In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 20th January 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Roseanne Barr|Vladimir Putin|Christopher Reeve|Mickey Rourke|Steven Seagal|Louis Walsh |
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1952 | |
| 2. | 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 |
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1972 | |
| 3. | Joe Biden|Linda Evans|Harrison Ford|Jimi Hendrix|Terry Jones|Michael York |
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1942 | |
| 4. | Magnus Carlsen|Jennifer Lawrence|Margot Robbie|Kristen Stewart|Emma Watson|The Weeknd |
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1990 | |
| 5. | The Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian Civil War and took control of the country|Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the Thrilla in Manila|Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, was shot dead by the Provisional IRA |
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1975 | |
| 6. | 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 | |
| 7. | Julie Christie|Bruce Lee|John Lennon|Chuck Norris|Al Pacino|Pelé |
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1940 | |
| 8. | The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, killing 180|Irish rock band U2 released their album The Joshua Tree|former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment |
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1987 | |
| 9. | Björn Borg|David Copperfield|Geena Davis|Andy Garcia|Theresa May|Joe Montana |
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1956 | |
| 10. | The Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada|a Thai military crack down on the "Red Shirts" protests in Bangkok ended with 91 dead and more than 2,100 injured|Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia |
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2010 | |
| 11. | 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 |
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1995 | |
| 12. | Nadia Comăneci|Billy Ray Cyrus|Laurence Fishburne|Ricky Gervais|Wayne Gretzky|Woody Harrelson |
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1961 | |
| 13. | 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 |
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1974 | |
| 14. | 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 | |
| 15. | David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago was released|The Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction became their first number-one single in America|Ferdinand Marcos became President of the Philippines |
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1965 | |
| 16. | Emily Blunt|Mo Farah|Chris Hemsworth|Pippa Middleton|Aaron Rodgers|Edward Snowden |
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1983 | |
| 17. | 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 | |
| 18. | Rob Gronkowski|Anthony Joshua|Daniel Radcliffe|Daniel Ricciardo|Taylor Swift|Anton Yelchin |
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1989 | |
| 19. | Richard Branson|Robbie Coltrane|Agnetha Faltskog|Tom Petty|Martin Short|Stevie Wonder |
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1950 | |
| 20. | 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|Che Guevara was captured and executed in Bolivia |
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1967 | |
| 21. | Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile|William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was first published|the first Burger King opened in Miami, Florida |
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1954 | |
| 22. | Jacinda Ardern|Eva Green|Jake Gyllenhall|Christina Ricci|Jason Segel|Rebel Wilson |
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1980 | |
| 23. | David Beckham|Judy Greer|Lauryn Hill|Sean Lennon|Tobey Maguire|Kate Winslet |
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1975 | |
| 24. | In May 2020, what market town near Durham, England came to national attention when the chief advisor of the British Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings, was discovered to have driven there with his family during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
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Barnard Castle | |
| 25. | 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 |
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1978 | |
| 26. | Camilla Parker Bowles|Johan Cruyff|Ted Danson|Farrah Fawcett|Kevin Kline|David Letterman |
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1947 | |
| 27. | John Lennon said that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now"|Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones was released|actor Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California |
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1966 | |
| 28. | Ted Cruz|Matt Damon|Minnie Driver|Ethan Hawke|Queen Latifah|River Phoenix |
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1970 | |
| 29. | The Summer Olympics were held in Moscow|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released|Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the U.S. presidential election |
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1980 | |
| 30. | Michael Jordan|Johnny Depp|Brad Pitt|José Mourinho|Quentin Tarantino|George Michael |
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1963 | |
| 31. | Penélope Cruz|Jimmy Fallon|Seth Green|Eva Mendes|Paul Scholes|Robbie Williams |
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1974 | |
| 32. | 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 | |
| 33. | Halle Berry|Patrick Dempsey|Janet Jackson|Gordon Ramsay|Adam Sandler|Mike Tyson |
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1966 | |
| 34. | Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the UK due to ill-health at the age of 80|Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois|James Dean was killed in a car crash |
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1955 | |
| 35. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 36. | The Beatles released their début album Please Please Me|Lawrence of Arabia won Best Picture at the 35th Academy Awards|Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial |
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1963 | |
| 37. | Edward Heath became Prime Minister of the UK|Jimi Hendrix died in London of drug related complications|Anwar Sadat became President of Egypt |
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1970 | |
| 38. | 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 | |
| 39. | 66 were killed in a stairway crush at a Rangers Celtic match in Glasgow, Scotland|The Ed Sullivan Show aired its final episode|a terrorist bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London |
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1971 | |
| 40. | Lance Armstrong|Gary Barlow|Martin Freeman|Michael C. Hall|Sandra Oh|David Tennant |
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1971 | |
| 41. | Brenda Ann "I don't like Mondays" Spencer opened fire at a school in San Diego, killing two|Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II agreement in Vienna|11 fans were killed in a crush before The Who rock concert in Cincinnati, Ohio |
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1979 | |
| 42. | David Duchovny|Hugh Grant|Nigella Lawson|Ayrton Senna|Tilda Swinton|Bradley Walsh |
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1960 | |
| 43. | Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q |
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1979 | |
| 44. | Snoop Dogg|Missy Elliott|Elon Musk|Winona Ryder|Justin Trudeau|Mark Wahlberg |
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1971 | |
| 45. | The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois| Albert Einstein published both his special theory of relativity and the famous equation E = mc2|Norway dissolved its union with Sweden to become an independent country |
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1905 | |
| 46. | Aisling Bea|LeBron James|Scarlett Johansson|Trevor Noah|Katy Perry|Mark Zuckerberg |
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1984 | |
| 47. | The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado resulted in 15 deaths|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released worldwide|the modern Scottish Parliament was opened |
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1999 | |
| 48. | Daniel Day-Lewis|Gloria Estefan|Dawn French|Steven Fry|Dolph Lundgren|Donny Osmond |
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1957 | |
| 49. | 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 |
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1972 | |
| 50. | Danny Boyle|Mel Gibson|Jerry Hall|Linda Hamilton|Sugar Ray Leonard|Christoph Waltz |
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1956 | |
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