What do you remember about 1973?

[sneezles]

I watch quite a bit of BBC America and they have a new show called Life on Mars that's looks pretty good so far...only one episode has aired. They have a quiz on their website about 1973 and even though I was 21 at the time I guess I've lost too many brain cells because I only got 8/11.

Here's the quiz (http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/drama_mysteries/life_on_mars/life_on_mars_quiz_what_do_you_remember_about_1973_ play.jsp)

[sharris315]

Your score sounds great compared to my 3/11 :o It was a fun quiz, though.

Shar

[zwieback]

I only got 1 out of 11. But, seeing as though I wouldn't be able to remember anything from 1973 because I was born in late November of 1973, I'd say that's not too shabby! :p :D

[sneezles]

Your score sounds great compared to my 3/11 :o It was a fun quiz, though.

Shar

Most of mine were pure guesses!

[Goin' Coastal]

Well, I only got 5/11. I was in college then - must have been spending too much time studying to keep up on current affairs! :D

[Laura]

Well I was 11 in 1973 but I got 9/11 right. There was some good guessing going on, but I could often elminate two.

[erinlovesmarc]

I wasn't even born yet... :D :p

[funnybone]

I got 5 out of 11. My youngest sister was born, and I was 9 years old.

[lindrusso]

Okay, I got 4/11 right and those were just lucky guesses. I was 7 years old in 1973.

But my beef is that they don't tell you what the right answer is! :mad:

[masimmons]

7/11
I graduated high school in 1973.

[DeeK]

I am embarrassed to say I only got 4 out of the 11. I graduated from high school in 1973. Guess I wasn't paying attention to the news much.

[AZLorena]

I was 2 in 1973 and I got 2/11 on the quiz..... :)

[Melman]

6 of 11. I only KNEW about 3 of them. Guessed on the others. :D I did fairly well on the pop culture stuff. It was when the questions were more "worldly" that I did some bad guessing. Fun quiz!!

[fci5767]

Apparently I was quite oblivious to the world's events when I was six. I only got one right :(.

Oh well.

[Aubergine]

i'll have to look for that. interesting thread, b/c the American Masters on PBS show about Walter Cronkite's career brought back sooooooo many memories. i recall my own personal life in 1973 very clearly, despite all the drugs.:D i turned 20 that january, and still remember sitting in my first apt. writing in my journal that day, and much of what ensued. i recall the fashions -- blue nail polish, platform shoes, bell bottoms... as for current events, i'd have to take the test, i guess. ----> going to website...

ETA: how do you get your score? did i take the wrong test? it was about the 70's...

[DeeK]

Second time through I got 9 of 11. Now I feel better.

ETA: how do you get your score? did i take the wrong test? it was about the 70's...

Everytime you answer a question it will roll over to the next question. At the top of that screen it will tell you whether you were correct or incorrect and the number of correct answers vs. total questions.

[cniles]

Apparently I was quite oblivious to the world's events when I was six. I only got one right :(.

Oh well.

Me too!!! 1/11 and I was 7 at the time! :)

[Wendy w]

Okay, I got 4/11 right and those were just lucky guesses. I was 7 years old in 1973.

But my beef is that they don't tell you what the right answer is! :mad:

4/11 too, but I was only 13 at the time.

[Aubergine]

Second time through I got 9 of 11. Now I feel better.



Everytime you answer a question it will roll over to the next question. At the top of that screen it will tell you whether you were correct or incorrect and the number of correct answers vs. total questions.

i must be taking the wrong quiz...it doesn't happen. the questions are about clothing styles, cars, stuff like that...something about "how well would you survive the 70's"... the only other quiz i find is about deep history, Chas II, etc.

[Leslie Ferguson]

:o 5/11 - don't tell anyone in my family as I'm the Trivial Pursuits champ in the clan.
Les

[LakeMartinGal]

4/11... DH was in the Navy, and I was working full-time... didn't pay attention to ANYTHING! As you can tell by my score! :o :rolleyes:

Aubergine, just click on the link in the first post... takes you right to the quiz!

[mmbedard]

8/11 and I was 13. Some I actually knew, others were just really good guesses!

[KAnn]

8 out of 11 and I was 13, too!

[wallycat]

2 out of 11 (and I had to guess)...and I was 16. Guess I really was in my own little world.
Ha, the british sitcom I knew because I'm watching the reruns on pbs NOW!

[Aubergine]

4/11... DH was in the Navy, and I was working full-time... didn't pay attention to ANYTHING! As you can tell by my score! :o :rolleyes:

Aubergine, just click on the link in the first post... takes you right to the quiz!

Lake, tx, duh!!! never noticed the link.

well, that was humbling... and frustrating, majorly!! very, very difficult. i got 6/11. dang! but, in all fairness, (aka, in my defense), it takes a certain kind of brain to recall which Motown artist had the #1, and who was Time's Man of the Year...<sigh> there wasn't a question that i wasn't familiar with, but the answers...tougher than Jeopardy and the NYT X-word combined.

at least it reminded me of the next CDs i am going to order from amazon, and it's not the Motown (have them), but T-Rex, et al. wow. "there's something about you, girl/that makes me sweat/so move over here, and give me a moment...."

oh, heavens, i'm feeling faint already...

[zwieback]

If you keep hitting the back button after every question you answer incorrectly, you can get them all correct (eventually)! :p ;) :D

[Aubergine]

If you keep hitting the back button after every question you answer incorrectly, you can get them all correct (eventually)! :p ;) :D
mebbe true, but i went through it twice, and concluded that i didn't really care about the results, in the sense that, for example, i know zero about soaps.:rolleyes: my gut tells me that they stacked the deck, in order to gain viewers and/or attach data-miners to our 'puters. just my thoughts.

