In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 4th December 2023 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Alan Alda|Brian Blessed|Glen Campbell|Mary Tyler Moore|Robert Redford|Burt Reynolds |
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1936 | |
| 2. | Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer married at St Paul's Cathedral|Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated|Muhammad Ali, in his last-ever fight, lost to Trevor Berbick |
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1981 | |
| 3. | The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|I Want to Hold Your Hand became The Beatles' first #1 single in the U.S.A.|Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married for the first time |
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1964 | |
| 4. | What rock star conceded defeat to 10-year-old Nandi Bushell after a series of online drum battles this year, prompting the former to write a song in her honour? |
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Dave Grohl | |
| 5. | 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 |
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2008 | |
| 6. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
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1952 | |
| 7. | 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 |
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1989 | |
| 8. | 125 million people watched the final episode of M*A*S*H, the most watched television broadcast in American history|Michael Jackson's Thriller video was aired on MTV for the first time|Return of the Jedi opened in theatres worldwide |
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1983 | |
| 9. | Hilary Duff|Kesha|Chelsea Manning|Maria Sharapova|Jamie Vardy|Sebastian Vettel |
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1987 | |
| 10. | Aisling Bea|LeBron James|Scarlett Johansson|Trevor Noah|Katy Perry|Mark Zuckerberg |
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1984 | |
| 11. | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, premiered around the world|President Richard Nixon declared the U.S. "War on Drugs"|the first book in the Mr. Men series, Mr. Tickle, was first published |
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1971 | |
| 12. | Brigitte Bardot|Leonard Cohen|Judi Dench|George Segal|Maggie Smith|Frankie Valli |
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1934 | |
| 13. | Cyprus became independent from the United Kingdom|21-year-old American rock singer Eddie Cochran died in a car crash in south England|U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy was elected Democratic presidential candidate |
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1960 | |
| 14. | 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 |
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1989 | |
| 15. | Nadia Comăneci|Billy Ray Cyrus|Laurence Fishburne|Ricky Gervais|Wayne Gretzky|Woody Harrelson |
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1961 | |
| 16. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
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1968 | |
| 17. | Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company|Nadia Comăneci scored seven perfect 10s at the Summer Olympics|Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars |
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1976 | |
| 18. | U.S. forces made a controversial move into neutral Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong|New Zealander racing driver and team founder Bruce McLaren was killed while testing a new race car|the North Tower of the World Trade Center was topped out, making it the tallest building in the world |
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1970 | |
| 19. | 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 |
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1965 | |
| 20. | 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 |
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1996 | |
| 21. | 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 |
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1972 | |
| 22. | George V became King of the United Kingdom|the Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet|African-American boxer Jack Johnson's defeat of white American James J. Jeffries sparked race riots across the United States |
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1910 | |
| 23. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 24. | 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 |
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2014 | |
| 25. | The Apollo 13 mission was aborted after an explosion on board|The Beatles released their 12th and final studio album, Let It Be|a Civil War with the Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia |
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1970 | |
| 26. | 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 |
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1950 | |
| 27. | 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 |
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1966 | |
| 28. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
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1963 | |
| 29. | Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment|a bomb explosion at Northwestern University, Illinois marked the Unabomber's first attack|Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, was released worldwide |
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1978 | |
| 30. | George W. Bush began his second term as President of the United States|Pope John Paul II died|the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles |
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2005 | |
| 31. | The Iranian Embassy Siege took place in London|Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe|Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington |
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1980 | |
| 32. | 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 |
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1996 | |
| 33. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
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1979 | |
| 34. | 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 |
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2002 | |
| 35. | 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 |
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1991 | |
| 36. | Antonio Banderas|Gary Lineker|Julianne Moore|James Spader|Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)|Carol Vorderman |
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1960 | |
| 37. | Simon Cowell|Magic Johnson|Hugh Laurie|Kevin Spacey|Emma Thompson|Morrissey |
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1959 | |
| 38. | Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito|the Ayatollah Khomeini died|the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place |
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1989 | |
| 39. | Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate|the Cuban Missile Crisis came, and went|Lawrence of Arabia premièred around the world |
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1962 | |
| 40. | 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 |
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1973 | |
| 41. | Aston Villa won the European Cup|the world's first CDs went on sale to the public|Henry VIII's flagship, The Mary Rose, was raised |
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1982 | |
| 42. | Fleetwood Mac released their Grammy-winning album Rumours|Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee|a 25 hour blackout in New York City resulted in city-wide disorder and looting |
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1977 | |
| 43. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premièred around the world| John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|The Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, England |
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1963 | |
| 44. | 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 |
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1978 | |
| 45. | Richard Nixon died at the age of 81|Tony Blair was elected leader of the British Labour Party|Woodstock celebrated its 25th Anniversary |
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1994 | |
| 46. | 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 |
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1978 | |
| 47. | London-based Laker Airways collapsed, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million|Chariots of Fire won four Academy Awards including Best Picture|Yuri Andropov became leader of the Soviet Union |
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1982 | |
| 48. | Eric Clapton|Goldie Hawn|Bob Marley|Steve Martin|Tom Selleck|Rod Stewart |
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1945 | |
| 49. | 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 |
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1988 | |
| 50. | 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 |
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1991 | |
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