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It takes a Boomer to remember if these things happened in the '60s or '70s
Sort out the disco from the flower power!
So much of… well, everything changed in the 1960s and 1970s. Pop culture, politics, food and fashion were constantly evolving. It was a fascinating time to be alive!
But can you remember when certain things happened? We're going to make it easy on you. All you have to do is place the following events into the correct decade.
Did they happen in the Sixties or Seventies? Good luck!
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The Postal Service introduces five-digit ZIP Codes.
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The first video cassette recorder is available for consumers.
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The Brady Bunch premiered on television.
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Diet Pepsi is first sold in stores.
Image: Pepsi
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Iron Eyes Cody sheds tears in a public service announcement for Keep America Beautiful.
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Cher divorces Sonny Bono.
Image: AP Photo
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For the first time, stamps cost a dime, as the letter postage rate is hiked from .08 cents to .10 cents.
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Led Zeppelin drops its debut album.
Image: Atlantic Records
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2001: A Space Odyssey is released in theaters.
Image: MGM
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The first ever UPC barcode is scanned in a grocery store in Ohio — on a pack of Juicy Fruit gum.
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The Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers join the NFL.
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For the first time, all three broadcast networks finally air a primetime schedule in full color.
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McDonald's debuts its Big Mac
Image: McDonald's
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Ford debuts its small car called the Pinto.
Image: Ford
It takes a Boomer to remember if these things happened in the '60s or '70s
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Tough quiz but good, also interesting!!
Not to nitpick, but the 1971 Pinto was released in 1970 (the “car model year” at that time always started in the fall of the previous year). Since there is no “Year Zero” on the calendar, the first decade A.D. (the first ten year period) was years 1-10. So that means that years that end in zero are the end of a decade not the start - 1970 is the last year of the 1960s decade (1961-1970).
* Okay! 8th 20th century decade began in 1971 BUT Decade referred to as "The 70's" began in 1970!
Very thorough!
You got 14 out of 14.
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
(For the record: Born in 1962, I was a toddler during the years of the of the oldest answers -- so a little deductive reasoning had 5o come into play.)
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
(For the record: Born in 1962, I was a toddler during the years of the of the oldest answers -- so a little deductive reasoning had 5o come into play.)
You got 11 out of 14
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
Would have been 12 out of 14 but I went by the picture on one and should have read the caption.
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
Would have been 12 out of 14 but I went by the picture on one and should have read the caption.
I’m not a boomer, I was born in 1976, but I got them all correct! Woo-hoo!!
It takes a Boomer to remember if these things happened in the '60s or '70s
You got 14 out of 14
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
It takes a Boomer to remember if these things happened in the '60s or '70s
You got 14 out of 14
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
13/14
You got 12 out of 14
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
You sure know your cultural history! We're guessing you're old enough to have lived through all this. Or maybe you're just super smart about history!
11/14
#7: I remember that Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files (1975) once mentioned you could mail a letter for a dime. Ethel Mertz remarked that a stamp was three cents in a Connecticut episode (1957).
11/14
12/14
Wow, and I am not even that old.
Wow, and I am not even that old.
10/14 and I AM that old!!
11/14
11/14, and yes, 1956 was right in the middle of the Baby Boom.
9/14; I was born in 1964 so I do not think I did too bad on this quiz.
15/14 Naled It!
11/14. I was born one year after the boom.
11 out of 14. But I'm not a boomer. I'm 48.
The Chevy Camaro was the top of the line back in the day....ooooweeee! How I remember those good ole days!!!
12/14, Iron Eyes Cody and Diet Pepsi did me in.
Is anyone, aside from me, aware of the fact, that the "actor" that portrayed Iron Eyes Cody, did not have one drop of Native American blood in him? He was 100% Italian!
14/14! 10 in a row and yes I'm an old guy! On Question 2, the first widely available VCR was actually the Sony Betamax in 1975, the ones you mention were prototypes, one of which was used by LBJ to record the network news!!
In 1975 my English teacher in high school had one and brought it in to show us (for some odd reason) 'Fiddler on the Roof' that he had taped.
Yep, I remember watching "Brian's Song" that way. At least I only had to watch for an hour and a half, your movie was twice as long!
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