Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1970–1989

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1989	City which ceased to be divided by a wall	Berlin	99%
1983	Singer who did the "moonwalk" for the first time	Michael Jackson	94%
1974	Scandal which forced Richard Nixon to resign as U.S. President	Watergate	84%
1979	Country where Ayatollah Khomeini seized power	Iran	83%
1982	War which pitted the United Kingdom against Argentina	{Falklands} War	81%
1987	British P.M. who won a rare third term in office	Margaret Thatcher	80%
1985	Reformer who became leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	76%
1975	Country in which Pol Pot became dictator	Cambodia	75%
1981	Political leader who quipped "Honey, I forgot to duck" after being shot in an assassination attempt	Ronald Reagan	71%
1977	Singer who "left the building" for the last time	Elvis Presley	70%
1986	Space shuttle which exploded	Challenger	65%
1984	City which hosted the Summer Olympics, boycotted by the Soviet Union	Los Angeles	61%
1970	Country where the Aswan Dam was completed	Egypt	59%
1971	Sport in which US athletes competed against Chinese athletes in an effort to reduce political tensions	Table tennis	59%
1976	Canadian tower which became the highest free-standing structure in the world	CN Tower	54%
1980	Volcano which erupted in Washington state	Mount St. Helens	54%
1973	Jewish holy day on which several neighboring countries invaded Israel	Yom Kippur	54%
1978	Beverage which over 900 followers of Jim Jones mixed with poison and used to commit suicide	Flavor Aid	52%
1988	Country responsible for the crash of Pan Am 103 into Lockerbie, Scotland	Libya	51%
1972	Country which fought the second "Cod War" against the UK	Iceland	46%