AARP Right Again! Trivia Contest 2021

[AARPTeri]

Do you love trivia?  Who doesn’t? Trivia games aren’t just fun – they also test your knowledge and help you learn new things! 

In our new AARP Online Community Right Again! Trivia Contest we’re looking for the best 70’s and 80’s Pop Culture Trivia from our community members like you. We’re talking music, movies, TV, fashion, dance crazes, games … even food.  To be entered in the contest, share your ideas for questions and answers and you’ll get a chance to win one of five (5) $50 VISA gift cards along with 50 AARP Rewards Points.  A panel of judges appointed by AARP will select the top five trivia question winners, which may be selected for use in AARP’s new Right Again! Trivia game, coming soon.

Contest Details

Reply to this discussion to share your 70’s and 80’s Pop Culture trivia question. Entries are accepted from Monday, September 6 until midnight September 25, 2021. Official Rules here. 

[MitchellD789594]

What notorious 5-word sentence did astronaut Jack Swigert say and astronaut Jim Lovell repeat to space center Houston during the April 1970, Apollo 13 mission?

[Merrill58]

Houston, we have a problem.

[l124289r]

On weekend mornings, what group was "Doin' it, doin' it" in animation and as people in costumes?

[MitchellD789594]

What did Bond girl Tiffany Case say to James Bond in the last line of the 1971 movie "Diamonds Are Forever"? 

[l124289r]

What color H.R. Pufnstuf? 

[l124289r]

What was the Grandfather's name in "The Doris Day Show"?

[l124289r]

In what did the 5th Dimension invite us to go "Up, Up, and Away"?

[SylviaM123359]

ballon

[sd1208]

The 7th house

[l124289r]

How many children were born to Olivia and John Walton?

[l124289r]

Donny Osmond

[l124289r]

In the 1970's, who sang the re-release of "Deep Purple"?

[l124289r]

Lieutenant

[l124289r]

In the original Star Trek series, what was Uhura's rank?

[l124289r]

cartoonist, James Thurber

[l124289r]

What was the narrator's profession in the TV series "My World and Welcome to It?"

What real author was the series based on?

[l124289r]

"She'll be risin'."

[l124289r]

According to Glen Campbell, what will she be doing "By the TIme I Get to Phoenix"?

[l124289r]

Flip Wilson's alter-ego

[l124289r]

Who was the character "Geraldine" on a TV variety show?

[l124289r]

On the TV show "Hee Haw," who were the main characters singing "Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me"?

[peichensehr]

Buck Owens ad Roy Clark

[l124289r]

In 1988, what Assemblies of God TV minister reported to Springfield, Missouri headquarters to be defrocked?

[l124289r]

In the 1973 chart topper, why did Tony Orlando ask his love to "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"?

[MikeT1954]

Was his old girlfriend waiting for him - “it’s been 3 long years, do you still want me?”

[l124289r]

Why was Eddie's Father involved in Courtship, 1969-1972?

[l124289r]

What was the other name for short shorts, especially worn with an open or closed skirt?

[MikeT1954]

Hot pants?

”open or closed” skirt? Doesn’t that mean any skirt?

[l124289r]

What sibling did Lucy and Linus get in 1972?

[l124289r]

What did Wayne Newton sing that his daughter cried when he tried to leave their family?