Can you name the winners and notable facts from the 1970s?

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Oscar Winners for Best Picture
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World Series Winners
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Most Watched TV Programs (US)
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Super Bowl Winners
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Time Magazine People of the Year
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Grammy Award for Record of the Year
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Significant World Leaders
Canada
Chile
China
China
France
France
Uganda
USSR
W. Germany
W. Germany

Countries Gaining Indepedence from UK
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Olympics Host Cities
1972 (Wntr)
1972 (Smmr)
1976 (Wntr)
1976 (Smmr)

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The Great 1970s Quiz

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Created Sep 22, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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	SoSoSmart:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:20 GMT		3 points
	Sapporo is spelled incorrectly.

	ArtVandaley:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:24 GMT		0 points
	Bonus answer for 1976 winter olympics in Denver??

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	JohnJF:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:27 GMT		0 points
	The years don't entirely line up, but it would be completely reasonable for somebody to get a Best Picture while going for a Record of the Year winner. What a decade!

	MovieDynamic:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:27 GMT		2 points
	A great decade! I wasn't around then but there was good stuff!

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	danzam:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT		1 point
	I can't believe I forgot the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins. (1972 season, 1973 Super Bowl)

	livfred:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT		3 points
	The list of Prime Ministers of Canada should include Joe Clark who was Prime Minister from June 1979 until the '80s.

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	johnlk:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 06:27 GMT		2 points
	St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines both became independent of Britain in 1979.

	capncokenojoke:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 06:38 GMT		5 points
	back when the pirates were good at baseball..

	tenoclockrobot:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 07:09 GMT		4 points
	it should be listed as The Sting

	SixFootFive:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 07:55 GMT		1 point
	The quiz question at the top needs to be cleaned up.

	frozon:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT		3 points
	Two comments: 1 It's spelled "Willy Brandt". 2 "Giscard d'Estaing" should be sufficient.

	groug:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:50 GMT		4 points
	Considering I guessed him in a different category, I'm surprised more people didn't get Deng Xiaoping.

	tiderc:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 09:55 GMT		2 points
	Shouldn't Willy Brandt be posted as person of the Year 1970? As i recall, Nixon won both in 1971 and 1972 (the latter tied with Kissinger) .

	Booger:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 12:53 GMT		2 points
	@tiderc: You are correct. Somehow 1970-72 got mixed up. I have sent this in for correction.

	HPZ:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 13:13 GMT		10 points
	@Booger or @SporcleAdmin: Can you fix the Can you fix the these title of this quiz? It's a bit, I say it's a bit repetitive and these confusing.

	Annie1:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 13:37 GMT		1 point
	i typed in "the" and the Oakland Athletics popped up.

	mustango:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 13:56 GMT		6 points
	I hit the '78 Grammy winner trying to guess the Super Bowl winners.

	dudemanbearpig:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 15:11 GMT		1 point
	@mustango: I did too.

	davebesag:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 15:58 GMT		5 points
	Why isn't Allende accepted for Chile as well as Pinochet (strictly Montalva should also be accepted).

	Catherine_F:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT		2 points
	I somehow got Grenada by accident...I was trying to backspace "Cardinals" at the time so I'm not sure how it happened. Apart from getting free points like that, this quiz was hard!

	Haunter:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 19:52 GMT		2 points
	back when good movies won best picture..

	Craig:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz but it's a little generous to count "as" for "Oakland Athletics". I got three freebies for guessing "Astros".

	MrsMcCartney1965:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 21:53 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz now where did I Put my Platform Shoes

	cheezguyty:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT		5 points
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines should be acceptable, considering it is actually the real name of the country.

	mungar:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:01 GMT		1 point
	My favorite decade of best picture winners by far.

	MovieDynamic:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:23 GMT		-1 points
	Back when good movies won Best Picture? So I suppose "Slumdog Millionaire," "No Country for Old Men," "The Departed," and "The Lord of the Rings" are all catnip? Please. And that's just from this decade.

	ThurinEthir:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:27 GMT		-2 points
	So more people know who won a certain a World Series/Super Bowl in the 70s than who Mao Zedong was... Nice. (or maybe it's just that they/you don't know he was in charge of China at some point in the 70s, but still...)

	kingstony:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:44 GMT		-1 points
	Shame that Mark Spitz didn't make man of the year when he won a record 6 gold medals at the ill-fated Munich games; can't beat a politician even if he is 'Tricky Dicky'

	Cat_Girl:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 01:55 GMT		2 points
	I kept trying to say Chou En-lai, but it was having nothing of it. @j66: The ever-crazy Charlie Finley took the name "Athletics" away from the team for several years in the 1970s, but they had a long tradition of the Athletic name dating over 100 years. Great quiz, BTW.

	clangggg:	Jan 13th, 2010 at 10:57 GMT		1 point
	"Godfather part 2" should be accepted

	howard38:	Jul 17th, 2011 at 00:20 GMT		1 point
	A's worked w/o an apostrophe but Godfather, Part II did not work w/o a comma.

	SirJustinian:	Oct 22nd, 2011 at 14:58 GMT		1 point
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or at least the spelled out Saint Vincent should both be acceptable answers.

	Statto2:	Oct 22nd, 2011 at 15:44 GMT		2 points
	Thanks to this quiz I've learned who John Sirica is. Ironic who he was named Man of the Year a year after Nixon (with Kissinger).

	serf_in_USA:	May 13th, 2013 at 05:27 GMT		1 point
	As awesome as it is to remember that totally UN-politically correct age (exemplified best in its tv programs), it also brings back some terror I expect at least a plurality of us had with regard to the potential for global thermonuclear war wrought by the standoff in the 10th hour of the Cold War, that decade does — all that "duck and cover" stuff we had to go through as far down as the primary school level. And it's really hard to believe that "Little House on the Prarie" didn't crack the decade's top-10 tv shows, too. Maybe my all-time favorite. TV shows were so educational back then.