Pop culture quiz

Men's Fitness, August, 2005 by Jacob Kalish

This year Hollywood is releasing new versions of '70s classics The Bad News Bears. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Longest Yard, The Amityville Horror, and The Dukes of Hazzard. It's enough to make us wonder if we're living in 1975 or 2005, Led Zeppelin reunion tour, anyone?

WHEN DID IT HAPPEN, 1975 OR ZOOS?

1. Millions of Americans are transfixed by a vicious shark.

2. The Lakers are involved in a trade of the most dominant center in basketball.

3. A busty bombshell popularizes oh-so-sexy cutoff jean shorts.

4. Eva Longoria makes her debut.

5. A Pink Panther movie is released.

6. The Boston Red Sox are involved in a tense, dramatic World Series that goes to a deciding game seven.

7. Bruce Springsteen has a critically acclaimed hit album.

8. An audit of a major company shows company officials fabricated financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."

9. We watch Farrah Fawcett every week on TV.

10. The Longest Yard, with Burr Reynolds, wins the Golden Globe for best comedy.

11. An unelected president is the butt of jokes for his bumbling manner.

12. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in a film based on a book.

13. We watch Robert Blake in a tense crime drama.

14. The California governor is a Republican and former actor.

answers

1. 2005: Simon Cowell (also acceptable: 1975, Jaws)

2.1975: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was traded from the Bucks to the Lakers (the Shaquille O'Neal trade happened in 2004)

3. 2005: Jessica Simpson (Dukes didn't premiere on TV until 1979)

4. 1975: Also the year Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Drew Barrymore, and Kate Winslet were born

5. 1975 and 2005: The Return of the Pink Panther and The Pink Panther

6. 1975: They lost to the Reds ([in 2004, they swept the Series)

7.1975 and 2005: Born to Run and Devils & Dust

8. 1975: Mattel

9. 2005: Chasing Farrah (Charlie's Angels didn't debut until 1976)

10. 1975: Although Reynolds is in the remake as well

11. 1975: Gerald Ford

12. 1975: The Eiger Sanction

13. 1975: Baretta (also acceptable: 2005. Bonnie Bakety murder trial)

14. 1975 and 2005: Ronald Reagan, who was the governor of Call from '67-'75, and Arnold Schwarzenegger