A to Z by Decade: 1970s - Statistics

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Letter	Clue	Answer	% Correct
A	Country invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979	Afghanistan	100%
B	1975 rock ballad by Queen	Bohemian Rhapsody	95%
P	Brazilian soccer legend who led Brazil to its third World Cup victory	Pelé	95%
Q	State of Australia which saw massive shifts in infrastructure, natural disasters, and turbulence, and the nearly 20 year political dominance of Joh Bjelke-Petersen	Queensland	95%
S	1977 sci-fi classic released by George Lucas	Star Wars	95%
M	Tech company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen	Microsoft	90%
W	Scandal which led to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon	Watergate Scandal	90%
N	Region which saw violence between Protestants and Catholics in a period known as the Troubles	Northern Ireland	86%
O	Crisis over this resource saw prices quadruple in the United States and other countries due to an embargo	Oil	86%
U	Country which celebrated its bicentennial anniversary in 1976	United States of America	81%
E	Holiday first celebrated in 1970 to raise awareness for the environment	Earth Day	76%
Y	Wife of John Lennon who was accused of breaking up the Beatles	Yoko Ono	76%
L	Country which had over 2 million tons of bombs dropped onto it by the United States	Laos	71%
V	Iconic vehicle driven by hippies which became a symbol of 60s and 70s counterculture	Volkswagen Van	71%
D	US president Richard Nixon declared a “war” on these	Drugs	67%
J	Host of The Tonight Show regarded as the king of late-night television	Johnny Carson	67%
C	Stephen King’s first novel, written in 1974, which became a classic and was adapted to film two years later	Carrie	62%
Z	Country in which Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman for the undisputed heavyweight title in the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle	Zaire	62%
T	Site of an infamous 1979 nuclear accident in Pennsylvania	Three Mile Island	57%
K	Communist regime which killed a quarter of Cambodia’s population in a brutal genocide	Khmer Rouge	52%
R	1973 decision by the United States Supreme Court which protected abortion as a constitutional right	Roe v. Wade	52%
F	Event which ended the Vietnam War	Fall of Saigon	33%
G	Former Alabama governor and presidential candidate shot and paralyzed in a 1972 assassination attempt	George Wallace	29%
H	Trail spanning across Europe, the Middle East, and India which many backpacked across from the 1950s to the 1970s	Hippie Trail	29%
I	Event which saw 66 Americans taken captive in 1979, with the majority held until the start of Reagan’s presidency in 1981	Iran Hostage Crisis	29%
X	Ship flown in S, named for its iconic shape	X-wing Starfighter	24%

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