The Ultimate 1999 Quiz

So many things happened in 1999, no doubt about that. I was born, for instance. This quiz will test your knowledge of that monumental year to the limits.
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Events
This 'single currency' is established
Euro
This businessman runs over six people in New Delhi
Sanjeev Nanda
Over four tonnes of cocaine bound for this city are seized
Houston
Major earthquakes in these countries kill several thousand
Colombia
Turkey
Taiwan
This team wins the Super Bowl by 34-19
Denver Broncos
This animated sitcom premieres immediately thereafter
Family Guy
Bill Clinton is acquitted by the US Senate after these trials
Impeachment
On a circumnavigation attempt in a hot air balloon, these men spend almost ten days in the air
Colin Prescot
Andy Elson
These countries join NATO
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
This doctor and euthanasia advocate is convicted of murder
Jack Kevorkian
This animated sci-fi series premieres in the US
Futurama
This new province of Canada is carved out of the Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Two teens kill 13 people and themselves in a shooting at this Colorado school (see 'Deaths' table below)
Columbine
This former Yugoslav leader is indicted for war crimes
Slobodan Milošević
This popular music download website is launched
Napster
Television is legalised in this highly conservative Himalayan country
Bhutan
This country decides to include the value of illegal drugs in its GNP
Colombia
John Carpenter (not the director) wins a seven-digit sum in the US version of this game show
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Although easily fixed, this computer issue causes widespread panic
Year 2000 problem
Films
American football is a way of life at a Texas college
Varsity Blues
High school girl is transformed from nerd to beauty
She's All That
Coal miner's son becomes rocket engineer
October Sky
Three workers who hate their job rebel against their boss
Office Space
Psychiatrist's top patient is an insecure Mafia boss
Analyze This
Two step-siblings bet on deflowering their new headmaster's daughter
Cruel Intentions
Computer hacker learns that his whole life has been a dream
The Matrix
Popular teen is forbidden from dating until her big sister does so
10 Things I Hate About You
Newspaper reporter goes undercover in high school to do research for her latest story
Never Been Kissed
Young man seeks not only to become a writer but also to find out the true identity of his father
All About My Mother
US soldier on archaeological expedition awakens evil preserved human
The Mummy
First in the prequel series to a hugely successful sci-fi film
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Humble bookshop owner meets world-renowned film star
Notting Hill
The villain travels back to the 1960s and steals the hero's 'mojo'
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Big-budget Disney adaptation of the human-raised-by-apes story
Tarzan
Layabout law school grad adopts boy and wreaks havoc
Big Daddy
Based on the hugely successful TV series, Canada is erroneously blamed for making four Colorado boys swear like sailors
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Will Smith must save 18th US President Grant from mad inventor
Wild Wild West
Four teens agree to lose their virginity before prom
American Pie
New York doctor seeks sexual encounter. (Released four months after director's death.)
Eyes Wide Shut
Three teens film a documentary about an alleged serial killer but then 'disappear'
The Blair Witch Project
Young boy befriends extraterrestrial robot, but US government agent aims to destroy it
The Iron Giant
Young medium seeks help from pediatric psychiatrist; spirits he sees think they're still alive
The Sixth Sense
Middle-aged man has recurrent infatuation with his daughter's friend
American Beauty
Office worker and soap maker start underground boxing
Fight Club
Puppeteer finds portal into the mind of actor J.M.
Being John Malkovich
Bond 19; oil heiress must be protected from terrorist who can't feel pain
The World Is Not Enough
Sequel to the first entirely computer-animated film
Toy Story 2
Prisoner on death row exhibits magical powers
The Green Mile
American football team must battle corruption and everyday stress
Any Given Sunday
Family adopt anthropomorphic mouse and treat him as if he were the second son
Stuart Little
Sci-fi actors must save Earth and aliens from reptilian dictator
Galaxy Quest
Series of love and forgiveness tales presented Pulp Fiction-style
Magnolia
Toilet cleaner sent to find eccentric millionaire but cheats his way to the top
The Talented Mr Ripley
Deaths
First Aboriginal Australian MP
Neville Bonner
King of Jordan
Hussein
Under the Net author
Iris Murdoch
Film critic with Ebert
Gene Siskel
1951 Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry)
Glenn T. Seaborg
Son of a Preacher Man singer
Dusty Springfield
2001: A Space Odyssey director; his final film is released four months later
Stanley Kubrick
Baseball; Monroe's husband
Joe DiMaggio
Emu puppeteer; fell from his house
Rod Hull
Comedian with J.E. Bartholomew (aka Morecambe)
Ernest Wiseman
Perpetrators of shooting listed in 'Events' table above
Eric Harris
Dylan Klebold
Their victims
Rachel Scott
Daniel Rohrbough
William Sanders
Steven Curnow
Kyle Velasquez
Cassie Bernall
Isaiah Shoels
Matthew Kechter
Lauren Townsend
John Tomlin
Kelly Fleming
Daniel Mauser
Corey DePooter
Crimewatch presenter; shot outside her house
Jill Dando
Managed the 1966 England World Cup team
Alf Ramsey
Dr Sparrow in the Doctor film series (1954-1970)
Dirk Bogarde
Kimberley in Diff'rent Strokes
Dana Plato
Wrote The Giving Tree, A Boy Named Sue and Sylvia's Mother
Shel Silverstein
Blue Moon singer (1949)
Mel Tormé
Founded Monster Raving Loony Party
David Sutch
Greek dictator (1973)
Georgios Papadopoulos
Son of 35th US president
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Wife of above
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Sister of above
Lauren Bessette
King of Morocco
Hassan II
One of the Two Fat Ladies
Jennifer Paterson
Green Door singer (1957)
Frankie Vaughan
NBA Basketball
Wilt Chamberlain
Chicago Bears running back ('Sweetness')
Walter Payton
Cartman's mom in South Park
Mary Kay Bergman
Britain's oldest person
Annie Jennings
Catch-22 author
Joseph Heller
'The Arizona Cowboy' actor and singer
Rex Allen
Q in James Bond
Desmond Llewelyn
Soul singer (Superfly; 1972)
Curtis Mayfield
World's oldest person
Sarah Knauss
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Level 70
Jan 9, 2023
Nunavut is a territory not a province.
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Level 65
Jan 9, 2023
Really good quiz, but it needs more time. I would also suggest a few clarifying things:

Cartman's mom is a reference to the Voice Actress not the character/Mel Torme was nicknamed "The Velvet Fog" and many in the 90s would know that from Seinfeld/Cruel Intentions is a modern update of "Dangerous Liaisons"

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Level 70
Jan 9, 2023
Pretty nice quiz but LOL at "NBA basketball" as the hint for Wilt
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Level 66
Jan 20, 2023
Varsity Blues is about a high school is it not?