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| 1. | 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? |
| 2. | The PlayStation 2 was released worldwide|an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel near Paris|the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida presidential recount, effectively handing the Presidency to George W. Bush |
| 3. | 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 |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | Kristen Bell|Macauley Culkin|Steven Gerrard|Ryan Gosling|Kim Kardashian|Zachary Levi |
| 6. | The Docklands bombing in London's Canary Wharf District marked the end of an IRA ceasefire|Pokémon Red and Green were released in Japan, the first in the world famous series|Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, then later filmed by a tourist as it crashed into the sea off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel |
| 7. | Richard Branson|Robbie Coltrane|Agnetha Faltskog|Tom Petty|Martin Short|Stevie Wonder |
| 8. | the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union|86 people were killed and more than 400 others injured in a truck attack in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations|the Chicago Cubs ended the longest championship drought in American sports history by winning the World Series for the first time since 1908 |
| 9. | Shirley Bassey|Jane Fonda|Morgan Freeman|Dustin Hoffman|Anthony Hopkins|Jack Nicholson |
| 10. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
| 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 |
| 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. | U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles|English politician Enoch Powell delivered his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech|the Winter Olympics were held in Grenoble, France |
| 14. | Jeff Goldblum|David Hasselhoff|Imran Khan|Liam Neeson|Mr. T|Harvey Weinstein |
| 15. | John Cleese|Paul Hogan|Ralph Lauren|Ian McKellen|Neil Sedaka|Tina Turner |
| 16. | 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 |
| 17. | 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 |
| 18. | 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 |
| 19. | Eddie Cochran|Brian Dennehy|Oliver Reed|Jon Voight|Bill Withers|Natalie Wood |
| 20. | Western Allies began the Berlin Airlift|US President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan|Korea was divided into North and South |
| 21. | Seven Manchester United players were among the 21 killed in the Munich air disaster|Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army as a Private|The Bridge on the River Kwai won seven Academy awards, including Best Picture |
| 22. | Jackie Chan|Prayut Chan-o-cha|Elvis Costello|Howard Stern|Kathleen Turner|Oprah Winfrey |
| 23. | Julie Christie|Bruce Lee|John Lennon|Chuck Norris|Al Pacino|Pelé |
| 24. | 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 |
| 25. | Kevin Costner|Jeff Daniels|Billy Idol|Penn Jillette|Brendan O'Carroll|Bruce Willis |
| 26. | The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale in the USA|British child Madeleine McCann disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal|the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, became the fastest selling book in history |
| 27. | King Edward VIII succeeded, and abdicated, the throne of the United Kingdom|the Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany|the Crystal Palace in London was destroyed by fire |
| 28. | The FIFA World Cup was hosted in Germany|Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet|Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death and executed by hanging |
| 29. | Halley's Comet became visible from the Earth|Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated|the Chernobyl disaster took place |
| 30. | John Candy|David Cassidy|Peter Gabriel|Ed Harris|Jay Leno|Julie Walters |
| 31. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premiered around the world|John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|Cleopatra premiered around the world |
| 32. | 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 |
| 33. | The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy|Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee|Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia for the second time |
| 34. | Richard Nixon died at the age of 81|Tony Blair was elected leader of the British Labour Party|Woodstock celebrated its 25th Anniversary |
| 35. | Emily Blunt|Mo Farah|Chris Hemsworth|Pippa Middleton|Aaron Rodgers|Edward Snowden |
| 36. | 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 |
| 37. | 2001: A Space Odyssey premièred around the world|the Summer Olympics took place in Mexico|Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis |
| 38. | Ireland became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote|Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was born|Volkswagen was publicly accused of the worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests |
| 39. | 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 |
| 40. | 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 |
| 41. | the Aswan High Dam officially opened in Egypt|The United Kingdom and Ireland both switched to decimal currency|Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gained independence from the United Kingdom |
| 42. | 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 |
| 43. | 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 |
| 44. | The UK, Ireland and Denmark joined the EEC|George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship|the Sydney Opera House was opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work |
| 45. | Tony Abbott|Seve Ballesteros|Michael Clarke Duncan|Caroline Kennedy|Paul Merton|Jayne Torvill |
| 46. | George Best|Ted Bundy|Tim Curry|Diane Keaton|Steven Spielberg|Donald Trump |
| 47. | 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 |
| 48. | Luke Evans|Olga Kurylenko|James McAvoy|Rosamund Pike|Pink|Will Young |
| 49. | David Beckham|Judy Greer|Lauryn Hill|Sean Lennon|Tobey Maguire|Kate Winslet |
| 50. | Russell Brand|Fergie|Enrique Iglesias|Jonah Lomu|Anthony McPartlin|Charlize Theron |
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