1970s quiz
The answers to the clues given below all relate to events or people from the 1970s. How many can you answer correctly? One guess per clue. No use of reference material or the internet of course to ensure fair play. Good luck.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5am tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. What country replaced a shah with an ayatollah?
2. What Asian city hosted a major boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?
3. What caused a global recession in 1973?
4. Who made the paddle-based game Pong which was the first commercially successful video game lauched in 1972?
5. What was the name given to the scandal which took down Richard Nixon?
6. What became the world's tallest building in 1973?
7. What brutal dictator seized power in Cambodia?
8. What city fell to communists on April 30, 1975?
9. What city hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, marred by an attack
by Palestinian terrorists?
10. The leader of which country was assassinated on March 25, 1975
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5am tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. What country replaced a shah with an ayatollah?
2. What Asian city hosted a major boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?
3. What caused a global recession in 1973?
4. Who made the paddle-based game Pong which was the first commercially successful video game lauched in 1972?
5. What was the name given to the scandal which took down Richard Nixon?
6. What became the world's tallest building in 1973?
7. What brutal dictator seized power in Cambodia?
8. What city fell to communists on April 30, 1975?
9. What city hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, marred by an attack
by Palestinian terrorists?
10. The leader of which country was assassinated on March 25, 1975
