In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 24th February 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Will Ferrell|Jamie Foxx|Jimmy Kimmel|Jürgen Klopp|Matt LeBlanc|Anna Nicole Smith |
| 2. | 14 people were killed in Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday|11 Israeli athletes were killed at the Olympics in Munich|the Airbus A300 flew for the first time |
| 3. | 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 |
| 4. | Elizabeth II ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom|A Streetcar Named Desire won four Oscars|the United States successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands |
| 5. | Serial killer Ted Bundy was captured in Pensacola, Florida|the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of Brittany|Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days of papacy |
| 6. | UK Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigned and was succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson|French president Georges Pompidou died of cancer at 63|Patty Hearst was photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing a bank in San Francisco |
| 7. | Eric Clapton|Goldie Hawn|Bob Marley|Steve Martin|Tom Selleck|Rod Stewart |
| 8. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 9. | Return of the Jedi opened in theatres worldwide|Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighters|United States troops led the Invasion of Grenada |
| 10. | Cilla Black|George Harrison|Julio Iglesias|Billie Jean King|John Major|Christopher Walken |
| 11. | 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 |
| 12. | George Best|Ted Bundy|Tim Curry|Diane Keaton|Steven Spielberg|Donald Trump |
| 13. | Jackie Chan|Prayut Chan-o-cha|Elvis Costello|Howard Stern|Kathleen Turner|Oprah Winfrey |
| 14. | The Australian dollar replaced the Australian pound|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premièred worldwide|Luna 9 and Surveyor 1 achieved the first lunar soft landings |
| 15. | General John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were found guilty and sentenced over the Watergate scandal|Peter Gabriel left Genesis, replaced on lead vocals by drummer Phil Collins|The Rocky Horror Picture Show premièred in cinemas worldwide |
| 16. | Danny Boyle|Mel Gibson|Jerry Hall|Linda Hamilton|Sugar Ray Leonard|Christoph Waltz |
| 17. | 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|the world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge, was opened in France |
| 18. | Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars at the 32nd Academy Awards|the Great Chilean Earthquake, at 9.5, was, and still is, the strongest ever recorded|the Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia in the final of football's first ever European Nations Cup |
| 19. | Margaret Thatcher became leader of the UK Conservative Party|NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars|U.S. President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts |
| 20. | an IRA bomb exploded in Warrington, England killing two children|more than 130 died when the Royal Plaza Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima collapsed|the "Velvet Divorce" divided Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
| 21. | 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 |
| 22. | 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 |
| 23. | 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 |
| 24. | Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth's MLB home run record|the FIFA World Cup was hosted by West Germany|Turkey twice invaded Cyprus, occupying more than a third of the country |
| 25. | Björn Borg|David Copperfield|Geena Davis|Andy Garcia|Theresa May|Joe Montana |
| 26. | Northern Rock became the first bank in Europe to be taken into state control due to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis|Dmitry Medvedev replaced Vladimir Putin as President of Russia|Michael Phelps won a record eight Gold Medals at a single Olympics |
| 27. | The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy|Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee|Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia for the second time |
| 28. | The Summer of Love began in the U.S. and spread around the world|the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles|Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu married in Las Vegas |
| 29. | Boris Yeltsin became the first elected president of Russia|an amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|the Soviet Union was dissolved into 15 independent states |
| 30. | A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform A spilt oil onto beaches in Santa Barbara, California|the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo was first published|John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in Gibraltar |
| 31. | Sandra Bullock|Courteney Cox|Nicolas Cage|Rob Lowe|Keanu Reeves|Russell Crowe |
| 32. | The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas|the Iraq War began when U.S. led forces invaded Iraq|Concorde made its last commercial flight |
| 33. | Richard Ayoade|Tom Brady|John Cena|Michael Fassbender|Ronan Keating|Liv Tyler |
| 34. | Fidel Castro arrived in Havana and was sworn in as Premier of Cuba|Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic|the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and was granted asylum in India |
| 35. | 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 |
| 36. | 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 |
| 37. | Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote in a coup to become president of Uganda|East Pakistan became Bangladesh after gaining independence from Pakistan|Jim Morrison of The Doors was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, France |
| 38. | the tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was officially opened|the Smolensk air disaster killed all 96 people on board, including President of Poland Lech Kaczyński|the FIFA World Cup was won by Spain in South Africa |
| 39. | Daniel Day-Lewis|Gloria Estefan|Dawn French|Steven Fry|Dolph Lundgren|Donny Osmond |
| 40. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
| 41. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
| 42. | Jeff Goldblum|David Hasselhoff|Imran Khan|Liam Neeson|Mr. T|Harvey Weinstein |
| 43. | Prime Minister of Thailand Chatichai Choonhavan was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état|the Gulf War ended with Operation Desert Storm and the Liberation of Kuwait|the Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting |
| 44. | 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 |
| 45. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
| 46. | 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 |
| 47. | George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as President of the United States|the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, ending a 9 year long war|Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a US$3m bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie |
| 48. | 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 |
| 49. | Hilary Duff|Kesha|Chelsea Manning|Maria Sharapova|Jamie Vardy|Sebastian Vettel |
| 50. | 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? |
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