Daily Cuppa and Quiz: June 10, 2023

#OnThisDay - In 1922, Judy Garland was born in Minnesota

In the decade where we saw strikes of postal workers, miners and dustmen, where we rode choppers, wore bell bottoms and listened to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody... let's take a trip down memory lane to the 70s.

1. Which animated series first aired in 1974 and told the story of the rivalry between a green dog and a pink cat?
2. Which 1978 shoot ‘em up arcade game was developed by Tomohiro?
3. What did ‘Tiswas’ stand for?
4. What was the name of the jester in ‘Rentaghost’?
5. In which year of the 70s was ‘Jaws’ released?
6. What were the first names of Starsky and Hutch?
7. Which comedian and presenter replaced Bruce Forsyth as presenter of ‘The Generation Game’ in 1978?
8. Which toy had a man’s name and consisted of 4 coloured sections, the aim being to remember in which order the colours flashed?
9. In which year was decimal currency introduced in the United Kingdom?
10. The winter overlapping which two years was popularly known as ‘The Winter Of Discontent’, due to widespread action by trade unions demanding large pay rises?
11. In which country were the 1976 summer olympics held?
12. What did M*A*S*H stand fo in the 1972 programme of the same name?
13. Which 1972 TV series was based on the book ‘Spencer’s Mountain’ by Earl Hamner Jnr?
14. Which band released an album in 1970, regarded as the first true heavy metal album?
15. Louise Brown, the first child to be born to IVF was born on 25 July in Oldham - in what year?
16. The first £1m fee for a footballer was paid in 1979 by which club? Bonus point awarded if you can name the player!
17. Which bank merged with the National Provincial Bank in 1970 to form the NatWest?
18. Who became ITN's first female news reader in 1978?
19. Red Rum completed his hat trick of Grand National victories in which year?
20. Which popular game included a frying pan, rope and stick of dynamite?

Answers for June 9:
Questions: 1.Complete the title of the 2000 Backstreet Boys hit "Show me the meaning of being....."? On My Own, Lonely, Alone, Sad 2.In British politics, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from November 1990 to May 1993? 3.The Straddle Technique was a style performed in which athletics event? 4.A clarion was the mediaeval version of which modern day musical instrument? 5.Which monarch won the Battle of the Boyne in 1690? 6.In the Jewish calendar, what is the third month of the religious year called? 7.Which G means to reduce to small shreds, and is the recess of a fireplace? 8.Which children's playground game is sometimes called 'Fivestones', 'Knucklebones' or 'Snobs'? 9.What is the basic monetary unit of Israel? 10.What is the name of the chief muscle used in breathing? Node, Diaphragm, Thorax, Abdomen
Answers: 1.Lonely 2.Norman Lamont 3.High Jump 4.Trumpet 5.William III of Orange 6.Sivan 7.Grate 8.Jacks 9.Shekel 10.Diaphragm

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