Statistics for The Ultimate 1999 Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 403 times
The average score is 19 of 106

Answer Stats

		Answer	% Correct
Events	This 'single currency' is established	Euro	96%
Events	Television is legalised in this highly conservative Himalayan country	Bhutan	54%
Events	Two teens kill 13 people and themselves in a shooting at this Colorado school (see 'Deaths' table below)	Columbine	53%
Events	Although easily fixed, this computer issue causes widespread panic	Year 2000 problem	52%
Films	Big-budget Disney adaptation of the human-raised-by-apes story	Tarzan	50%
Events	This animated sitcom premieres immediately thereafter	Family Guy	47%
Events	Major earthquakes in these countries kill several thousand \| This country decides to include the value of illegal drugs in its GNP	Colombia	46%
Films	Office worker and soap maker start underground boxing	Fight Club	45%
Deaths	Baseball; Monroe's husband	Joe DiMaggio	42%
Events	This popular music download website is launched	Napster	41%
Events	This new province of Canada is carved out of the Northwest Territories	Nunavut	41%
Films	Prisoner on death row exhibits magical powers	The Green Mile	41%
Films	Computer hacker learns that his whole life has been a dream	The Matrix	39%
Events	John Carpenter (not the director) wins a seven-digit sum in the US version of this game show	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?	39%
Films	Young medium seeks help from pediatric psychiatrist; spirits he sees think they're still alive	The Sixth Sense	37%
Films	Middle-aged man has recurrent infatuation with his daughter's friend	American Beauty	36%
Films	Four teens agree to lose their virginity before prom	American Pie	36%
Deaths	2001: A Space Odyssey director; his final film is released four months later	Stanley Kubrick	36%
Films	Family adopt anthropomorphic mouse and treat him as if he were the second son	Stuart Little	36%
Films	Three teens film a documentary about an alleged serial killer but then 'disappear'	The Blair Witch Project	36%
Events	This animated sci-fi series premieres in the US	Futurama	35%
Films	Sequel to the first entirely computer-animated film	Toy Story 2	35%
Events	Bill Clinton is acquitted by the US Senate after these trials	Impeachment	33%
Films	Humble bookshop owner meets world-renowned film star	Notting Hill	33%
Deaths	Son of 35th US president	John F. Kennedy Jr.	32%
Films	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	32%
Deaths	Wife of above	Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy	28%
Events		Poland	28%
Films	US soldier on archaeological expedition awakens evil preserved human	The Mummy	28%
Films	First in the prequel series to a hugely successful sci-fi film	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace	27%
Deaths	Son of a Preacher Man singer	Dusty Springfield	26%
Events	This former Yugoslav leader is indicted for war crimes	Slobodan Milošević	25%
Films	Will Smith must save 18th US President Grant from mad inventor	Wild Wild West	25%
Events	These countries join NATO	Czech Republic	24%
Events		Hungary	24%
Events	This doctor and euthanasia advocate is convicted of murder	Jack Kevorkian	24%
Deaths	Film critic with Ebert	Gene Siskel	22%
Events		Turkey	22%
Films	Puppeteer finds portal into the mind of actor J.M.	Being John Malkovich	21%
Films	Popular teen is forbidden from dating until her big sister does so	10 Things I Hate About You	20%
Films	Psychiatrist's top patient is an insecure Mafia boss	Analyze This	20%
Films	Three workers who hate their job rebel against their boss	Office Space	19%
Films	The villain travels back to the 1960s and steals the hero's 'mojo'	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	18%
