1970 Survival Quiz - Navigation Room

Would you have survived the '70s?
(one point each and we won't tell anyone!)

NO CHEATING! NO INTERNET IN 1970

1) smoking area in high school
2) Vietnam draft at 18, but could not vote till 21
3) watched sci-fi on TV or movies
4) hot pants, miniskirts and birth control
5) slide rules at school or work
6) mechanical calculator for addition/subtraction
7) used a mini computer with punch cards/paper tape
8) physical encyclopedias and huge dictionaries
9) used a card catalogs with the Dewey Decimal system in libraries
10) legal to ride in the back of a pickup without restraints
11) typing classes, home economics and shop classes (wood, metal, drafting)
12) transistor radios and tape decks
13) "organic" food as response to pesticides
14) worked in a fast food restaurant as a first job
15) used a manual transmission in a car
16) B&W TVs at standard def
17) been backpacking and camping
18) ran slot cars and rented time on larger tracks
19) used a black and white film camera and kept images in an album
20) saw the first moon landing live on TV
21) bought a house for less than $25,000
22) luggage had wheels
23) served actual meals on airplanes
24) fallout shelters and bomb drills (as in WWIII, not crazy people)
25) ash trays in cars, planes, restaurants
26) used a film camera with flashcubes
27) had to lick stamps to mail a letter
28) sting ray bikes and paper routes at age 12 or above
29) pledge of allegiance every morning in school
30) watched movies in school using a 16mm projector
31) can read and write in full handwritten cursive script
32) used a rotary phones to dial long distance (expensive)
33) navigated by charts, compasses, etc. (slide rules helped)
34) used leaded gas and lead in paint
35) equal time for anti-smoking advertisements
36) used old grocery bags to make book covers

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0-12 Stick to the 21st century PLEASE 13-24 Just might have survived in the 20th century 25-36 Might have survived in the '70s, w/ help . . .

We complain that others don't know how to do anything from our time period. This could be said of all of us if we went back to emerging tech California.

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