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Now valued at more than $4 trillion, this tech company was founded on April 1, 1976.
What is Apple Computer Company (Apple, inc)?
This top-rated sitcom of the 1976-77 season was set in 1950s Milwaukee and followed teenager Richie Cunningham and his family?
What is Happy Days?
This band's 1976 album release titled "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" was the first album to go platinum. Among its tracks are "Desperado" and "Best of my Love".
Who were The Eagles?
This incumbent president lost the presidential election of 1976 to Jimmy Carter.
Who is Gerald Ford?
On March 26, 1976 this monarch sent out the first royal email on a network called ARPANET, which was a precursor to the Internet as we know it today.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II.
This NASA program sent two identical probes to Mars with the first landing on July 20, 1976 and the second on September 3, 1976.
What was the Viking Program?
This game show hosted by Richard Dawson debuted in 1976 on ABC.
What is Family Feud?
"Cotton's Dream" which, following the Montreal Olympics in 1976, became better known as "Nadia's Theme" has also been used as the theme music for this popular soap opera since its debut in 1973.
What is The Young and the Restless?
Following the passage of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, this government-funded private corporation was formed. It began operations on April 1, 1976, consolidating eight bankrupt rail carriers.
What is Conrail?
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1976, this symbol of American freedom was moved about 600 feet from Independence Hall to a new, glass-and-steel pavilion on Independence Mall.
What is the Liberty Bell?
JVC released this home video format, initiating the "format war" with Sony's Betamax.
What is VHS?
This British series created by Jim Henson premiered in 1976.
What is The Muppet Show?
This song from ABBA's fourth studio album "Arrival", was released as a single in August 1976 and became the band's only #1 hit in the United States.
What is "Dancing Queen"?
As part of the bicentennial celebration of 1976, this Founding Father was posthumously promoted to the rank of six-star general.
Who is George Washington?
This food dye banned by the FDA after cancer concerns, causing red M&Ms to disappear from packages until 1987 although the candy never contained the substance.
What is Red Dye No. 2
Named for its designer, this was the first commerically successful supercomputer. Its first unit was installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976.
What is the Cray-1?
This film, based on the book by Margaret Mitchell, became the highest rated program ever aired on a single network when in debuted in November 1976--until the following January when its success was surpassed by Roots.
What is Gone with the Wind?
This song by Paul McCartney and Wings, was written as a rebuttal to music critics (and his former Beatles bandmate, John Lennon) who had criticized McCartney for writing lightweight love songs. It hit #1 in the year-end charts in 1976.
What is "Silly Love Songs"?
On July 8, 1976 Richard Nixon became the first (and only) former US president to be officially disbarred from the practice of law in this state.
What is New York?
This series of 20th-century confrontations between Iceland and the United Kingdom about fishing rights in the North Atlantic around Iceland which escalated in 1976 to Iceland threatening withdrawal from NATO.
What are the Cod Wars (or Coastal Wars)?
Released in 1976, this was the first home video gaming console to use interchangeable ROM catridges. The F at the end of its name stands for "fun".
What is the Fairchild Channel F?
These short segments aired during primetime television starting July 4, 1974 through December 31, 1976, each began with the words "Two hundred years ago today..." and end with "...and that's the way it was."
What were Bicentennial Minutes?
This musical variety show hosted by a brother-and-sister pop duo ran on ABC from January 1976 to May 1979.
What is "Donnie and Marie?"
This running mate of Jimmy Carter was a Minnesota senator who helped secure the Democratic ticket.
Who is Walter Mondale?
The first flights of this supersonic airliner took place on January 21, 1976 taking off from London and Paris. It famously cut trasnatlantic flight times in half.
What was the Concorde?