1981
It was the beginning of a new era. Good? Bad? Indifferent? You tell me...
Quiz created by: Bill Graves
1. Which team won Super Bowl XV?
(#) San Francisco 49'ers
(#) Oakland Raiders
(#) Los Angeles Raiders
(#) Philadelphia Eagles
2. A sports stampede and earthquake hit one city in the same month. Name the city.
(#) Los Angeles
(#) London
(#) Rio de Janeiro
(#) Athens
3. Which news anchor signed off for the last time?
(#) Mike Wallace
(#) Herb Caen
(#) Edward R. Murrow
(#) Walter Cronkite
4. Which rock band broke up, only to reunite in 1983?
(#) Queen
(#) Genesis
(#) Van Halen
(#) Yes
5. François Mitterrand became president of which nation?
(#) Switzerland
(#) France
(#) Canada
(#) Belgium
6. The CDCP report a rare form of Pneumonia. Name the disease eventually identified from this.
(#) Rubella
(#) Herpes
(#) Lymphoma
(#) AIDS
7. What was the marriage of the year?
(#) Luke & Laura
(#) Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki
(#) Diana & Charles
(#) Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson
8. Who was appointed the first U. S. Supreme Court Justice?
(#) Ruth Ginsberg
(#) Rose Bird
(#) Sandra Day O'Connor
(#) Ruth Westheimer
9. Who had a concert in New York's Central Park for about half a million people?
(#) Simon & Garfunkel
(#) Billy Joel
(#) Bruce Springsteen
(#) The Rolling Stones
10. Which world leader was assassinated?
(#) Anwar Sadat
(#) Pope John Paul II
(#) Ronald Reagan
(#) Hosni Mubarak
11. Reagan gave the CIA the authority to recruit and support who?
(#) The Sandinistas
(#) The Contras
(#) Che Guevara and his followers
(#) Al Qaeda
12. Who is Elizabeth Jordan Carr?
(#) The first female recipient of an artificial heart
(#) The first woman in space
(#) The first test-tube baby
(#) The first recipient of a sex-change operation.
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