In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 22nd December 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Bob Dylan|Alex Ferguson|Gorden Kaye|Ryan O'Neal|Bernie Sanders|Paul Simon |
| 2. | Josh Duhamel|Geri Halliwell|Alyssa Milano|Thandiwe Newton|Vanessa Paradis|Karl Urban |
| 3. | Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds premièred around the world| John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin|The Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire, England |
| 4. | Jarvis Cocker|Whitney Houston|James May|Mike Myers|Brigitte Nielsen|Seal |
| 5. | 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 |
| 6. | Daniel Craig|Celine Dion|Hugh Jackman|Kylie Minogue|Will Smith|Owen Wilson |
| 7. | Snoop Dogg|Missy Elliott|Elon Musk|Winona Ryder|Justin Trudeau|Mark Wahlberg |
| 8. | The Kobe earthquake in Japan killed 6,434 people|the Oklahoma City bombing claimed the lives of 168|O. J. Simpson was found not guilty of double murder in his criminal trial |
| 9. | Lewis Hamilton|Carly Rae Jepsen|Keira Knightley|Rooney Mara|Cristiano Ronaldo|Deontay Wilder |
| 10. | The Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran|an accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, caused a partial meltdown|The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan |
| 11. | Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as President of the United States|Joseph Stalin died after suffering a stroke|the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey |
| 12. | 125 million people watched the final episode of M*A*S*H, the most watched television broadcast in American history|Michael Jackson's Thriller video was aired on MTV for the first time|Return of the Jedi opened in theatres worldwide |
| 13. | 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 |
| 14. | Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces ended the Kosovo War|Abdullah II inherited the throne after King Hussein of Jordan died from cancer |
| 15. | 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 |
| 16. | 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 |
| 17. | The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication was celebrated in New York Harbor|British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25 Motorway| and Mike Tyson won his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas |
| 18. | 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 |
| 19. | Margaret Thatcher became leader of the UK Conservative Party|NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars|U.S. President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts |
| 20. | Northern Rock became the first bank in Europe to be taken into state control due to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis|Dmitry Medvedev replaced Vladimir Putin as President of Russia|Michael Phelps won a record eight Gold Medals at a single Olympics |
| 21. | Rob Gronkowski|Anthony Joshua|Daniel Radcliffe|Daniel Ricciardo|Taylor Swift|Anton Yelchin |
| 22. | Jessica Alba|Fernando Alonso|Chris Evans|Roger Federer|Tom Hiddleston|Paris Hilton |
| 23. | Robert Downey Jr.|Sarah Jessica Parker|J.K. Rowling|Charlie Sheen|Brooke Shields|Ben Stiller|Shania Twain |
| 24. | The Iranian Embassy Siege took place in London|Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe|Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington |
| 25. | 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 |
| 26. | Ferdinand Marcos became "President for Life of the Philippines"|U.S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term|Bobby Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in tennis' first two Battles of the Sexes |
| 27. | 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 |
| 28. | Eddie Cochran|Brian Dennehy|Oliver Reed|Jon Voight|Bill Withers|Natalie Wood |
| 29. | 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 |
| 30. | a massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia started the Kosovo War|the FIFA World Cup was held in France|Google was founded in California by Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
| 31. | U2 released their studio album The Joshua Tree|The Simpsons cartoon first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show|the last remaining prisoner at Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess, was found dead in his cell |
| 32. | Naomi Campbell|Mariah Carey|Tina Fey|Melissa McCarthy|Uma Thurman|Melania Trump |
| 33. | 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 |
| 34. | the FDA approved Viagra for use in erectile dysfunction|Titanic won 11 Academy Awards|the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan |
| 35. | Eric Bana|Ricki Lake|Molly Ringwald|Guy Ritchie|Sam Rockwell|Shaggy |
| 36. | 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 |
| 37. | Elizabeth II ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom|A Streetcar Named Desire won four Oscars|the United States successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands |
| 38. | 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 |
| 39. | George H. W. Bush was televised vomiting into the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister and fainting|Denmark won the UEFA European Football Championship|Queen Elizabeth II gave her annus horribilis speech |
| 40. | Rick Astley|Stephen Baldwin|Helena Bonham Carter|Alan Davies|Patrick Dempsey|Chris Eubank |
| 41. | 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 |
| 42. | Amy Adams|Victoria Beckham|James Blunt|Leonardo DiCaprio|Bear Grylls|Hilary Swank |
| 43. | Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito|the Ayatollah Khomeini died|the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place |
| 44. | 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 |
| 45. | Michael Caine|Jayne Mansfield|David McCallum|Willie Nelson|Joan Rivers|Gene Wilder |
| 46. | Julie Christie|Bruce Lee|John Lennon|Chuck Norris|Al Pacino|Pelé |
| 47. | Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. and fell into the Potomac River|Chariots of Fire won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture|the Commodore 64 home computer was released |
| 48. | Bono|Jeremy Clarkson|Colin Firth|Diego Maradona|Sean Penn|Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| 49. | Raiders of the Lost Ark was released worldwide|U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley Jr.|Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated |
| 50. | John Howard was sworn in for the first time as Prime Minister of Australia|Braveheart won Best Picture at the 68th Academy Awards|an IRA bomb injured 212 in Manchester, England |
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