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1. GEOGRAPHY: The Royal Mile in Scotland can be found in which city?

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Answer: Edinburgh

Appropriately, the street connects Edinburgh Castle with Holyrood Palace and is approximately a mile long. The Mile is a popular tourist attraction and bustles during the annual Edinburgh Festival. Other notable sights include the newer Scottish Parliament buildings at Holyrood, St. Giles' Cathedral and the Camera Obscura.

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Answer: India

India joined the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, and China in 1974 as a nuclear power. However, they weren't a part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The test was conducted at the Pokhran Test Range on May 18, 1974.

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Answer: Love Story

As it happens, both main characters (Oliver and Jenny) speak this line, with the recapitulation being a rather sad ending to a tragic love story. The quote slightly differs from the script, whose version was: "Love means not ever having to say you're sorry." We'll never know how well-received the original would have been, but the spoken quote was rated the top 13th quote in AFI's top 100 movie quotes list compiled in 2005.

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Answer: Richard Nixon

Nixon made his second trip to the USSR in June of 1974. The meeting between the US and USSR was to discuss a proposed mutual defense pact. Richard Nixon resigned office on August 9, 1974, due to the Watergate scandal.

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Answer: Flower bud

Cynara cardunculus, or the globe artichoke, is a member of the thistle family valued for its edible flower buds. The plant's reputation as an aphrodisiac may be attributable to Greek mythology: Zeus famously turned a young woman into an artichoke when she spurned his advances. The notion of being hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and peeling back the layers, certainly has a romantic feel to it. Aphrodisiac or no, these buds are bursting with nutrients such as dietary fibre, antioxidants, Vitamin C and folate.

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Answer: Symbionese Liberation Army

Patricia Hearst was kidnapped on February 4, 1974. During her captivity, Patty Hearst was coerced to commit armed bank robbery for which she was convicted after being rescued from the SLA. Patricia served nearly two years in prison before having her sentence commuted by President Carter. President Clinton later granted her a full pardon in 2001.

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Answer: A pirate

Ching Shih was hugely successful, commanding a crew of 20-40,000 and terrorising coastal towns all across China whilst also repelling numerous Chinese, British and Portuguese forces in the early 19th century. After a bad run in with the Portuguese and a fragmentation of her alliance, she finally accepted an amnesty from Qing Emperor Jiaqing and stopped her piracy in exchange for a royal pardon for her and her crew. This allowed them to keep their riches if they surrendered their weapons, with only a few hundred pirates being punished for their crimes. It was a pretty plum deal: where most pirates of historical renown were executed or killed, she was able to live on, marry her second-in-command Cheung Po Tsai and run gambling and prostitution institutes. Junks are ancient Chinese sailing vessels whose recorded use dates to at least the second century AD, though they could be older still. Hopefully the nautical connection gave you a shot at guessing that Ching Shih was a pirate.

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Answer: Wimbledon

Jimmy Connors and Christ Evert both won the Wimbledon men's and women's championships (respectively) in 1974. Connors defeated Ken Rosewall and Evert beat Olga Morozova. Connors had previously won the 1974 Australian Open, and Evert had previously won the 1974 French Open. Connors also won at Wimbledon in 1982. Evert won again in 1976 and 1981.

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Answer: Heart

Heart were an American rock band who took a while to settle a working lineup; they went by 'The Army', 'White Heart' and 'Hocus Pocus' before settling on Heart once and for all. Though formed in 1970, their most recognisable lead singers Ann and Nancy Wilson joined in 1973 and 1974 respectively. Whilst 'Never' (1985) and 'Stranded' (1990) did enjoy moderate success in the singles charts, it was 'Alone' (1987) which was an international hit for them achieving a number one in US and Canada with critical acclaim in Europe and Australia.

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Answer: The Godfather: Part II

"The Godfather: Part II" (1974) was nominated for 11 Oscars, winning six, including Best Picture, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Robert De Niro). "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003), a sequel, has also won this award.

