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100
This CBS show, which aired on Saturday nights, followed the life of a young single woman who worked at a TV station in Minneapolis:
A. Maude
B. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
C. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
D. As The World Turns
C. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
100
In this movie, a 25 foot great white shark terrorizes the beach community of Amity Island. The police chief, a marine biologist, and a grizzled ship captain named Quint hunt it down:
A. Sharknado
B. Open Water
C. Great White
D. Jaws
D. Jaws
100
This Don McLean song, released in 1971, is an 8 minute and 42 second reflection on the loss of innocence in American music and culture in the 1950s and 1960s:
A. American Pie
B. Paradise Lost
C. Just Me and Bobby McGee
D. Cruel Summer
A. American Pie
100
This thoroughbred horse, standing 16.2 hands high and having a shiny chestnut coat, won horse racing's triple crown in 1973. He was on the cover of Time Magazine and referred to as Super Horse:
A. Man O' War
B. Secretariat
C. Seabiscuit
D. Mr. Ed
B. Secretariat
200
This CBS program, which was both a comedy and a drama, ran for 11 seasons. It portrayed the lives of the medical staff at a surgical hospital during the Korean War:
A. Emergency
B. Medical Center
C. Marcus Welby, MD
D. M*A*S*H
D. M*A*S*H
200
This crime drama about the powerful Corleone family and the transformation of the youngest son into a ruthless Mafia boss was nominated for 11 Oscars:
A. Goodfellas
B. Casino
C. The Godfather
D. Scarface
C. The Godfather
200
This 1970 Simon and Garfunkel song offers comfort, friendship, and spiritual healing to someone going through hardship, loneliness, or pain:
A. Mrs. Robinson
B. Bridge Over Troubled Water
C. The Sound of Silence
D. Look for America
B. Bridge Over Troubled Waters
200
This team completed the only undefeated NFL season in the modern-era (17-0), culminating in a 14-7 victory over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII:
A. The Miami Dolphins
B. The Dallas Cowboys
C. The Pittsburgh Steelers
D. The Oakland Raiders
A. The Miami Dolphins
300
This NBC show, which aired on Monday nights, followed the lives of the Ingalls family in the 19th century as they settled in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove:
A. Family
B. Little House on the Prairie
C. The Waltons
D. Columbo
B. Little House on the Prairie
300
This 1973 film stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as small-time hustlers teaming up to pull off the ultimate scam:
A. The Sting
B. Oceans 11
C. The Usual Suspects
D. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
A. The Sting
300
This 1977 hit by Debby Boone was the biggest hit single of the decade. It stayed at #1 for ten weeks in a row:
A. Close To You
B. Memories
C. You Light Up My Life
D. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
C. You Light Up My Life
300
In this Olympic Games, Mark Spitz won a then-record seven gold medals, in swimming. Unfortunately, this Olympic Games will forever be remembered for the terrorist attack against the Israeli athletes:
A. The 1960 Rome Games
B. The 1964 Tokyo Games
C. The 1968 Mexico City Games
D. The 1972 Munich Games
D. The 1972 Munich Games
400
This ABC sitcom was set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It offered a nostalgic view of America during the 1950s with a specific focus on the members of the Cunningham family and their friends:
A. Happy Days
B. Good Times
C. The Partridge Family
D. The Simpsons
A. Happy Days
400
An aging, luckless, ex-minor league pitcher coaches a team of misfits in an ultra competitive California little league:
A. Mr. Baseball
B. The Bad News Bears
C. Sliding into Home
D. The Sandlot
B. The Bad News Bears
400
This band wrote and performed the disco song "Stayin' Alive." It was specifically written for the movie "Saturday Night Fever":
A. Grand Funk Railroad
B. The Village People
C. KC and the Sunshine Band
D. The Bee Gees
D. The Bee Gees
400
This 1974 heavy weight title fight between current champion George Foreman and previous champion Muhammed Ali took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fight was billed as:
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. The Fight of the Century
C. The Rumble in the Jungle
D. Once and For All
C. The Rumble in the Jungle
500
This late night comedy sketch show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975. It had such memorable skits as The Festrunk Brothers (Two Wild and Crazy Guys), Rosanne Roseannadanna, The Blues Brothers, and Weekend Update:
A. The Carol Burnett Show
B. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
C. Saturday Night Live
D. Monty Python's Flying Circus
C. Saturday Night Live
500
This 1970 film stars Ryan O'Neal as a Harvard Law student and Ali MacGraw as a working-class music student at Radcliffe who fall in love and marry in spite of the strong objections of his wealthy and emotionally cold father:
A. Smokey and the Bandit
B. Splendor in the Grass
C. Barefoot in the Park
D. Love Story
D. Love Story
500
The 1978 hit "I Will Survive" was written by a songwriter who had just been fired from Motown Records, and it was sung by this woman while in a back brace after just having had emergency spinal surgery:
A. Gloria Gaynor
B. Diana Ross
C. Aretha Franklin
D. Tina Turner
A. Gloria Gaynor
500
On April 8, 1974, this slugger hit his 715th career home run, off of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing, breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing major league baseball record:
A. Reggie Jackson
B. Hank Aaron
C. Willie Mays
D. Pete Rose
B. Hank Aaron
