1970s Pop Culture
This iconic 1977 movie featured disco dancing, white suits, and a soundtrack dominated by the Bee Gees.
What is Saturday Night Fever?
This 1981 arcade game introduced players to Mario, who originally went by the name “Jumpman.”
What is Donkey Kong?
Known as the “King of Pop,” he released the song 'The Lady is Mine' in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This 80s crime drama featured detectives Crockett and Tubbs in pastel suits and fast cars.
What is Miami Vice?
In a move that reshaped global relations, this 1972 agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union limited anti-ballistic missile systems to two sites per country.
What is the ABM Treaty?
This children’s television program debuted in 1969 but became a defining part of 70s kid culture. This show famously takes place in an urban environment.
What is Sesame Street?
This 1984 film features the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a ghost-fighting team based in New York City.
What is Ghostbusters?
Their 1976 hit “Hotel California” remains one of the most recognizable rock songs of the decade.
Who are The Eagles?
This 1980s sitcom followed four older women sharing a home in Miami.
What is The Golden Girls?
Ratified in 1971, this constitutional amendment lowered the voting age nationwide—a response partly fueled by youth involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the 26th Amendment?
he phrase “Follow the money” comes from this 1976 political thriller starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
What is All the President’s Men?
This 1982 HBO-launched music television channel dramatically changed how people consumed pop culture.
What is MTV?
This Swedish pop group sang the 1974 song '"My Mama Said".
Who is ABBA?
This 70s sitcom about a Milwaukee family introduced the character Potsie Weber, played by Anson Williams.
What is 'Happy Days'?
This 1978 set of agreements, negotiated at a U.S. presidential retreat, led to peace between Egypt and Israel.
What are the Camp David Accords?
This 1977 miniseries became one of the most-watched TV events in history.
What is Roots?
This 1985 adventure film features a group of kids hunting for pirate treasure to save their homes.
What is The Goonies?
This rock band, famously performed the legendary 1985 Live Aid set at Wembley Stadium, release the song, 'The Show Must Go On'?
Who is Queen?
This 1970s series followed the employees of the fictional WJM newsroom in Minneapolis.
What is The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Launched in 1983, this U.S. defense initiative aimed to develop space-based missile interception systems and was quickly nicknamed after a sci-fi film.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (or “Star Wars”)?
First broadcast in 1975, this comedy show became a launchpad for stars like Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner.
What is Saturday Night Live?
Premiering in 1987, this sitcom starred Dave Coulier as Joey Gladstone, friend of a widowed father raising three daughters.
What is Full House?
This New York punk band, known for songs like “Blitzkrieg Bop,” helped define punk rock in the late 70s.
Who are The Ramones?
This series, starring David Hasselhoff and a talking car named KITT, premiered in 1982.
What is Knight Rider?
In 1975, this European nation held a referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community—four decades before debating a similar issue again.
What is the United Kingdom?