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Answer: Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello was born in 1942 in Utica, New York and moved to San Francisco in California four years later. Having impressed in a Walt Disney production of 'Swan Lake', she was then personally recommended by Disney and offered the Mousketeer gig aged just thirteen, entertaining children nationwide as a variety performer. Most of the Frankie Avalon films were teen comedies themed around beach parties with subtle and original titles. 'Beach Party' (1963), 'Muscle Beach Party' (1964), 'Bikini Beach' (1964) ... you get the jist. Although she had agreed to Disney's request not to reveal her navel - to maintain her wholesome image - the navel was bared in all of these titles.

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Answer: 55mph

This was signed-off in January 1974 by President Nixon in an effort to reduce fuel consumption in response to the energy crisis of 1973. States were forced to abide by the law in order to receive federal funding for highway repair. The law was repealed in 1995 and speed limit laws were returned to the authority of the states.

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Answer: Oakland Athletics

Rollie Fingers was the MVP of the 1974 World Series. Oakland beat LA 4-1. Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson and James "Catfish" Hunter also played for Oakland. This series marked the first all-California World Series. Oakland and LA played again in the 1988 World Series, with the Dodgers winning the second time.

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Answer: Brat Pack

The Brat Pack was an unofficial group created by the media to describe actors who had appeared together in many coming-of-age films in the 1980s, particularly 'The Breakfast Club' and 'St Elmo's Fire' in 1985. David Blum wrote of the 'Hollywood Brat Pack' in a 1985 edition of 'New York' magazine after personally spending time with Estevez, Lowe and Nelson at the Hard Rock Café. Contrary to their talented and professional image, Blum wrote that they were a younger, greener 'Rat Pack' who had been rapidly catapulted into showbiz (in his eyes without having really earned it) and who liked to party. The article had such an impact that the group were encouraged not to work together again, and many of them subsequently experienced hitches in their career in the late 1980s due to drug and alcohol issues. Blum apologised in a 2010 interview and admitted he shouldn't have released the article.

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Answer: 715

Babe Ruth retired in 1935 with 714 home runs. Henry "Hank" Aaron passed Babe Ruth after hitting homerun number 715 on April 8, 1974. The Atlanta Braves were at home playing the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hank ended his career with 755 homeruns. That record stood until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007.

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Answer: Wham!

Their first performance was reportedly an awkward one; the audience of 15,000 at the Workers' Stadium in Beijing were so terrified of the large police presence that they sat rigidly in their seats with one engineer making the comment that "It was like the band were playing to prison inmates. It was really surreal." Simon Napier-Bell took 18 months to successfully negotiate the tour, sneakily undermining rival band Queen by presenting George Michael as more 'wholesome' than flamboyant Freddie Mercury on a leaflet. Although the act was more restrained than they would have been back in the UK, their loud and vibrant style left a strong impression on the Chinese and helped to open a cultural window between China and the West.

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Answer: George Foreman

Foreman was younger and the favorite going into the fight. Ali outlasted Foreman and won in the eighth round, by countout, to regain the heavyweight championship on October 30, 1974 in what is considered to be one of the greatest fights in boxing history. Zaire changed its named to Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.

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Answer: Club

Most British football (soccer) teams, such as Arsenal F.C., Chelsea F.C. and Everton F.C. go without the 'F.C.' in common parlance. It simply stands for 'Football Club' and is fairly universal in the titles of British teams, though 'A.F.C' - 'Association Football Club' - occasionally pops up as in the example of Swansea A.F.C. A group of union workers set up Arsenal as Dial Square in 1886, with Scotsman Dan Danskin pitching in three sixpence and fifteen colleagues a sixpence each. The team were then named after the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich - a munitions and research facility - and became the first professional London club in 1891. It may not be too difficult to guess the inspiration for their 'Gunners' nickname and cannon logo.

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Answer: Miami Dolphins

Miami beat Minnesota 24-7 in Super Bowl VIII in January 1974. Dolphin running back Larry Csonka was named the MVP. This was Miami's second Super Bowl victory in a row and third straight appearance.

