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In This Year

50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters.

New random selection made weekly.  Next update: Monday 7th July 2025

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1.Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall|New Zealand won the first ever Rugby World Cup|The King's Cross fire on the London Underground killed 31
2.Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt began|a mine collapse in Coalbrook, South Africa killed 500 miners|the Summer Olympic Games were held in Rome
3.Richard Ayoade|Tom Brady|John Cena|Michael Fassbender|Ronan Keating|Liv Tyler
4.Simon Cowell|Magic Johnson|Hugh Laurie|Kevin Spacey|Emma Thompson|Morrissey
5.Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Around the World in 80 Days won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika
6.Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid
7.John Howard was sworn in for the first time as Prime Minister of Australia|Braveheart won Best Picture at the 68th Academy Awards|an IRA bomb injured 212 in Manchester, England
8.Steve Fossett broke the world record for the fastest non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer|the Airbus A380 made its maiden test flight in France|the 7/7 suicide bomb attacks killed 52 in London, England
9.Christina Aguilera|Zooey Deschanel|Russell Howard|Chris Pine|Jessica Simpson|Channing Tatum
10.Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale|Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest|the Korean Armistice Agreement halted the Korean War
11.The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, killing 180|Irish rock band U2 released their album The Joshua Tree|former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment
12.Boy George|Eddie Murphy|George Clooney|Meg Ryan|Michael J. Fox|Princess Diana
13.the Post Office Tower opened in London|the classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuted in the United Kingdom|200 Alabama State Troopers attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama in what was to become known as Bloody Sunday
14.The Who drummer Keith Moon died from an accidental overdose, aged 32, in London, England|Annie Hall won Best Picture at the 50th Academy Awards|a poison-filled pellet from an umbrella killed Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London
15.David Cameron|Stefan Edberg|Samantha Fox|Mikhail Mishustin|Kiefer Sutherland|Robin Wright
16.Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France|John Lennon and Yoko Ono conducted their Bed-In at a hotel in Montreal, Quebec| and Neil Armstrong took his historic first steps on the Moon

17.Two 747s collided on the runway in Tenerife, killing 583|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opened in cinemas worldwide|Steve Biko died from injuries sustained in police custody in South Africa
18.U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term|Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon|The Sears Tower in Chicago was finished, becoming the world's tallest building
19.Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighters|seatbelt use for drivers and front-seat passengers became mandatory in the United Kingdom|United States troops led the Invasion of Grenada
20.Forrest Gump won Best Picture at the 67th Academy Awards|a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killed 13 and injured 5,510|the Dayton Peace Agreement brought an end to the Bosnian War
21.Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the UK due to ill-health at the age of 80|Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois|James Dean was killed in a car crash
22.Racing driver Jim Clark was killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim|Richard Nixon won the U.S. presidential election|The Beatles released their self-titled album, popularly known as the White Album
23.David Beckham|Judy Greer|Lauryn Hill|Sean Lennon|Tobey Maguire|Kate Winslet
24.a massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia started the Kosovo War|the FIFA World Cup was held in France|Google was founded in California by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
25.An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Suphanburi, Thailand, killing all 223 on board|Mike Tyson was charged with the rape of Desiree Washington
26.Noel Gallagher|Rhys Ifans|Guy Pierce|Liev Schreiber|Keith Urban|Emily Watson
27.Kristen Bell|Macauley Culkin|Steven Gerrard|Ryan Gosling|Kim Kardashian|Zachary Levi
28.Andre Agassi|Jennifer Connelly|Richard Osman|Simon Pegg|Vince Vaughn|Rachel Weisz
29.The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed|the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century occurred over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean|actor David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room
30.the Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan|16 people survived an air crash in the Andes mountains by resorting to cannibalism|Apollo 17 marked the last time man set foot on the moon
31.Eddie Cochran|Brian Dennehy|Oliver Reed|Jon Voight|Bill Withers|Natalie Wood
32.Aloha Flight 243 landed safely in Maui despite losing a large portion of its upper fuselage in mid-flight|165 were killed in the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea|vocalist Roy Orbison died of a heart attack

33.Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill
34.Robert Downey Jr.|Sarah Jessica Parker|J.K. Rowling|Charlie Sheen|Brooke Shields|Ben Stiller|Shania Twain
35.16 infant school pupils and a teacher were killed in the Dunblane massacre in Scotland|"Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin|35 were killed in Tasmania in the Port Arthur massacre
36.Windows XP was launched by Microsoft|George Harrison died at the age of 58|a Paris–Miami flight was diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid attempted to set light to his explosive-filled shoe
37.the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union|86 people were killed and more than 400 others injured in a truck attack in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations|the Chicago Cubs ended the longest championship drought in American sports history by winning the World Series for the first time since 1908
38.Mike Tyson made his professional début in New York|Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French agents|the wreck of the Titanic was finally located
39.George Foreman|Don Johnson|Jessica Lange|Bill Nighy|Meryl Streep|Roger Taylor (Queen)
40.Raiders of the Lost Ark was released worldwide|U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley Jr.|Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated
41.an earthquake in Haiti killed more than 316,000 people|the Deepwater Horizon oil spill discharged nearly 5 billion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico|David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
42.Terms of Endearment won Best Picture at the 56th Academy Awards|WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead, leading to a police siege of the Libyan Embassy in London|Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated
43.Pat Cash|Steve Coogan|Elizabeth Hurley|Mark Labbett|Lennox Lewis|Sam Mendes
44.Joe Cocker|Roger Daltrey|Gary Glitter|Gladys Knight|Jimmy Page|Barry White
45.The Sound of Music won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister of India for the first time|Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell as Doctor Who
46.U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.|the first Mario game, Donkey Kong, was released| Muhammad Ali was beaten in his last-ever fight by Trevor Berbick
47.Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President|in Rhodesia, Ian Smith declared de facto independence from the UK|the red and white maple leaf design replaced the Union Flag as the flag of Canada
48.Camilla Parker Bowles|Johan Cruyff|Ted Danson|Farrah Fawcett|Kevin Kline|David Letterman
49.Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married|McDonald's opened restaurants in Russia and Mainland China for the first time|a U.S. District Court acquitted Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges
50.the BBC sitcom Dad's Army was broadcast for the first time in the UK|Rosemary's Baby premiered around the world|a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashed in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs


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