In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 9th November 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel|Britain's Queen Mother died aged 101|202 people were killed in the Bali bombings |
| 2. | Peter Andre|Neve Campbell|Neil Patrick Harris|Jim Parsons|Ole Gunnar Solskjær|Ichiro Suzuki |
| 3. | Kirstie Alley|Lynda Carter|John Deacon|Mark Harmon|Cheryl Ladd|Stellan Skarsgård |
| 4. | Cleopatra premièred around the world|ZIP codes were introduced by the U.S. Postal Service|British prostitute Christine Keeler was arrested and convicted of perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair |
| 5. | 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 |
| 6. | The Sound of Music premièred worldwide|racing driver Jim Clark won the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula One world driving championship in the same year|Singapore gained independence by being expelled from Malaysia |
| 7. | Alaska and Hawaii became U.S. states|Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash|Sleeping Beauty was released in cinemas around the world |
| 8. | murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen became the last people to be executed in the UK|the Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|the Beatles made their first live American TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show |
| 9. | Rick Astley|Stephen Baldwin|Helena Bonham Carter|Alan Davies|Patrick Dempsey|Chris Eubank |
| 10. | Euro notes and coins were introduced for the first time|at least 170 people were killed when Chechen rebels held the audience hostage in the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow|Brazil won the FIFA World Cup, hosted in South Korea and Japan |
| 11. | Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President|Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft for 12 minutes, became the first person to walk in space|Muhammad Ali's "Phantom Punch" knocked out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch |
| 12. | The Kobe earthquake in Japan killed 6,434 people|the Oklahoma City bombing claimed the lives of 168|O. J. Simpson was found not guilty of double murder in his criminal trial |
| 13. | Simon Cowell|Magic Johnson|Hugh Laurie|Kevin Spacey|Emma Thompson|Morrissey |
| 14. | Barack Obama was elected President of the United States|Kosovo formally declared independence from Serbia|the Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, China |
| 15. | American porn publisher Larry Flynt was shot and paralysed|a poison-filled pellet from an umbrella killed Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London|the Jonestown incident in Guyana ended with a mass murder-suicide claiming 918 lives |
| 16. | Eleven thieves stole more than $2 million from the Brink's armoured car company headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts|the first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship was held at Silverstone, England|North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, marking the start of the Korean War |
| 17. | Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President|The Beatles performed at Shea Stadium in New York, the first ever stadium rock concert|in Rhodesia, Ian Smith declared de facto independence from the UK |
| 18. | the Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Wikipedia was launched|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing |
| 19. | Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father, one day before his 45th birthday|English comedian Tommy Cooper died of a massive heart attack while live on TV|The Chicago White Sox defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 in the longest game in Major League Baseball history |
| 20. | A van bomb below the World Trade Center killed 6 people|the Grand National was declared void after a series of false starts|85 people were killed during the Waco siege in Texas |
| 21. | the world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge, was opened in France|Chechen terrorists took more than 1,000 hostage in the Beslan school hostage crisis|SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded, manned craft to achieve spaceflight |
| 22. | Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space|the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba took place|Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 23. | A Man for All Seasons won Best Picture at the 39th Academy Awards|Muhammad Ali was arrested for refusing induction into the U.S. Army|the Six-Day War saw Israel capture land in Egypt, Jordan and Syria |
| 24. | Described by doctors as "dangerous" and "ridiculous"; in a rambling speech in April 2020, what two things did Donald Trump suggest as treatments for coronavirus? |
| 25. | the Aswan High Dam officially opened in Egypt|The United Kingdom and Ireland both switched to decimal currency|Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gained independence from the United Kingdom |
| 26. | 2001: A Space Odyssey premièred around the world|the Summer Olympics took place in Mexico|Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis |
| 27. | Bradley Cooper|Tiger Woods|Milla Jovovich|will.i.am|Mel B|Tara Reid |
| 28. | 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 |
| 29. | Antonio Banderas|Gary Lineker|Julianne Moore|James Spader|Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)|Carol Vorderman |
| 30. | George W. Bush was sworn into office, succeeding Bill Clinton as President of the United States|Russian space station Mir re-entered the atmosphere to end its 15 year service in the Pacific Ocean|the first iPod was introduced by Apple |
| 31. | What retired footballer spent 32 days in jail in March/April after allegedly entering Paraguay with a false passport? |
| 32. | 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 |
| 33. | A suicide bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people|Sally Ride became the first American woman in space|Neil Kinnock was elected leader of the British Labour Party |
| 34. | The PlayStation 2 was released worldwide|an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel near Paris|the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida presidential recount, effectively handing the Presidency to George W. Bush |
| 35. | On the roof of Apple Records, London, The Beatles gave their last public performance|the Boeing 747 and Concorde both flew for the first time|Willy Brandt became Chancellor of West Germany |
| 36. | Part of her Heretic range, what actress launched scented candles labelled "This Smells Like My Vagina" and "This Smells Like My Orgasm" in 2020? |
| 37. | Euro notes and coins were introduced for the first time|Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan|Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, died |
| 38. | The Godfather was released in cinemas worldwide|Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka|the Watergate Scandal began with five White House operatives being arrested for burglary |
| 39. | two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts|British Army soldier Lee Rigby was murdered by terrorists in Woolwich, southeast London|nearly 1500 were injured when a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk |
| 40. | Noel Gallagher|Rhys Ifans|Guy Pierce|Liev Schreiber|Keith Urban|Emily Watson |
| 41. | 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 feet fall without a parachute after the plane she was on was bombed|The French Connection won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the arcade version of Pong was released |
| 42. | John Barnes|Phoebe Cates|Lisa Kudrow|Graham Norton|Conan O'Brien|Rob Schneider |
| 43. | the body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean|President George H. W. Bush ordered a cease-fire and declared victory over Iraq in the Gulf War|Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from Yugoslavia |
| 44. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
| 45. | Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash |
| 46. | 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 |
| 47. | three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Spain in the Palomares B-52 crash|Star Trek debuted on NBC with its first episode, The Man Trap|116 children and 28 adults were killed in the Aberfan disaster in South Wales |
| 48. | 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 |
| 49. | the Jonestown incident in Guyana ended with a mass murder-suicide claiming 918 lives|American porn publisher Larry Flynt was shot and paralysed|serial killer Ted Bundy was captured in Pensacola, Florida |
| 50. | Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q |
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