History
Until this was passes in 1974, married women cannot apply for a credit card or mortgage- even if she was the sole owner, without her husbands signature.
What is the Equal Credit Opportunity Act?
Before settling on their iconic name, this group performed under the name Johnny and the Moondogs.
Who are the Beatles?
Physicist Theodore Maiman operated the very first functional this Using a synthetic ruby crystal.
What is a laser?
Richard Rogers wrote “I have Confidence” by himself, for this musical because Oscar Hammerstein II had passed away.
What is the Sound of Music?
These baby gear offered zero structural protection.
What are baby car seats?
What was the first computer mouse made out of this?
What was wood?
invented by Douglas Engelbert in 1964 and patented in 1970, the first computer mouse was a literal wooden block with two metal wheels on the bottom and a single red button on top.
While heavy metal erupted later, this group earned a bizarre global record by becoming the first and only band to perform on all seven continents.
Who is Metallica?
They played a show in Antarctica in 2013.
Meteorologist Edward Lorenzo coined the term this after finding that tiny, invisible variations in data for weather computer models caused massive, unpredictable changes in long-term outcomes.
What is the butterfly effect?
Flora, the Red Menace bribed the crowd with this due to the audience members leaving during intermission, as the show was struggling badly.
What is Salami?
Parents used this as a common antiseptic.
What is mercury?
In January 1961, this 3-year-old this named Ham was launched into suborbital space aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket to test capsule systems.
What was a chimpanzee?
He successfully performed his tasks and returned safely, paving the way for Alan Shepard‘s human flight a few months later.
In 1974, Carl Douglas recorded this song in just ten minutes As a quick throwaway B-side for a completely different single.
What was “Kung Fu Fighting”?
The producer thought the primary track was a guaranteed hit, but the martial arts anthem went on to sell over 11 million copies worldwide and hit number one.
Steven Hawking started to come out with these theories?
What are Black Hole Theories?
Before she became a global pop superstar, Diane Keaton was an original cast member of this musical?
What is Hair?
This was found in in hairdryers.
What is asbestos?
This was the craze in 1975. An advertising executive named Gary Dahl joked about how easy it was to care for a pet.
What is the Great Pet Rock Craze?
It came with a 47-page training manual. Dahl sold over 1.5 million at $4 each, in just a few months.
In 1968, this bands front man, Doug Ingle drank a gallon of wine before attempting to record a slow country ballad, “In the Garden of Eden”.
Who was Iron Butterfly?
Doug was slurring his words so badly that the drummer wrote the title down phonetically on a napkin as “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”. It became their only Top 40 hit and an accidental heavy rock classic.
Chemist Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont invented this , a liquid crystal polymer solution that turned into an ultra-strong fiber.
What is Kevlar?
This Musical was almost a silent movie musical.
What was Chicago?
Sunbathers mixed baby oil with this to accelerate tanning.
What is iodine?
This craze from the 1970s resulted in millions of gallons of indoor water sloshing around apartments.
What is the Waterbed Craze?
A queen size weighed 1500 lbs, which made older apartment floors sag, warp, or even collapse straight through the ceiling of the room below.
This song and band reached Billboard Number One Song of the Year in1969 with this bubblegum pop classic.
Who was The Archie’s, “Sugar, Sugar”?
Biologists exploring Galapagos Rift discovered this: an ecosystem that didn’t rely on the sun to live.
What is chemosynthesis?
Before Lloyd Weber saw this production, it’s actually had opera arias set to a heavy disco beat.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the very first this in 1971.
What is the email?