed below. Have fun!
- How man presidents were elected in the 1950’s?
- Name the pope elected in 1958.
- Who did George Jorgensen become?
- Name the first atomic submarine.
- What lamp reached it’s height of popularity in the 1950’s?
- What British king died in 1952?
- The Ford Motor Company has never lived down the failure of what car, introduced in the 50’s?
- Name the political group that was established in 1950 by H.N. Arrowsmith, Jr,
- Established in 1953, NASA stands for what?
- What Russian word, popularized in the late 1950’s , means “fellow wayfarer”?
BONUS Question
Where did the unoccupied Soviet spacecraft Lunik journey?
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Answers
One, John XXIII, Christine Jorgensen, The Nautilus, Pole Lamp, King George VI, The Edsel, The American Nazi Party, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sputnik, BONUS- To the Moon,
THE 1960’S ARE NEXT
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