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Can you name the winners and notable facts from the 1970s? Enter an answer in the box below Correctly named answers will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger You have 12 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 6701 Broadway Opening Lines 4435 TV Shows (U.S.) 4280 You Do Know Jack 1793 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1755 Same Last Name 1449 And more...
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Oscar Winners for Best Picture
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1971
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1978
1979

World Series Winners
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1979

Most Watched TV Programs (US)
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1978-79

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
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1972 (Smmr)
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1976 (Smmr)

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	SoSoSmart:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	3 points
	Sapporo is spelled incorrectly.

	ArtVandaley:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:24 GMT	0 points
	Bonus answer for 1976 winter olympics in Denver??

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	JohnJF:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:27 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 08:27 GMT	3 points
	A great decade! I wasn't around then but there was good stuff!

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	danzam:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	1 point
	I can't believe I forgot the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins. (1972 season, 1973 Super Bowl)

	livfred:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 09:01 GMT	2 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 10:27 GMT	1 point
	St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines both became independent of Britain in 1979.

	capncokenojoke:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:38 GMT	5 points
	back when the pirates were good at baseball..

	tenoclockrobot:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 11:09 GMT	4 points
	it should be listed as The Sting

Oct 6th, 2009 at 11:55 GMT

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The quiz question at the top needs to be cleaned up.

	frozon:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 12:18 GMT	3 points
	Two comments: 1 It's spelled "Willy Brandt". 2 "Giscard d'Estaing" should be sufficient.

	groug:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 12:50 GMT	3 points
	Considering I guessed him in a different category, I'm surprised more people didn't get Deng Xiaoping.

	tiderc:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 13:55 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 16:53 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 17:13 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 17:37 GMT	1 point
	i typed in "the" and the Oakland Athletics popped up.

Most Watched TV Programs (US)
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1971-72
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1973-74
1974-75
1975-76
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1978-79

	dudemanbearpig:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 19:11 GMT	1 point
	@mustango: I did too.

	davebesag:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	3 points
	Why isn't Allende accepted for Chile as well as Pinochet (strictly Montalva should also be accepted).

	Catherine_F:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 20:54 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 23:52 GMT	2 points
	back when good movies won best picture..

	Craig:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:54 GMT	0 points
	Good quiz but it's a little generous to count "as" for "Oakland Athletics". I got three freebies for guessing "Astros".

	MrsMcCartney1965:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 01:53 GMT	0 points
	Great quiz now where did I Put my Platform Shoes

	cheezguyty:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 02:35 GMT	3 points
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines should be acceptable, considering it is actually the real name of the country.

	mungar:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 03:01 GMT	1 point
	My favorite decade of best picture winners by far.

	MovieDynamic:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 03:23 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 7th, 2009 at 03:27 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 7th, 2009 at 03:44 GMT	0 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 05:55 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.