Q 01/05

Which puzzle toy did a Hungarian architecture professor first build by hand from blocks of wood in 1974?

A) Connect Four

B) Mastermind

C) Rubik's Cube

D) Etch A Sketch

Answer · why

C) Rubik's Cube

Rubik's Cube took its own inventor about a month to solve after he first scrambled it, and it was sold as the Magic Cube until it was renamed after hi...

Q 02/05

Which archaeological treasure did farmers digging a well near Xi'an, China, uncover by accident in March 1974?

A) The Terracotta Army

B) The Peking Man fossils

C) The Jade Burial Suits

D) The Ming Tombs

Answer · why

A) The Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army dates from the late 200s BCE and lay about 1.5 km east of the tomb mound of the Qin emperor it was made to guard.

Q 03/05

What name did scientists give the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974, after a Beatles song?

A) Julia

B) Lucy

C) Martha

D) Michelle

Answer · why

B) Lucy

Lucy got her name because Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds played over and over on a tape recorder in camp while the team celebrated the find that evenin...

Q 04/05

Which product became the first item ever scanned with a UPC barcode, at an Ohio supermarket in June 1974?

A) Campbell's tomato soup

B) Heinz tomato ketchup

C) Kellogg's Corn Flakes

D) Wrigley's chewing gum

Answer · why

D) Wrigley's chewing gum

Wrigley's chewing gum made retail history at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, when a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit crossed the scanner at a Marsh supermarket in the tow...

Q 05/05

Who became US president in August 1974 without ever being elected either president or vice president?

A) Nelson Rockefeller

B) Gerald Ford

C) Spiro Agnew

D) Hubert Humphrey

Answer · why

B) Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford had been appointed vice president only eight months earlier, when Spiro Agnew resigned, and he remains the only president never elected to...