Remembering the 70s - 1970 Americana Quiz

Answer: The environment

In America, the modern environmental movement was born on April 22, 1970 in the first "Earth Day". Millions of people openly protested against air and water pollution, and in favor of a healthy, sustainable environment. This intensified the American public's awareness and led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts.

Answer: Love Story

"Patton" won a total of eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Characterizing the Academy Awards competition between actors as an unfair "meat parade", George C. Scott refused his Award.

Answer: Protesters

The 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago was disrupted by street riots and acts of police brutality. A group of young men, including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Jane Fonda's future husband, Tom Hayden, were charged with and tried for inciting the destructive riots.

They were found guilty by a jury and sentenced to prison in February, 1970. An appellate court later reversed their convictions.

Answer: Boog

John Wesley Powell first gained baseball fame when he played in the 1954 Little League World Series. In 1970 he led the Orioles to a World Series Championship.

Answer: Janis Joplin

Joplin, a gravel-voiced native of Port Arthur, Texas, started her rock career in 1966 with the group "Big Brother and the Holding Company". After classic performances at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival and at Woodstock in 1969, she died of a heroin overdose the next year.

Answer: Kent State

Firing over 60 rounds into a crowd of college students at Kent, Ohio, a group of National Guardsmen killed four students and wounded several others. An outraged public intensified pressure on President Richard Nixon to end the Vietnam War.

Answer: George Harrison

This was Harrison's biggest hit, and also was his first single as a solo performer. Unfortunately, he was sued in 1976 for plagiarizing the 1963 Chiffon's song "He's So Fine." While ruling that he had done this 'subconsciously', a judge nonetheless ordered him to pay $587,000 in damages.

Answer: Flip Wilson

The "Flip Wilson Show" introduced America to many of the comic's hilarious characters, such as Geraldine Jones and Reverend Leroy. The popular show finished as the number two rated program for the season.

Answer: Not to come

The Randy Newman song about "the craziest party that could ever be" hit number one on the charts in June, 1970. It included the lines "Mama told me not to come. That ain't the way to have fun, no ..."

Answer: Canned tuna

Suspecting deadly mercury levels in tuna, the FDA ordered the recall of almost a million cans. Mercury naturally falls into the earth's oceans and works its way back up the food chain collecting in the tissue of fish such as tuna. It wasn't until 1982 that someone tampered with Tylenol causing several deaths in the Chicago area.