In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 15th June 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Kate Bosworth|Henry Cavill|Jesse Eisenberg|Andrew Garfield|Mila Kunis|Amy Winehouse |
| 2. | 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 |
| 3. | Danny Boyle|Mel Gibson|Jerry Hall|Linda Hamilton|Sugar Ray Leonard|Christoph Waltz |
| 4. | The Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York|the arcade game Pac-Man was released by Namco|the album Back in Black was released by Australian band AC/DC |
| 5. | 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? |
| 6. | 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 |
| 7. | 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 |
| 8. | 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 |
| 9. | The World Wide Web was opened up as a free public service|the Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union|Schindler's List, The Pelican Brief, and Philadelphia all premièred around the world |
| 10. | 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 |
| 11. | Jimmy Carter succeeded Gerald Ford as President of the United States|Red Rum won a record third Grand National at Aintree racecourse|the first Apple II and Commodore Pet computers went on sale |
| 12. | Richard Nixon was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States|Midnight Cowboy was released in cinemas worldwide|a coup d'état put Gaddafi in control of Libya |
| 13. | Adele|Rupert Grint|Conor McGregor|Haley Joel Osment|Rihanna|Jack Whitehall |
| 14. | 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 |
| 15. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
| 16. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
| 17. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
| 18. | 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 |
| 19. | Zach Galifianakis|Richard Hammond|Matthew Perry|Gwen Stefani|Jay-Z|Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 20. | 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 |
| 21. | Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook|the Summer Olympics were held in Athens, Greece|Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world at the time, officially opened |
| 22. | Jason Bateman|Cate Blanchett|Jennifer Lopez|Marilyn Manson|Matthew McConaughey|Michael Sheen |
| 23. | Tyra Banks|Kate Beckinsale|Ryan Giggs|Monica Lewinsky|Paul Walker|Pharrell Williams |
| 24. | Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T |
| 25. | The TV miniseries Roots first aired around the world|the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747|Elvis Presley was found dead at his home in Graceland |
| 26. | 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 |
| 27. | Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer married at St Paul's Cathedral|riots in Toxteth (Liverpool), Handsworth (Birmingham), Moss Side (Manchester), and Chapeltown (Leeds) all took place in July|serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", was arrested, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 28. | 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 |
| 29. | Kate Hudson|Adam Levine|Jennifer Love-Hewitt|Jason Momoa|Chris Pratt|Maggie Q |
| 30. | The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria|Israeli airborne commandos freed 103 hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport|racing champion Niki Lauda suffered serious burns in the German Grand Prix |
| 31. | Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France|John Lennon and Yoko Ono conducted their Bed-In at a hotel in Montreal, Quebec| and Neil Armstrong took his historic first steps on the Moon |
| 32. | Magnus Carlsen|Jennifer Lawrence|Margot Robbie|Kristen Stewart|Emma Watson|The Weeknd |
| 33. | John Candy|David Cassidy|Peter Gabriel|Ed Harris|Jay Leno|Julie Walters |
| 34. | Jeff Bezos|Don Cheadle|Chris Cornell|Prince Edward|Earl of Wessex|Bridget Fonda|David Spade |
| 35. | U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.|the first Mario game, Donkey Kong, was released| Muhammad Ali was beaten in his last-ever fight by Trevor Berbick |
| 36. | Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela|"Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole|U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were bombed, killing 224 and injuring more than 4,500 |
| 37. | Josh Duhamel|Geri Halliwell|Alyssa Milano|Thandiwe Newton|Vanessa Paradis|Karl Urban |
| 38. | Jessica Alba|Fernando Alonso|Chris Evans|Roger Federer|Tom Hiddleston|Paris Hilton |
| 39. | 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 |
| 40. | 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? |
| 41. | Cassius Clay was crowned heavyweight champion of the world after beating Sonny Liston|Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Robben Island prison|Walt Disney's Mary Poppins premièred worldwide |
| 42. | 66 were killed in a stairway crush at a Rangers Celtic match in Glasgow, Scotland|in the 'Fight of the Century', Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden|Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida |
| 43. | Tim Allen|Kim Basinger|Michael Bolton|Griff Rhys Jones|Rick Moranis|Leon Spinks |
| 44. | 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 |
| 45. | 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 |
| 46. | Noel Gallagher|Rhys Ifans|Guy Pierce|Liev Schreiber|Keith Urban|Emily Watson |
| 47. | James Bulger was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys in Liverpool, England|the Battle of Mogadishu, dubbed "Black Hawk Down", took place in Somalia|tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed during a match in Hamburg |
| 48. | Jennifer Hudson|Alicia Keys|Beyoncé Knowles|Pitbull|Britney Spears|Justin Timberlake |
| 49. | In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, to the nearest million, how many million more people voted for Joe Biden than Donald Trump? |
| 50. | Chariots of Fire won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture|the Commodore 64 home computer was released|Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. and fell into the Potomac River |
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