[Gumbeaux]

Well, the person that made the test got one question wrong. :D

It says that Jim Croce is the correct answer to the question #3 which is not true. Jim Croce died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, LA. The crash site is not "off the coast" but several hundred miles inland.

http://www.jimcroce.com/periodical_6.html

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/bayoutitan/croce.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/bayoutitan/croce2.jpg

[Goin' Coastal]

Well, the person that made the test got one question wrong. :D

It says that Jim Croce is the correct answer to the question #3 which is not true. Jim Croce died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, LA. The crash site is not "off the coast" but several hundred miles inland.

http://www.jimcroce.com/periodical_6.html

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/bayoutitan/croce.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/bayoutitan/croce2.jpg

That was one I got correct - I always liked Jim Croce's music. I still have some of his albums (yes, real albums!) and enjoy listening to them sometimes on the "state of the art" stereo system we bought ( and still have) back in the seventies!

[Kay Henderson]

Good grief! I was 28 and should have known this stuff! Only got 5/11 correct. :(

Kay

[Aubergine]

thank you, gumbeaux!! that was one of the few answers i was 100% certain of, which is why i decided the whole thing was nonsense.

[Kayaksoup]

I was not born til 1979 and I managed 7/11
ETA
Rob, who was 16, managed the same score as me :eek:

[zwieback]

mebbe true, but i went through it twice, and concluded that i didn't really care about the results, in the sense that, for example, i know zero about soaps.:rolleyes: my gut tells me that they stacked the deck, in order to gain viewers and/or attach data-miners to our 'puters. just my thoughts.

Chill out. Don't take this thing so seriously. It is just for fun. It isn't a test of intelligence or anything. Just pure fun. If you don't care about the results, stop posting on this thread. This quiz is just for fun.

[Peweh]

I was not born til 1979 and I managed 7/11
ETA
Rob, who was 16, managed the same score as me :eek:

Wow Kayak! Good work. I was born in 1973 (one month after Zwieback!) and got 3/11.

[Canice]

I got 7/11. Some luck, some memory.

I was 8 years old that summer and I remember it well: my older brother was in Europe for the summer (I have no recollection of my older sister during those years :eek: ) and both of my parents worked full time. I was one of those kids who watched -no kidding- probably 15 hours of TV a day. I was home alone with nothing else to do. We got 3 channels, so I spent the summer watching mostly the Watergate Hearings. :rolleyes:

[Aubergine]

Chill out. Don't take this thing so seriously. It is just for fun. It isn't a test of intelligence or anything. Just pure fun. If you don't care about the results, stop posting on this thread. This quiz is just for fun.


whoa, kiddo, sounds like you really need the chill pill. you appear to be far more bent out of shape by my reply than i was by the so-called "test." to me, this is a completely unprovoked attack. "fun" or not, i spoke truthfully about my reactions to it, including my misgivings and frustrations, and conclusion that it was a trifle. but i never pointed a finger at anyone here. moreover, it was Gumbeaux who found a wrong answer, and he deserves kudos!

one can't help but wonder what your vested interest is in this silly thing...do you (or a relative) work for BBC America? i'm very puzzled as to why you took my reply so personally, out of all of them....something doesn't add up.

otoh, thanks for giving me the perfect incentive to shut down the computer for the night/next day or more. it's things like this that always remind me i'm better off reading the New Yorker, or watching Jon Stewart's Daily Show and the Col-BER report. or mebbe "The Aristocrats.."

try it. sounds like, to paraphrase a famous old film line, you are in desperate need of a good laff.

peace,
suz

[newtricks]

whoa, kiddo, sounds like you really need the chill pill. you appear to be far more bent out of shape by my reply than i was by the so-called "test." to me, this is a completely unprovoked attack. "fun" or not, i spoke truthfully about my reactions to it, including my misgivings and frustrations, and conclusion that it was a trifle. but i never pointed a finger at anyone here. moreover, it was Gumbeaux who found a wrong answer, and he deserves kudos!

one can't help but wonder what your vested interest is in this silly thing...do you (or a relative) work for BBC America? i'm very puzzled as to why you took my reply so personally, out of all of them....something doesn't add up.

otoh, thanks for giving me the perfect incentive to shut down the computer for the night/next day or more. it's things like this that always remind me i'm better off reading the New Yorker, or watching Jon Stewart's Daily Show and the Col-BER report. or mebbe "The Aristocrats.."

try it. sounds like, to paraphrase a famous old film line, you are in desperate need of a good laff.

peace,
suz

Well, you posted a bunch of times about this little quiz so it doesn't seem out of line to think you were a twee bit worked up over it. But, ummmmm, apparently not, certainly not. You're totally fine. Relaxed and mellow even.

[Jewel]

5 out of 11....not so bad considering at age 11 I would have paid more attention to the Watergate scandal if David Cassidy had been one of the special prosecutors. :p

[LaraW]

I got 3/11. Not bad, considering I was a baby - I was born in Sept of 1972. :p

[GingerPow]

8 out of 11 :confused:
I must be a good guesser or the answers were hidden in my subconcious. Frankly, I'm amazed that I had any awareness of what was occuring outside of my own world. I was 15 and just trying to adapt to a new town, make new friends and survive my parents.

[sneezles]

5 out of 11....not so bad considering at age 11 I would have paid more attention to the Watergate scandal if David Cassidy had been one of the special prosecutors. :p


Even at 21 I might have done the same! :p

[Gumbeaux]

These big events that happened in '73 were somehow overlooked by the person that made the test.

1. All warring parties in the Vietnam sign a peace treaty

2. The Yom Kippur War-the largest Arab-Israel conflict begins

3. The Arab oil embargo begins

4. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns

5. The Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade

6. Skylab is launched