In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 24th August 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Petr Čech|Anne Hathaway|Kate Middleton|Nicki Minaj|Eddie Redmayne|Matt Smith |
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1982 | |
| 2. | George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton as President of the United States|the Russian Mir space station re-entered the atmosphere to end its 15 year service in the Pacific Ocean|English politician and author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to 4 years in prison |
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2001 | |
| 3. | 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 |
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1957 | |
| 4. | 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 |
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1966 | |
| 5. | film director Roman Polanski skipped bail and fled to France, after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl|Superman, starring Christopher Reeve, was released worldwide|Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights topped the charts in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand |
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1978 | |
| 6. | 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? |
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Disinfectant & UV light | |
| 7. | 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 |
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2010 | |
| 8. | 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 |
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1968 | |
| 9. | The Winter Olympics were held in Albertville, France|boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington|the Bosnian War began |
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1992 | |
| 10. | Gemma Arterton|Usain Bolt|Megan Fox|Lady Gaga|Amber Heard|Shia LaBeouf |
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1986 | |
| 11. | Mary J Blige|Ricky Martin|Ewan McGregor|Jeremy Renner|Kid Rock|David Walliams |
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1971 | |
| 12. | Rick Astley|Stephen Baldwin|Helena Bonham Carter|Alan Davies|Patrick Dempsey|Chris Eubank |
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1966 | |
| 13. | The Apple Macintosh went on sale for the first time|Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union|an IRA bomb killed 5 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton |
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1984 | |
| 14. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
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1979 | |
| 15. | Bob Dylan|Alex Ferguson|Gorden Kaye|Ryan O'Neal|Bernie Sanders|Paul Simon |
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1941 | |
| 16. | The Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing|the first iPod was introduced by Apple |
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2001 | |
| 17. | The Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy|after writing When I'm Sixty-Four at age 16, former Beatle Paul McCartney turned 64|the social-networking service Twitter was officially launched |
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2006 | |
| 18. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
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1939 | |
| 19. | The Brixton Riots took place in South London|the first recognized cases of AIDS were reported by the CDC in Los Angeles|the English Football League became the first major league in the world to award three points for a win instead of two |
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1981 | |
| 20. | What retired footballer spent 32 days in jail in March/April after allegedly entering Paraguay with a false passport? |
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Ronaldinho | |
| 21. | Ban Ki-moon replaced Kofi Annan as United Nations Secretary-General|a South Korean expat student shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, before committing suicide|One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashed in Phuket, killing 89 passengers and crew |
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2007 | |
| 22. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
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1981 | |
| 23. | Pan Am began the first commercial 747 service, flying from New York to London|Black Sabbath released their self-named début album|the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed |
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1970 | |
| 24. | The War in Darfur began|an arsonist destroyed a train in Daegu, South Korea, killing more than 190|the SARS virus was declared to be contained by the World Health Organization |
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2003 | |
| 25. | Daniel Day-Lewis|Gloria Estefan|Dawn French|Steven Fry|Dolph Lundgren|Donny Osmond |
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1957 | |
| 26. | David Cameron|Stefan Edberg|Samantha Fox|Mikhail Mishustin|Kiefer Sutherland|Robin Wright |
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1966 | |
| 27. | 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 |
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1985 | |
| 28. | The first ever Major League Soccer season kicked off|Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell|the Prince and Princess of Wales were formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London |
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1996 | |
| 29. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 30. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 31. | Captained by Richard Phillips, the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama was captured by Somali pirates|an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus ("swine flu") was declared a global pandemic|Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 |
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2009 | |
| 32. | Gaining notoriety in a 2020 documentary TV series, by what name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage better known? |
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Joe Exotic / Tiger King | |
| 33. | 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 |
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1995 | |
| 34. | Penélope Cruz|Jimmy Fallon|Seth Green|Eva Mendes|Paul Scholes|Robbie Williams |
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1974 | |
| 35. | Adam Ant|Ellen Barkin|Hugo Chavez|Angela Merkel|Jerry Seinfeld|John Travolta |
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1954 | |
| 36. | 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 | |
| 37. | 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 |
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1993 | |
| 38. | Steve Fossett became the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon|Barings Bank collapsed after Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion on the Tokyo Stock Exchange|Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv |
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1995 | |
| 39. | Bill Gates founded Microsoft|Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing|The Birmingham Six were wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment |
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1975 | |
| 40. | Eddie Cochran|Brian Dennehy|Oliver Reed|Jon Voight|Bill Withers|Natalie Wood |
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1938 | |
| 41. | Posing as Canadians, six U.S. diplomats escaped from Tehran on a flight to Zürich|Joy Division singer/songwriter Ian Curtis was found hanged|the trade union Solidarność ("Solidarity") was established in Gdańsk, Poland |
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1980 | |
| 42. | 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 | |
| 43. | 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 |
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2009 | |
| 44. | 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 |
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1994 | |
| 45. | 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 | |
| 46. | 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 | |
| 47. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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1969 | |
| 48. | 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|Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married |
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1990 | |
| 49. | Patricia Arquette|Gary Coleman|Terry Crews|LL Cool J|Lisa Marie Presley|Naomi Watts |
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1968 | |
| 50. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
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1970 | |
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