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Hard 70s Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our 70s set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard round reaches for the specific: a treaty year, a debut album that turned out to be a band's only one, the language written at Bell Labs, the Berlin recording sessions. Each answer is documented and permanent, so the difficulty comes from recall rather than from guessing at something disputed.
14 hard 70s trivia questions with answers
The Helsinki Accords were signed in which year?
Answer: 1975 Thirty-five states signed the declaration on European security and cooperation.
Concorde began scheduled passenger service in which year?
Answer: 1976 Air France and British Airways started services on the same day.
Which film won Best Picture for 1975 and starred Jack Nicholson?
Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest It swept all five of the Academy's top categories.
The 1974 album Autobahn was released by which German group?
Answer: Kraftwerk Its long title track was edited down for a surprise hit single.
Never Mind the Bollocks, released in 1977, was whose only studio album?
Answer: Sex Pistols The band had split within about a year of its release.
The US Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in which year?
Answer: 1973 The ruling was later overturned by a subsequent Court.
Which home console did Atari release in 1977?
Answer: Atari 2600 It popularised swappable cartridges rather than built-in games.
The first baby conceived through IVF was born in 1978 in which country?
Answer: United Kingdom The doctors involved later received a Nobel Prize for the work.
Egypt signed the 1978 Camp David Accords with which country?
Answer: Israel The talks were hosted by US president Jimmy Carter.
Which programming language did Dennis Ritchie develop in the early 1970s?
Answer: C It was created at Bell Labs alongside the Unix operating system.
Which 1977 David Bowie album was recorded largely in Berlin?
Answer: Low Brian Eno collaborated on its instrumental second half.
The 1973 oil crisis followed an embargo declared by which group of countries?
Answer: Arab members of OPEC Fuel rationing and speed limits followed in several countries.
Which 1976 Martin Scorsese film starred Robert De Niro as a New York cab driver?
Answer: Taxi Driver It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes that year.
The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission was a joint flight between the US and which country?
Answer: The Soviet Union The two spacecraft docked using a purpose-built adapter module.
Answer key
- 1975
- 1976
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Kraftwerk
- Sex Pistols
- 1973
- Atari 2600
- United Kingdom
- Israel
- C
- Low
- Arab members of OPEC
- Taxi Driver
- The Soviet Union
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