Potpourri
This popular 70's textile had long fibers and was used to cover everything from floors to van interiors
What is shag carpet?
Launched in 1972, this is TV's longest running game show-- it still runs every day!
What is The Price is Right?
This group became a household name for their song celebrating the benefits of services offered by the Young Mens' Christian Association
What is The Village People?
This scandal rocked the office of the United States Presidency in 1974
What is Watergate?
These pants, inspired by those typical of Navy uniforms at the time, were considered the height of fashion in the 70s
What are bellbottoms?
This inanimate, googley-eyed "pet" reached peak popularity during the 70s
What is the pet rock?
This show featured two young women who shared an apartment and worked in a bottling factory
What is Laverne & Shirley?
This sound system required the use of large rectangular tape cartridges.
What is 8 track?
More than 1,000,000 of these household grooming appliances were sold in the US in 1975
What is a Hair Dryer?
This "showy" style of shoe, sometimes adorned with glitter or lights, was used to attract attention on disco dance floors
What are Platform Shoes?
Launched in 1971, this educational game features a group of people traveling West, with many often dying of dysentery
What is the Oregon Trail?
This 1970s TV series gave us the common phrase "jump the shark," meaning for a show to have outlived its best episodes.
What is Happy Days?
Even though he died tragically in 1977, this singer remains the best selling musical artist of all time.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The Sears Tower became the world's tallest building in 1974 when it was erected in what US city?
What is Chicago?
This universally flattering dress style gained popularity in the 70s because the modern woman could wear it to the office and then to the disco in the evening.
The wrap dress.
During the 70s, packets of this underwater species were sold as aquarium novelties called Sea-Monkeys
What are Brine Shrimp?
This scary movie from 1973 was famously responsible for theater patrons vomiting and fainting in the aisles.
What is The Exorcist?
The Bee Gees hit "Stayin' Alive" served the top single for this movie's soundtrack
What is Saturday Night Fever?
This cult, which would go on to found the notorious "Jonestown" settlement, held some of its earliest services in what is now Gateway High School's auditorium.
What is The Peoples Temple?
This hairstyle first arrived on the scene in the late 70s thanks to the popularity of bands like the Sex Pistols
What is a Mohawk?
This toy brand debuted in 1970, but it would be another 20 years before it released its famous "Sharpshooter" toy.
What is NERF?
This movie was the highest grossing film of the 1970s.
What is Star Wars (A New Hope)?
This artist had 36 songs chart on Billboard's Hot 100 from 1970-1979 -- the most of any artist that decade -- but none of them cracked the Top 10.
Who is James Brown?
This crucial natural resource "peaked" in 1973 and 1979, causing a crisis that had a major effect on virtually all world economies
What is oil?
This material was invented in 1958 to make women's girdles more comfortable, but became a mainstay of both men's and women's disco fashion in the 70s -- think short shorts and really tight pants.
What is Spandex?