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1. The first video game I ever played was very simple--I controlled a paddle and tried to knock a ball past the other player's paddle. Do you know the name of this game?
2. Sometime in the 1970s, my parents bought something for the kitchen that made cooking much, much quicker. Over 90% of all homes have one now, but only one family in a hundred owned one in 1971. Do you know what I'm talking about?
3. When I was a kid, I ate a lot of candy, and when I was six, a new candy came out--it was sold in a little pouch, the candy looked like pebbles, and it fizzed in your mouth when you ate it. Can you guess what this candy was called?
4. In 1976 there was a funny song that was played a lot on the radio, and it was about a kind of bird who liked a kind of music. Can you figure out what it was called?
5. One of the TV shows I used to watch when I was a kid was about an astronaut who got into a crash and got hurt. The scientists spent a lot of money and fixed him up, though, with body parts like a robot would have. Do you know what this show was called?
6. When I was a kid in America in the late 1970s, there was a shortage of something very important for cars. Can you guess what it was that we ran short of?
7. We used to go to movies when I was a kid, and some theaters were out in the open air--you took your car to the movies, watched them on a big, outdoor screen and listened to the sound on your car radio! What do you think these theaters were called?
8. When I was eight years old I waited in a line that stretched around the block, just so that I could see a cool new science fiction movie. What movie had characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi and R2D2 in it?
9. I remember that I used to watch sports on television as a kid, and I liked one sport better than all the others. Can you think of my favorite sport if I tell you that I watched Terry Bradshaw playing quarterback, Too Tall Jones playing defensive end, and Ray Guy playing punter?
10. I used to come home from school and turn on cartoons on the television. One of my favorite cartoons was about a gang of kids who solved crimes with the help of their Great Dane dog. Do you know the name of this dog?
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