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Dateline: 1970

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : 1970s History : Dateline: 1970

Introduction:
"This is the second of my egocentric quizzes related to my birthday, January 13. It turns out that a lot of interesting things happened in 1970, the year I entered the world- see if you remember them."


1. One of the saddest events in American history occurred on May 4, 1970. National Guardsmen on a college campus fired into a crowd of protesting students, killing four. At which college did this occur?
    Penn State
    Yale
    Kent State
    UCLA


2. In 1970, this man was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
    Saul Bellow
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Samuel Beckett
    William Golding


3. 1970 was not a good year for music. The Beatles broke up, and both of these musicians died drug-related deaths.
    John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix
    Patsy Cline and Jimi Hendrix
    Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix
    Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison


4. On May 31, 1970, an earthquake killed more than 60,000 people in this country.
    Peru
    Mexico
    Japan
    China


5. On November 9, 1970, this former head of state died at the age of 79.
    Golda Meir
    Nasser
    Indira Gandhi
    Charles DeGaulle


6. In 1970, Salvador Allende was elected president of this country.
    Peru
    Chile
    Mexico
    Spain


7. Six days after I was born, on January 19, US President Nixon nominated this man to the Supreme Court; however, he was rejected by the Senate on April 8.
    Robert Bork
    G. Howard Carswell
    Clarence Thomas
    Harry Blackmun


8. On May 15, 1970, this nation was officially barred from all Olympic events by the International Olympic Committee.
    USSR
    South Africa
    China
    East Germany


9. I have to get a hockey question in. In 1970, this NHL defenseman set a record by scoring 20 points.
    Rob Blake
    Mark Messier
    Bobby Hull
    Bobby Orr


10. This 1970 film won seven Academy Awards, among them Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.
    Answer: (one word)


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