June Quiz - Answers

Larry and Mindy’s Quiz – June 2025

Here are the correct answers:

1. d. Rocks
Sold in a ventilated carrying case and accompanied with care instructions, the Pet Rock made millions within months of its 1975 release. Soon after that year’s holiday season, however, the fad began to fade.

2. a. Billie Jean King
An outspoken critic of women’s tennis, Bobby Riggs challenged top-ranking star Margaret Court to an exhibition match on Mother’s Day 1973. He won in straight sets and followed up with a challenge to Billie Jean King. The ensuing “Battle of the Sexes” was the most-watched tennis match of all time, with an estimated 90 million people tuning in to watch King defeat Riggs in straight sets.

3. d. Apple
Steve Wozniak had been an engineering intern at Hewlett-Packard Company, but HP did not share his interest in microcomputing. Wozniak teamed up with former schoolmate Steve Jobs to create Apple.

4. b. Deep Throat
The anonymous source was used for “deep background” (meaning statements could not be attributed to them) and was given the nickname Deep Throat, the title of a popular pornographic movie released about the same time. The source remained anonymous until 2005, when Deep Throat was revealed to be then-FBI associate director Mark Felt.

(And by the way, I (Larry) had the honor and pleasure of actually meeting Carl Bernstein! It was back in 1983. I was performing solo background music in the Grill Room at the Carlton Tel Aviv. He was a guest at the hotel. He first saw me in the Grill Room, came up and complimented me. Later that evening, he was in the Lobby bar – I had finished my gig and was about to leave, but he saw me walking out, called me over and invited me to join him for a drink. And since I still had my guitar with me, he asked me to take it out (it was a quiet evening in the bar, just the two of us), and we sat for at least an hour - basically I was giving him a private show, and he joined me singing on some of the songs. It was super fun!)

5. b. “Up your nose with a rubber hose!”
“Kiss my grits!” was a trademark saying on Alice, “You big dummy!” was the preferred put-down of the elder Sanford on Sanford & Son, and “Dy-No-Mite!” frequently boomed through episodes of Good Times.

6. c. Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett’s famous red swimsuit photograph was snapped in 1976. By March 1977 more than five million posters of the image had been sold.

7. b. Bill Murray
When Chevy Chase departed Saturday Night Live during its second season, Bill Murray was brought in to replace him.

8. d. Football player
Village People founders Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali conceived of the eccentrically dressed group one evening when they saw a bartender wearing a Native American headdress (to honor his father) converse with a patron dressed as a cowboy. That bartender, Felipe Rose, was then recruited into the group.

9. a. Peanut business
When Jimmy Carter left office in 1981, the peanut business (which included a farm, warehouse, and store) he had put in a blind trust was one million dollars in debt, and he was forced to sell it.

10. c. The Spiders from Mars
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars helped define the 1970s glam era.

11. d. Jaws
Widely considered to be the first summer blockbuster, Jaws was one of the first films to advertise using television commercials.

12. b. Roots
A television miniseries following multiple generations of enslaved people in the United States, Roots was aired in its entirety over the course of eight consecutive nights. More people tuned in to the Roots finale than the 1977 Super Bowl. Only the 1980 “Who shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas and the 1984 M*A*S*H finale have topped its rating.

13. c. Pong
While not the first video game ever made, Pong is widely recognized as the title that launched the popularity of video gaming.

14. d. Inflation
Hoping to unite the American public against the common foe of inflation, the Ford administration employed a Madison Avenue ad company to come up with WIN, short for Whip Inflation Now. They also hired The Music Man composer Meredith Willson to write a song about inflation. Despite countless WIN buttons and a catchy tune, the lack of significant policy change meant inflation continued into the 1980s.

15. b. Saturday Night Fever
Disco’s popularity was beginning to wane when Saturday Night Fever brought it strutting and hustling back onto America’s dance floors. The soundtrack sold a record-breaking 25 million copies between 1977 and 1980. The only other film soundtracks to win album of the year Grammys were The Bodyguard and O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

16. b. George Foreman
Muhammad Ali’s boxing license was revoked in 1967 for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War, stripping him of his championship. He was reinstated in 1970 and earned a title shot against the heavily favored champ George Foreman four years later.

17. c. Odd or even license plate number
When OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) disrupted the United States’ oil supply in 1973, and again in 1979 amid turmoil in the Persian Gulf, shortages meant American drivers in many areas were only allowed to buy gasoline every other day, according to whether their license plate ended in an even or odd number.

18. d. Table tennis
While America’s team was in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, their Chinese counterparts surprised them with an invite to their homeland, which had been closed off to the U.S. since 1949. This “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” laid the groundwork for Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China three months later.

19. d. Saigon
The U.S. had mostly withdrawn from Vietnam following the 1973 Paris Peace Accords but continued to provide military aid to South Vietnam. Sensing that the U.S. was unlikely to intervene again in the area, North Vietnam encroached further into the South, eventually taking the capital, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Helicopters evacuated 7,000 U.S.-friendly personnel.

20.

1) Rolling Stones Band - 1962

2) Like a Rolling Stone (song by Bob Dylan) - 1965

3) Rolling Stone Magazine - 1967

4) Papa was a Rolling Stone (song made famous by The Temptations, but first recorded by The Undisputed Truth, a Motown recording act. Both recordings were released the same year) - 1972