Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Apple introduces this PC | Macintosh | 85%
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This charity supergroup is founded | Band Aid | 70%
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This Indian prime minister is assassinated | Indira Gandhi | 61%
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This film based on an Orwell novel is released | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 58%
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This country suffers a dreadful famine | Ethiopia | 52%
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The Winter Olympics are held in this city | Sarajevo | 36%
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This man resigns as prime minister of Canada | Pierre Trudeau | 33%
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This religious figure is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu | 30%
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This country is the first to be booed at in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest | United Kingdom | 30%
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Joe Kittinger is the first person to cross the Atlantic solo in one of these | Hot air balloon | 30%
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This space shuttle takes its first flight | Space Shuttle Discovery | 27%
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Upper Volta changes its name to this | Burkina Faso | 27%
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The Grand Hotel is bombed by the IRA in this British town | Brighton | 21%
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This comedian tragically dies live on TV | Tommy Cooper | 21%
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The London embassy of this country is under siege | Libya | 15%
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This US state is the only one not to give an electoral vote to Ronald Reagan in the US elections | Minnesota | 15%
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This epidemic begins in Los Angeles | Crack epidemic | 12%
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This country becomes the last in Europe to let women vote | Liechtenstein | 9%
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This country faces civil war | Sri Lanka | 3%
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This world's largest theatrical production company opens | Cirque du Soleil | 0%
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