In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 22nd September 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | David Blaine|Heidi Klum|Seth MacFarlane|Sean Paul|Monica Seles|Kristen Wiig |
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1973 | |
| 2. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
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1979 | |
| 3. | Christian Bale|Elizabeth Banks|Alyson Hannigan|Kate Moss|Ryan Phillippe|Joaquin Phoenix |
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1974 | |
| 4. | 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 | |
| 5. | 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 | |
| 6. | Part of her Heretic range, what actress launched scented candles labelled "This Smells Like My Vagina" and "This Smells Like My Orgasm" in 2020? |
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Gwyneth Paltrow | |
| 7. | 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 |
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1969 | |
| 8. | 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 | |
| 9. | Walt Disney's Peter Pan premiered around the world|U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier| Laos and Cambodia became independent from France |
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1953 | |
| 10. | Winston Churchill was re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, a nuclear bomb was detonated at the Nevada Test Site for the first time|Alice in Wonderland, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and The African Queen all premiered worldwide |
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1951 | |
| 11. | The Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War|the World Trade Center was officially opened in New York City|Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong |
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1973 | |
| 12. | The Tunisian and Egyptian governments were overthrown amid the Arab Spring protests|an estimated two billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton|Osama bin Laden was killed during an American military operation in Pakistan |
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2011 | |
| 13. | three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Spain in the Palomares B-52 crash|Star Trek debuted on NBC with its first episode, The Man Trap|116 children and 28 adults were killed in the Aberfan disaster in South Wales |
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1966 | |
| 14. | Will Ferrell|Jamie Foxx|Jimmy Kimmel|Jürgen Klopp|Matt LeBlanc|Anna Nicole Smith |
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1967 | |
| 15. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
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1985 | |
| 16. | The Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan|Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka|Apollo 17 marked the last time man set foot on the moon |
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1972 | |
| 17. | The "Velvet Divorce" divided Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia|an IRA bomb exploded in Warrington, England killing two children|the Battle of Mogadishu, dubbed "Black Hawk Down", took place in Somalia |
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1993 | |
| 18. | 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 | |
| 19. | 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 |
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1968 | |
| 20. | 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 | |
| 21. | Sandra Bullock|Courteney Cox|Nicolas Cage|Rob Lowe|Keanu Reeves|Russell Crowe |
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1964 | |
| 22. | two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts|British Army soldier Lee Rigby was murdered by terrorists in Woolwich, southeast London|nearly 1500 were injured when a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk |
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2013 | |
| 23. | The Beatles performed at the Cavern Club for the first time|The Apartment won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade |
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1961 | |
| 24. | Andy Warhol premièred his Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit in Los Angeles|The Rolling Stones made their début at London's Marquee Club|Telstar relayed the first live trans-Atlantic television signal |
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1962 | |
| 25. | Alec Baldwin|Peter Capaldi|Ellen DeGeneres|Gary Oldman|Michelle Pfeiffer|Prince |
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1958 | |
| 26. | the Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to legally marry|Wikipedia was launched|Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing |
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2001 | |
| 27. | The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was officially opened|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 |
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2010 | |
| 28. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
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1939 | |
| 29. | Cleopatra premièred around the world|ZIP codes were introduced by the U.S. Postal Service|British prostitute Christine Keeler was arrested and convicted of perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair |
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1963 | |
| 30. | Daniel Day-Lewis|Gloria Estefan|Dawn French|Steven Fry|Dolph Lundgren|Donny Osmond |
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1957 | |
| 31. | Sir Winston Churchill died, aged 90|My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins won 13 Academy Awards between them|Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested |
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1965 | |
| 32. | the FIFA World Cup was hosted by West Germany|Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth's MLB home run record|Turkey twice invaded Cyprus, occupying more than a third of the country |
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1974 | |
| 33. | Sid Vicious was found dead of a heroin overdose, aged 21, in New York City|the first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan|the Iran hostage crisis began with 90 hostages being taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran |
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1979 | |
| 34. | In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, to the nearest million, how many million more people voted for Joe Biden than Donald Trump? |
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7 (81,281,502 vs 74,222,593) | |
| 35. | Kobe Bryant|James Corden|Ashton Kutcher|Manny Pacquiao|Katie Price|Nicole Scherzinger |
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1978 | |
| 36. | 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 |
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1991 | |
| 37. | 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 |
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1982 | |
| 38. | More than 133,000 in Myanmar were killed by Cyclone Nargis|Barack Obama was elected President of the United States|protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy stormed into Suvarnabhumi Airport and blocked flights from taking off |
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2008 | |
| 39. | Anna Kournikova|Rami Malek|Meghan Markle|Natalie Portman|Serena Williams|Elijah Wood |
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1981 | |
| 40. | 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 | |
| 41. | Sarah Michelle Gellar|Thierry Henry|Emmanuel Macron|Floyd Mayweather, Jr.|Zachary Quinto|Kanye West |
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1977 | |
| 42. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
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1968 | |
| 43. | 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 |
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1992 | |
| 44. | 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 | |
| 45. | Rick Astley|Stephen Baldwin|Helena Bonham Carter|Alan Davies|Patrick Dempsey|Chris Eubank |
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1966 | |
| 46. | Euro notes and coins were introduced for the first time|at least 170 people were killed when Chechen rebels held the audience hostage in the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow|Brazil won the FIFA World Cup, hosted in South Korea and Japan |
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2002 | |
| 47. | Shirley Bassey|Jane Fonda|Morgan Freeman|Dustin Hoffman|Anthony Hopkins|Jack Nicholson |
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1937 | |
| 48. | 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 | |
| 49. | The children's television show Teletubbies made its debut on BBC 2|the first Harry Potter book was published in London|James Cameron's Titanic premiered in the United States |
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1997 | |
| 50. | Windows XP was launched by Microsoft|George Harrison died at the age of 58|a Paris–Miami flight was diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid attempted to set light to his explosive-filled shoe |
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2001 | |
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