| Question |
Answer |
Wrong Answers |
| The Berlin Wall falls. |
1989 | | 84.4% |
| 1982 | | 1.9% |
| 1984 | | 3.4% |
| 1986 | | 5.1% |
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| Ronald Reagan is elected US president for the first time. |
1980 | | 76.4% |
| 1982 | | 9.4% |
| 1984 | | 7.8% |
| 1988 | | 1.3% |
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| John Lennon is assassinated. |
1980 | | 73.2% |
| 1982 | | 11.8% |
| 1984 | | 6.1% |
| 1986 | | 3.6% |
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| The space shuttle Challenger explodes. |
1986 | | 64.9% |
| 1982 | | 5.1% |
| 1984 | | 16.5% |
| 1988 | | 8.3% |
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| The Tiananmen Square Massacre occurs. |
1989 | | 64.2% |
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| The Chernobyl meltdown occurs. |
1986 | | 60.6% |
| 1981 | | 8.9% |
| 1984 | | 17.2% |
| 1989 | | 8.1% |
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| The Falklands War occurs. |
1982 | | 58.5% |
| 1984 | | 20.7% |
| 1986 | | 10.3% |
| 1988 | | 5.1% |
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| The US invades Grenada. |
1983 | | 57.4% |
| 1980 | | 11.3% |
| 1986 | | 19.6% |
| 1989 | | 6.1% |
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| The 'Miracle on Ice' occurs at the Winter Olympics. |
1980 | | 57.2% |
| 1982 | | 12.5% |
| 1984 | | 18.7% |
| 1988 | | 6.4% |
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| The Iran-Iraq War comes to an end. |
1988 | | 53% |
| 1980 | | 8.9% |
| 1983 | | 14.8% |
| 1985 | | 17.6% |
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| Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington. |
1980 | | 52.1% |
| 1983 | | 21% |
| 1986 | | 14.8% |
| 1989 | | 6.7% |
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| Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System. |
1986 | | 51.9% |
| 1980 | | 6.5% |
| 1982 | | 14.9% |
| 1984 | | 21.2% |
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| Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album is released. |
1982 | | 51.5% |
| 1985 | | 30% |
| 1987 | | 10.5% |
| 1989 | | 2.8% |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union. |
1985 | | 49% |
| 1981 | | 20.6% |
| 1987 | | 17.8% |
| 1989 | | 7.3% |
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| Anwar Sadat is assassinated. |
1981 | | 48.7% |
| 1984 | | 19.7% |
| 1987 | | 19.8% |
| 1989 | | 6.2% |
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| The Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska. |
1989 | | 48.1% |
| 1981 | | 9.6% |
| 1983 | | 15% |
| 1986 | | 21.7% |
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| Romania's leader Nicolae Ceaucescu is overthrown and executed. |
1989 | | 46.5% |
| 1982 | | 9.6% |
| 1984 | | 14.2% |
| 1987 | | 24.2% |
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| Soviet jets shoot down Korean Air Flight 007. |
1983 | | 46.3% |
| 1980 | | 11.3% |
| 1986 | | 25.2% |
| 1989 | | 11.5% |
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| Indira Gandhi is assassinated. |
1984 | | 44.5% |
| 1982 | | 23.5% |
| 1986 | | 16.5% |
| 1988 | | 10% |
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| Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland. |
1988 | | 40.5% |
| 1980 | | 6.7% |
| 1983 | | 24.1% |
| 1985 | | 23.3% |
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