Q 01/05

Which food company financed the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory to promote a new candy bar?

A) Hershey

B) Quaker Oats

C) Kellogg's

D) General Mills

Answer · why

B) Quaker Oats

Quaker Oats had never made a film before, but paid for the picture to launch a Wonka Bar from its Chicago confectionery subsidiary. The movie earned o...

Q 02/05

Which country's 19-year-old 'Baby Doc' became the world's youngest president in April 1971, succeeding his father?

A) Cuba

B) Nicaragua

C) Paraguay

D) Haiti

Answer · why

D) Haiti

Haiti passed from François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier to his son Jean-Claude, the only non-royal leader of a state under the age of 20, who ruled until he fl...

Q 03/05

Which Soviet mission's three cosmonauts died in June 1971 when a valve vented their cabin during re-entry?

A) Voskhod 2

B) Soyuz 1

C) Soyuz 11

D) Vostok 6

Answer · why

C) Soyuz 11

The Soyuz 11 crew remain the only humans to have died in space, above the Kármán line, after a breathing valve jolted open at 168 km and emptied the c...

Q 04/05

Which coffee chain opened its first shop at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971, selling beans rather than drinks?

A) Peet's

B) Caribou

C) Tully's

D) Starbucks

Answer · why

D) Starbucks

Starbucks began as a coffee-bean wholesaler run by three friends, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, and in 1976 the shop moved a short dista...

Q 05/05

Which Sunday-night CBS variety series was cancelled in March 1971 in a purge of programmes advertisers found too old?

A) The Lawrence Welk Show

B) The Red Skelton Show

C) The Ed Sullivan Show

D) The Carol Burnett Show

Answer · why

C) The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show bowed out on 28 March 1971 after 23 years and was replaced in September by the CBS Sunday Night Movie. Its final guests included ...