Deaths	King of Jordan	Hussein	18%
Deaths	Catch-22 author	Joseph Heller	17%
Films	High school girl is transformed from nerd to beauty	She's All That	17%
Films	Young boy befriends extraterrestrial robot, but US government agent aims to destroy it	The Iron Giant	17%
Events	This team wins the Super Bowl by 34-19	Denver Broncos	16%
Films	New York doctor seeks sexual encounter. (Released four months after director's death.)	Eyes Wide Shut	16%
Films	Two step-siblings bet on deflowering their new headmaster's daughter	Cruel Intentions	15%
Deaths	Comedian with J.E. Bartholomew (aka Morecambe)	Ernest Wiseman	15%
Films	Newspaper reporter goes undercover in high school to do research for her latest story	Never Been Kissed	15%
Deaths	Wrote The Giving Tree, A Boy Named Sue and Sylvia's Mother	Shel Silverstein	15%
Films	Bond 19; oil heiress must be protected from terrorist who can't feel pain	The World Is Not Enough	11%
Films	American football is a way of life at a Texas college	Varsity Blues	11%
Films	American football team must battle corruption and everyday stress	Any Given Sunday	10%
Events	Over four tonnes of cocaine bound for this city are seized	Houston	10%
Deaths	Chicago Bears running back ('Sweetness')	Walter Payton	10%
Films	Layabout law school grad adopts boy and wreaks havoc	Big Daddy	9%
Deaths	Kimberley in Diff'rent Strokes	Dana Plato	9%
Deaths		Dylan Klebold	9%
Deaths	Crimewatch presenter; shot outside her house	Jill Dando	9%
Films	Coal miner's son becomes rocket engineer	October Sky	9%
Deaths	Managed the 1966 England World Cup team	Alf Ramsey	8%
Deaths	Perpetrators of shooting listed in 'Events' table above	Eric Harris	8%
Films	Sci-fi actors must save Earth and aliens from reptilian dictator	Galaxy Quest	8%
Deaths	Emu puppeteer; fell from his house	Rod Hull	8%
Deaths	Sister of above	Lauren Bessette	7%
Events		Taiwan	7%
Deaths	NBA Basketball	Wilt Chamberlain	7%
Deaths	Soul singer (Superfly; 1972)	Curtis Mayfield	5%
Deaths	Founded Monster Raving Loony Party	David Sutch	4%
Deaths	Q in James Bond	Desmond Llewelyn	4%
Deaths	King of Morocco	Hassan II	4%
Deaths	Their victims	Rachel Scott	4%
Deaths	Greek dictator (1973)	Georgios Papadopoulos	2%
Deaths		John Tomlin	2%
Deaths		Lauren Townsend	2%
Deaths	Blue Moon singer (1949)	Mel Tormé	2%
Deaths	First Aboriginal Australian MP	Neville Bonner	2%
Events	This businessman runs over six people in New Delhi	Sanjeev Nanda	2%
Deaths		William Sanders	2%
Films	Young man seeks not only to become a writer but also to find out the true identity of his father	All About My Mother	1%
Events		Andy Elson	1%
Deaths	Britain's oldest person	Annie Jennings	1%
Deaths		Cassie Bernall	1%
Events	On a circumnavigation attempt in a hot air balloon, these men spend almost ten days in the air	Colin Prescot	1%
Deaths		Corey DePooter	1%
Deaths		Daniel Mauser	1%
Deaths		Daniel Rohrbough	1%
Deaths	Dr Sparrow in the Doctor film series (1954-1970)	Dirk Bogarde	1%
Deaths	Green Door singer (1957)	Frankie Vaughan	1%
Deaths	1951 Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry)	Glenn T. Seaborg	1%
Deaths	Under the Net author	Iris Murdoch	1%
Deaths		Isaiah Shoels	1%
Deaths	One of the Two Fat Ladies	Jennifer Paterson	1%
Deaths		Kelly Fleming	1%
Deaths		Kyle Velasquez	1%
Films	Series of love and forgiveness tales presented Pulp Fiction-style	Magnolia	1%
Deaths	Cartman's mom in South Park	Mary Kay Bergman	1%
Deaths		Matthew Kechter	1%
Deaths	'The Arizona Cowboy' actor and singer	Rex Allen	1%
Deaths	World's oldest person	Sarah Knauss	1%
Deaths		Steven Curnow	1%
Films	Toilet cleaner sent to find eccentric millionaire but cheats his way to the top	The Talented Mr Ripley	1%