Results: Celebrating The Big 50 This Year
Published on 01/29/2020
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1.
All these books came out in the year 1970, 50 years ago. Are any on this list among your favourite books?
The Bluest Eye -- Toni Morrison
4%
79 votes
Play It as It Lays -- Joan Didion
2%
45 votes
Love Story -- Erich Segal
16%
368 votes
The Tombs of Atuan -- Ursula K. Le Guin
3%
59 votes
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -- Judy Blume
13%
289 votes
Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Richard Bach
10%
230 votes
Fantastic Mr. Fox -- Roald Dahl
4%
90 votes
Deliverance -- James Dickey
8%
179 votes
Like all of them
3%
62 votes
None
47%
1058 votes
Don't read
13%
289 votes
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? -- Dr. Seuss
6%
146 votes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West -- Dee Brown
6%
142 votes
The Trumpet of the Swan -- E.B. White
4%
82 votes
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2.
All these movies also came out in 1970. How many on this list have you seen?
Patton
31%
700 votes
MASH
46%
1039 votes
Five Easy Pieces
18%
411 votes
The Aristocats
23%
509 votes
Kelly's Heroes
21%
483 votes
The Out-of-Towners
16%
371 votes
Little Big Man
22%
490 votes
Airport
40%
903 votes
Love Story
41%
921 votes
Catch-22
21%
473 votes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
33%
741 votes
I've seen all of them
5%
123 votes
None
21%
469 votes
Never watch movies
5%
122 votes
3.
3.
Here are some historical events that happened in the 1970s. Are there any events on this list that you find hard to believe happened 50 years ago?
Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, USA are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia (May 4)
27%
606 votes
October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group (October 10)
13%
283 votes
The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S. (April 22)
15%
329 votes
An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis (Sept 1)
8%
185 votes
The "Chicago 7"—a group of seven young political protesters—were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention (February 18)
13%
287 votes
I find it hard to believe they are all 50 years old
16%
359 votes
None are hard to believe happened 50 years ago
23%
526 votes
Not familiar with any of these
28%
629 votes
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4.
These were some of the biggest pop culture events that took place in 1970. How many are you surprised to learn happened 50 years ago?
The Beatles break up. By the end of the year, each member had released a solo album.
30%
668 votes
Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both die drug-related deaths at age 27.
27%
606 votes
Monday Night Football debuts on ABC, with Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, and Don Meredith giving play-by-play.
18%
406 votes
IBM introduces the floppy disk.
21%
465 votes
Lithium is approved by the FDA for the treatment of manic-depression.
11%
237 votes
All of these surprise me
10%
216 votes
None surprise me
31%
698 votes
Don't remember any of these events
18%
403 votes
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