1989 Quiz

Date	Answer	Clue
January 7		This 124th Emperor of Japan died
January 24		This serial killer is executed by electric chair in Florida
February 24		Ayatollah Khomeini places a $3 million bounty on this author of 'The Satanic Verses'
March 24		This tanker spills 240,000 barrels of oil after running aground in Alaska
April 25		This company introduces (what was at the time) the smallest mobile phone
May 4		U.S. jury convicts this man in the n Iran-Contra affair
May 6		This country wins the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Rock Me' by Riva
May 25		This man is named Soviet President
June 3		The Ayatollah Khomeini dies in this country
June 4		Chinese troops and tanks crush pro-democracy demonstrations in this square in Beijing
June 23		This Tim Burton movie becomes the highest grossing (at the time) film based on a DC comic book.
July 5		Jerry, Kramer, George, and Elaine's NBC Sitcom premieres
August 14		Sega releases this game console on North America
August 24		This MLB player receives a lifetime ban on baseball due to allegations of gambling
August 25		Voyager II passes this planet and its moon Triton
September 21		In South Carolina, this Hurricane makes landfall causing $7 billion in damage
October 6		This Academy Award winning actress from Dangerous and Jezebel died
October 17		This city was struck by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, killing 67 and injuring over 3,000
November 9		East Germany opens checkpoints at this barrier for the first time in decades
November 16		This non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government
December 13		This Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy Academy Award winner for Best Picture is released
December 17		The first full episode of this Matt Groening animated sitcom debuted on FOX
December 20		U.S. troops invade this country
December 22		This winner of the sixth season of American Idol is born

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1989 Quiz

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	quiztaker:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:40 GMT		101 points
	I LOVE the year quizzes, i'd like to see some more of them, preferebly WITHOUT the birth of American Idol winners.

	Eric Maddy:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:40 GMT		1 point
	It's "Bette" Davis.

	grapefruitking:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:44 GMT		25 points
	More people know the American Idol guy than Hirohito? That's... pretty depressing, though not very surprising

	Kicking222:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT		41 points
	Quiztaker took the words out of my mouth- more years, less "Idol" winners. Also, spelling "Tiananmen" took a whole bunch of tries.

	Tower:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT		5 points
	Pop culture is just that. Popular. And it's Bette Davis, not Betty.

	MovieDynamic:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT		-3 points
	"Driving Miss Daisy," while indeed a 1989 picture, would have won the Academy Award in the March of 1990, the following year.

	NickGass:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT		2 points
	1989 rocks!

	Kicking222:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT		1 point
	Oh schnaps, MovieDynamic is totally right- "Rain Man" won in '89.

	Dodge:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT		11 points
	Would have gotten Tianenmen Square, it was just virtually impossible to spell. Anyway, I loved the quiz, and would love more like it!

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	MPG:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 04:56 GMT		7 points
	damn spelling of tianenmen threw me off, i never really knew it was spelled that way, hmm

bfg1118:

Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT

5 points

Tiananmen got me too. Hard to believe it's been 20 years...1989 was a great year!

	yomamma:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:12 GMT		-1 points
	should be "This company introduces (what was at the time)" not "which was at the time"

	Liberal:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT		3 points
	Wow, I looked up Oliver North before I came here. Anyways, if you want to look a bit at this year, Time Magazine did a focus on it. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1902809_1902810_1905361,00.html

	lalalala:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:16 GMT		6 points
	It doesn't say earthquake. It says "This city was struck by a 7.1 in magnitude, killing 67 and injuring over 3,000." A what 7.1 in magnitude?

	fatbeard:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT		9 points
	I love the idea of year quizzes, and there's obviously a lot of possibilities. More in the future would be great

	danzam:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT		8 points
	They named a hurricaine after Bart Simpson's twin brother?

	Burncan:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT		4 points
	Good ol' 1989, the year I was born.

	lazeeeyes:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT		5 points
	Several cities were hit hard by that earthquake on 10/17. I felt it in my own home. While the answer of course is the most well known city in the area, I could've guessed a few others like Santa Cruz, which was near the epicenter, or Oakland, where the most catastrophic and tragic situation occurred. A tougher clue would be to guess the locally media-given name for the earthquake. BTW, sorry for the small fuss, but it is just one big incident in my life I will never forget.

	gttrsnp:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 06:10 GMT		18 points
	I was born during this year. but apparently I wasn't paying much attention.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 06:13 GMT		2 points
	I forgot that many died in the earthquake that year. Great quiz.

	JohnJF:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 06:32 GMT		16 points
	@gttrsnp: I actually found being born in 1989 helpful. I would have never known Ted Bundy if it wasn't for the fact that he was executed the day before my birth (hence being told by some not particularly kind relatives that I somehow am his reincarnation).

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	Chaff:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 07:21 GMT		0 points
	Must remember there are 2 X's in Exxon :-(

	maniacalclown:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT		3 points
	Was the '89 quake the one that interrupted the World Series in Oakland?

	grarap:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 10:42 GMT		1 point
	An incredible year to be alive. Shame that I missed it

	cocky:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 10:48 GMT		3 points
	That was the World Series earthquake. The planet one should have been easy to get, even if you didn't know the moon. Just guess planets, going outward. Nice touch taking Showa for the emporer.

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	ted:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 12:12 GMT		3 points
	@maniacalclown: That was indeed the World Series quake, but the game that night was to be in San Francisco.

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	White:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 13:12 GMT		2 points
	I was born in 1991 so I'm happy with half of these and somehow being able to spell "Tiananmen" right first time! I'd like more of these if there were any other years as eventful as this.

	chrismet:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 13:13 GMT		21 points
	Is googling Tiananmen Square cheating? I knew the answer (honestly) but not the spelling. 18/24.

	quiztaker:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 13:20 GMT		4 points
	@chrismet: Personally I don't think so, looking up speling is fine but looking up answers is not.

	diamondsight:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 13:28 GMT		35 points
	The birth of Jordin Sparks is not a significant event.

	LightningWombat:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 14:02 GMT		0 points
	Batman is an answer in both quizzes so far today!

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