In This Year50 randomly selected In This Year questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 13th April 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Pat Cash|Steve Coogan|Elizabeth Hurley|Mark Labbett|Lennox Lewis|Sam Mendes |
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1965 | |
| 2. | Petr Čech|Anne Hathaway|Kate Middleton|Nicki Minaj|Eddie Redmayne|Matt Smith |
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1982 | |
| 3. | 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 |
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2004 | |
| 4. | Halley's Comet became visible from the Earth|Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated|the Chernobyl disaster took place |
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1986 | |
| 5. | 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 | |
| 6. | 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 |
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2012 | |
| 7. | Orlando Bloom|Maggie Gyllenhaal|Tom Hardy|Chris Martin|Shakira|Donald Trump|Jr. |
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1977 | |
| 8. | Kevin Bacon|Tim Burton|Jamie Lee Curtis|Bruce Dickinson|Sharon Stone|Ice T |
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1958 | |
| 9. | Jeff Bezos|Don Cheadle|Chris Cornell|Prince Edward|Earl of Wessex|Bridget Fonda|David Spade |
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1964 | |
| 10. | David Bowie|Hillary Clinton|Stephen King|Arnold Schwarzenegger|O. J. Simpson|Alan Sugar |
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1947 | |
| 11. | George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton as President of the United States|the Russian Mir space station re-entered the atmosphere to end its 15 year service in the Pacific Ocean|English politician and author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to 4 years in prison |
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2001 | |
| 12. | 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 |
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1998 | |
| 13. | Boris Yeltsin became the first elected president of Russia|an amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police|the Soviet Union was dissolved into 15 independent states |
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1991 | |
| 14. | 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 | |
| 15. | John Carpenter|Prince Charles|Al Gore|George R R Martin|Teller|Andrew Lloyd Webber |
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1948 | |
| 16. | American porn publisher Larry Flynt was shot and paralysed|a poison-filled pellet from an umbrella killed Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London|the Jonestown incident in Guyana ended with a mass murder-suicide claiming 918 lives |
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1978 | |
| 17. | Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate|the Cuban Missile Crisis came, and went|Lawrence of Arabia premièred around the world |
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1962 | |
| 18. | 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 |
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1963 | |
| 19. | Josh Duhamel|Geri Halliwell|Alyssa Milano|Thandiwe Newton|Vanessa Paradis|Karl Urban |
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1972 | |
| 20. | A suicide bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people|Sally Ride became the first American woman in space|Neil Kinnock was elected leader of the British Labour Party |
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1983 | |
| 21. | Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Around the World in 80 Days won Best Picture at the Academy Awards|the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika |
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1957 | |
| 22. | 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|David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
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2010 | |
| 23. | George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as President of the United States|the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, ending a 9 year long war|Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a US$3m bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie |
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1989 | |
| 24. | Concorde made its first commercial flight|James Callaghan replaced Harold Wilson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|at least 46 were killed in the Thammasat University massacre in Bangkok |
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1976 | |
| 25. | 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 | |
| 26. | 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 | |
| 27. | 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 | |
| 28. | Kirstie Alley|Lynda Carter|John Deacon|Mark Harmon|Cheryl Ladd|Stellan Skarsgård |
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1951 | |
| 29. | Aisling Bea|LeBron James|Scarlett Johansson|Trevor Noah|Katy Perry|Mark Zuckerberg |
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1984 | |
| 30. | Aloha Flight 243 landed safely in Maui despite losing a large portion of its upper fuselage in mid-flight|165 were killed in the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea|vocalist Roy Orbison died of a heart attack |
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1988 | |
| 31. | The first DeLorean rolled off the production line|Pope John Paul II was shot and nearly killed|NASA put the Space Shuttle into orbit for the first time |
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1981 | |
| 32. | 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 | |
| 33. | 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 |
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1996 | |
| 34. | Noel Gallagher|Rhys Ifans|Guy Pierce|Liev Schreiber|Keith Urban|Emily Watson |
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1967 | |
| 35. | Stephen King published Carrie, his first novel under his own name|U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation|Turkey invaded Cyprus, occupying 37% of the island |
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1974 | |
| 36. | What retired footballer spent 32 days in jail in March/April after allegedly entering Paraguay with a false passport? |
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Ronaldinho | |
| 37. | 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 |
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1967 | |
| 38. | The comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth|Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing|Diana, Princess of Wales died following a car crash in Paris |
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1997 | |
| 39. | In England, the de Havilland Comet, the world's first jet-powered airliner, made its first flight|the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established|the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic (West and East Germany) were officially founded |
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1949 | |
| 40. | The Australian dollar replaced the Australian pound|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premièred worldwide|Luna 9 and Surveyor 1 achieved the first lunar soft landings |
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1966 | |
| 41. | the Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea|Australian soap opera Home and Away was aired for the first time|Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people |
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1988 | |
| 42. | 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 | |
| 43. | Penélope Cruz|Jimmy Fallon|Seth Green|Eva Mendes|Paul Scholes|Robbie Williams |
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1974 | |
| 44. | Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married|McDonald's opened restaurants in Russia and Mainland China for the first time|a U.S. District Court acquitted Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges |
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1990 | |
| 45. | Sarah Michelle Gellar|Thierry Henry|Emmanuel Macron|Floyd Mayweather, Jr.|Zachary Quinto|Kanye West |
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1977 | |
| 46. | Fidel Castro arrived in Havana and was sworn in as Premier of Cuba|Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic|the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and was granted asylum in India |
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1959 | |
| 47. | Barry Gibb|David Gilmour|Al Green|Liza Minnelli|Keith Moon|Dolly Parton |
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1946 | |
| 48. | 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 |
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1973 | |
| 49. | Barings Bank collapsed after Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion on the Tokyo Stock Exchange|more than 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War|Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv |
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1995 | |
| 50. | Elvis Presley entered the U.S. charts for the first time with Heartbreak Hotel|the film version of The King and I was released, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner|The United Kingdom and France bombed Egypt during the Suez Crisis |
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1956 | |
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