In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 10th November 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
| 2. | 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? |
| 3. | Will Ferrell|Jamie Foxx|Jimmy Kimmel|Jürgen Klopp|Matt LeBlanc|Anna Nicole Smith |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | the Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, England|British prostitute Christine Keeler was arrested and convicted of perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair|ZIP codes were introduced by the U.S. Postal Service |
| 6. | 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 |
| 7. | 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 |
| 8. | Jeff Goldblum|David Hasselhoff|Imran Khan|Liam Neeson|Mr. T|Harvey Weinstein |
| 9. | In a July 2020 Fox News interview, what 5 words did Donald Trump boast he'd successfully repeated in a cognitive test he'd recently taken? |
| 10. | Benedict Cumberbatch|Anna Faris|Peyton Manning|Ronaldo|Blake Shelton|Reese Witherspoon |
| 11. | Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. and fell into the Potomac River|Chariots of Fire won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture|the Commodore 64 home computer was released |
| 12. | Lance Armstrong|Gary Barlow|Martin Freeman|Michael C. Hall|Sandra Oh|David Tennant |
| 13. | Cilla Black|George Harrison|Julio Iglesias|Billie Jean King|John Major|Christopher Walken |
| 14. | U.S. President Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term|The English Patient won Best Picture at the 69th Academy Awards|the United Kingdom handed sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China |
| 15. | Björk|Kevin James|Jeremy Kyle|Martin Lawrence|Chris Rock|Slash |
| 16. | 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 |
| 17. | The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station|Argentina won the FIFA World Cup|Out of Africa won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture |
| 18. | Harald V became King of Norway|the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was published by Sega|Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury died from pneumonia induced by AIDS |
| 19. | Ferdinand Marcos became "President for Life of the Philippines"|Bobby Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in tennis' first two Battle of the Sexes|Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, London |
| 20. | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board|Russia were suspended from the G8 after formally annexing Crimea|the Royal Thai Army overthrew Thailand's caretaker government after its failure to resolve political unrest |
| 21. | the first Sony PlayStation was released|Steve Fossett became the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon|Jacques Chirac was elected president of France |
| 22. | The Winter Olympics were held in Lillehammer, Norway|Schindler's List won seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director|the car ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people |
| 23. | Tony Blair|Pierce Brosnan|Hulk Hogan|Cyndi Lauper|John Malkovich|Victoria Wood |
| 24. | Magnus Carlsen|Jennifer Lawrence|Margot Robbie|Kristen Stewart|Emma Watson|The Weeknd |
| 25. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
| 26. | 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 |
| 27. | Chester Bennington|Cat Deeley|Cillian Murphy|Ross Noble|Ryan Reynolds|Alicia Silverstone |
| 28. | The Green Bay Packers won the first ever Super Bowl|Celtic became the first non-Latin football club to win the European Cup|The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| 29. | Western Allies began the Berlin Airlift|US President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan|Korea was divided into North and South |
| 30. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 31. | Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, went missing in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar Rally|the DeLorean Car factory in Belfast went into receivership|Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of Germany |
| 32. | The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground off Alaska|the Hillsborough disaster claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool supporters|Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity |
| 33. | 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 |
| 34. | Jimmy Carter succeeded Gerald Ford as President of the United States|Red Rum won a record third Grand National at Aintree racecourse|the first Apple II and Commodore Pet computers went on sale |
| 35. | 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 |
| 36. | the Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea|Australian soap opera Home and Away was aired for the first time|Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people |
| 37. | 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 |
| 38. | 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 |
| 39. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor|Heath Ledger|Kourtney Kardashian|Michael Owen|Flo Rida|Leo Varadkar |
| 40. | Noel Gallagher|Rhys Ifans|Guy Pierce|Liev Schreiber|Keith Urban|Emily Watson |
| 41. | 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 |
| 42. | Leonid Brezhnev became General Secretary of the Soviet Union|Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were convicted and sentenced|Walt Disney died while producing The Jungle Book, the last animated feature under his personal supervision |
| 43. | Woody Allen|Julie Andrews|Jerry Lee Lewis|Dudley Moore|Elvis Presley|Donald Sutherland |
| 44. | Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared, presumed drowned, in the sea near Portsea, Victoria|the New Zealand dollar replaced the New Zealand pound|Beatles manager Brian Epstein was found dead in his locked bedroom |
| 45. | At Camp David, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin formally declared that the Cold War was over|Microsoft released Windows 3.1|a fire at Windsor Castle caused over £50 million worth of damage |
| 46. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premiered around the world|John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|Cleopatra premiered around the world |
| 47. | 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 |
| 48. | Alice Cooper|Olivia Newton-John|Ted Nugent|Robert Plant|Cat Stevens|Steven Tyler |
| 49. | Christina Aguilera|Zooey Deschanel|Russell Howard|Chris Pine|Jessica Simpson|Channing Tatum |
| 50. | Richard Nixon was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States|Midnight Cowboy was released in cinemas worldwide|a coup d'état put Gaddafi in control of Libya |
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