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I just attended my 40th High School reunion this past Friday. (1976 graduate)
For those of us who came of age in the 70's here's a quiz to see if you remember anything from that time.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture ... s(desktop)


PS
I got 29/30
but a few were guesses

I only got 19 right, but at least one of their answers was wrong (the one about mobile phones)--or at least, the question was poorly worded. So I really got 20. A couple of my correct answers were guesses, and all of my wrong answers were completely WAGs.

23/30...

Unsurprisingly, I scored 30 out of 30 on the next quiz listed, about Richard Nixon:

http://history.howstuffworks.com/histor ... n-quiz.htm

(Even though one of the answers was wrong. It was Alexander Butterfield, not John Dean who revealed the existence of the White House taping system to the Senate Watergate Committee. Dean didn't know about it; he just said he got "the impression" from the questions Nixon was asking that their conversations in March of 1973 might have been recorded. Dean has repeatedly in recent years tried to take credit for exposing the taping system, but that claim is false.)

I've heard it said that anyone who remembers the 60's really wasn't there.

26/30, I only had to really guess at a few. But then, I lived it.

I always say, "In the '70s everyone was on drugs. That's how Gerald Ford got to be President."

ETA:

26/30 on the Nixon one, too.

Sue U wrote: I always say, "In the '70s everyone was on drugs. That's how Gerald Ford got to be President."

I say you're wrong. I wasn't on drugs, then or now. I only knew a couple of guys who smoked pot. That was it, but maybe that's just the circles I ran in. I still only got 24/30.

Gerald Ford remains a mystery.

And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Lord Jim wrote: Unsurprisingly, I scored 30 out of 30 on the next quiz listed, about Richard Nixon:

http://history.howstuffworks.com/histor ... n-quiz.htm

I got 28/30 on that one. (Both of the ones I missed were about his early career in California.)Without your post I probably would've gotten that question (re the White House taping system) you mentioned wrong; I knew it wasn't Dean but I couldn't recall the correct name, so I probably would have taken a guess at one of the other 2 incorrect answers.

21/30

snailgate

26/30

27/30 on the Nixon taping; and I recall Butterfield as well disclosing the taping system--indeed, I wouldn't think Dean would have known about it given his counsel position.