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Answer: Dashiell Hammett

Despite appearing for the first time in Hammett's final novel, Nick and Nora Charles as a bawdy detective couple were popular enough as characters in the movie adaptation to serve as inspiration for five more sequels in the series. In fact, William Pow and Myrna Loy who played them were mistaken as real-life partners due to their on-screen chemistry and youthful irreverence. Oddly, he died over twenty-six years later in 1961, with his wife Lillian Hellman stating that whilst she had her suspicions as to why he stopped writing, she'd never asked and perhaps that was why she stayed with him until the day he died.

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Answer: Platforming Game

'Shovel Knight' was a retro-styled platforming game released for PC, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in 2014. Players would control a two-dimensional knight who used a shovel both to dig up treasure and to attack foes. It won The Game Award for Best Independent Game that year, beating out titles like 'Transistor' or 'Broken Age'. The game's designer, Nick Wozniak, said the game came about "sort of as a joke conversation over lunch that kind of got too serious." with a wish to reclaim some of the nostalgia of the NES classics they'd grown up with.

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Answer: Docked

A docked animal has had its tail removed, and the dock itself is the flesh of the tail where hairs grow. For the most part, it is domestic animals whose tails have been docked for reasons of safety or convenience. Whilst spaying is usually reserved for female animals, a spayed, fixed or neutered animal cannot reproduce. Due in part to consistent overpopulation issues, most countries ask that pets be neutered before adoption.

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Answer: Miss Colorado

Rebecca Ann King, born in Iowa, won the 1973 Miss Colorado crown and the 1974 Miss America crown. She used her scholarship money to become the first Miss America to earn a law degree. She graduated from the University of Denver Law School in 1977.

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Answer: 8 Simple Rules

I had to be careful not to give the game away by not saying 'rules' in the question... In any case, the original show's title was '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter' and the quoted statements were two of them. The other rules were similarly aggressive and protectionist, although Paul Hennessy - the father - showed a lot of love for his children beneath his tough exterior. The death of John Ritter, who played Hennessy, threw a spanner in the works and so the show's run concluded after a final series without his character.

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Answer: NC State Wolfpack

NC State defeated Marquette 76-64 to win the 1974 NCAA Basketball Championship. The Final Four was held in Greensboro, NC. David Thompson was named the Most Outstanding Player. The Wolfpack were coached by Norm Sloan.

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Answer: Spade

A spade is often used interchangeably with a shovel as a gardening tool. However, in British use a shovel tends to have a more curved blade (often with a pointed tip) and a longer shaft, where the spade tends to be smaller with a flat blade. "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside" ... In the UK, the bucket and spade are often sold together as garishly coloured tools that really come in handy when trying to build the world's biggest and best sandcastles. They can also be used to scoop up shells, pebbles and any other beach paraphernalia of interest.

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Answer: Carrie

Published in 1974, the novel "Carrie" was almost a no-go. King almost scrapped the work but his wife convinced him to continue. This was King's first published novel. "Carrie" was made into a motion picture in 1976, starring Sissy Spacek and John Travolta.

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Answer: Hindu

The Sanskrit term 'ratnaraj' literally translates as 'king of precious stones'. Like people, these gems were also sorted into castes, and gems of a higher caste were kept separate to keep the lower caste gems from contaminating the higher. Krishna was the god of compassion, tenderness and love and it was believed that the rubies represented the sun with its natural warmth, so made an ideal offering by those seeking life after death.

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Answer: Henry Kissinger

Israel was attacked on multiple fronts on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur in 1973. OPEC began an embargo against western nations; it ended in 1974 after a cease-fire was negotiated. US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger played a key role in ending the embargo.

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Answer: Carbon

The most famous fullerene is C60 - or buckminsterfullerene - which somewhat resembles a football (soccer ball). It is the smallest fullerene molecule that has pentagonal and hexagonal shapes where the pentagons don't touch one another, and was named after the architect Buckminster Fuller known for his geodesic domes. Whilst buckyballs are intriguing, researchers have struggled to find too many practical uses for them.

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