1977 Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
The world's first personal all-in-one
computer
(keyboard/screen/tape storage), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the what?
A: Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago
The Australian state of Queensland abolishes what?
A: The inheritance tax.
Apple Computer is what?
A: Incorporated.
Record company EMI sacks what controversial United Kingdom
punk rock group?
A: The Sex Pistols.
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the
cause of what mysterious disease?
A: Legionnaires' disease.
Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near
Sydney, leaves how many people dead?
A: 83 people.
Jimmy Carter succeeds who as the 39th President of the
United States.?
A: Gerald Ford.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons who?
A: Vietnam War draft evaders.
Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on what TV
network?
A: ABC.
What Fleetwood Mac Grammy-winning album is released?
A: Rumours.
The rings of what planet are discovered?
A: Uranus.
A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife,
Canary Islands, kills how many people?
A: 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.
Marquette University wins the men's NCAA basketball
tournament with a win over what university?
A: The University of North Carolina 67-59.
Who do the Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of
baseball against?
A: The Chicago White Sox.
The Seattle Mariners play their first-ever game of baseball
against what team?
A: The California Angels.
Optical fiber is first used to carry what?
A: Live telephone traffic.
Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an
indoor solo attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when how many people attend a
concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour?
A: 76,229.
The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in how many
deaths?
A: 34.
The Portland Trail Blazers defeat what team 109–107 to win
the National Basketball Association finals four games to two?
A: Philadelphia 76ers.
James Earl Ray escapes from where?
A: Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros,
Tennessee.
What country has its first democratic
elections, after 41
years under the Franco regime?
A: Spain.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the states are not
required to spend Medicaid funds on what?
A: Elective abortions.
Some 200,000 protesters march through the streets of
San
Francisco, protesting what?
A: Anita Bryant's anti-gay remarks and the
murder of Robert Hillsborough.
Djibouti receives its independence from what country?
A: France.
The Women Marines are what?
A: Disbanded, and the women are integrated into regular
Marine Corps.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces the cancellation of
what program?
A: The B-1 Bomber program.
The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for how long?
A: 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.
Where does Led Zeppelin present its last American concert?
A: In Oakland, California, at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
The first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
reaches where?
A: Valdez, Alaska.
What happens to Elvis Presley?
A: He dies.
President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating what?
A: The United States Department of Energy.
What Japanese volcano erupts?
A: Mount Usu.
David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after
what?
A: Over a year of murders in New York City as the Son of Sam.
The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface
ship to do what?
A: Reach the North Pole.
Groucho Marx, comedic legend, star of stage and screen,
dies of what?
A: Pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles, at the age of 86.
The United States launches what spacecraft?
A: The Voyager 2 spacecraft.
A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries,
including who?
A: The United States and the Soviet Union.
What automobile debuts at the Geneva Motor Show?
A: The Porsche 928.
The modern Food Stamp Program begins when what is enacted?
A: The Food Stamp Act of 1977.