Question: Which country was the first to make catalytic converters compulsory?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Christa McAuliffe died in an accident in what type of vehicle in 1986?
Answer: Space Shuttle

Question: Who was Benazir Bhutto's Father who was executed in 1988?
Answer: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

Question: Who signed the INF Treaty in 1987?
Answer: Usa & Ussr

Question: Which capital city was the scene of a major summit between Reagan and Gorbachev in 1986?
Answer: Reykjavik

Question: Which drink did the Coca Cola Company launch in 1982?
Answer: Diet Coke

Question: Which telescope was launched into space on board a space shuttle in 1990?
Answer: Hubble

Question: Jonas Salk developed the Salk vaccine against which disease?
Answer: Polio

Question: Which of London's four airports is the only one to be connected to the city Underground system?
Answer: Heathrow

Question: Which two men walked on the Moon on the United States' second Moonmisson?
Answer: Charles Conrad & Alan Bean

Question: Who constructed the world's first laser?
Answer: Theodore Maiman

Question: Which Wisconsin salesman developed a safety razor in 1901?
Answer: King Camp Gillette

Question: In which country were Daewoo cars originally produced?
Answer: Korea

Question: Which toy company did Ruth and Elliot Handler found?
Answer: Mattel

Question: Which country was the first in the world to introduce a driving test?
Answer: France

Question: Who launched the short-lived Skytrain air service?
Answer: Freddie Laker

Question: What did Guinness adopt as its trademark in the 60s?
Answer: Harp

Question: Which Andre built the first factory to mass-produce rubber tires?
Answer: Michelin

Question: Which film actor became mayor of Carmel, California in 1986?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: Which pop artist died in New York in1987?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: How did James F Fixx, promoter of jogging for good health, die in 1984?
Answer: Heart attack while jogging

Question: How was Jean Claude Duvalier known before he ws exiled in 1986?
Answer: Baby Doc

Question: Where did teenager Matthias Rust land his plane in 1987 much to the surprise of the country's authorities?
Answer: Red Square

Question: From which UK airport did Virgin Atlantic flights first depart for New York-Newark?
Answer: London Gatwick

Question: Great Briton fought which country over the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which oil tanker disastrously ran aground off 'Brittany in 1987?
Answer: Amoco Cadiz

Question: Where did the US side of the Band Aid concert take place?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Natan Sharansky was released from prison in the USSR to begin a new life where?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which country celebrated its bicentenary in 1988?
Answer: Australia

Question: The mother of which Monkee invented typewriter correction fluid?
Answer: Mike Nesmith

Question: Who performed the world's first open-heart operation?
Answer: J Gibbon

Question: What type of aircraft is the Hawker Siddley Harrier?
Answer: Jump Jet

Question: What does Volkswagen actually mean?
Answer: People's car

Question: What does the Transalaska Pipeline System transport?
Answer: Oil

Question: Which American company pioneered electric ignition in motor cars?
Answer: Cadillac

Question: Who invented the world's first photocopier?
Answer: Chester Carlson

Question: Where were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games held?
Answer: Salt Lake City

Question: Who wrote the line, "Do not go gentle into that good night?
Answer: Dylan Thomas

Question: What is Jennifer Jason Leigh's real name?
Answer: Jennifer Morrow

Question: Which ex-tennis player has run a foundation for terminally ill children through the 90s?
Answer: Andrea Jaeger

Question: Which musical instrument was found in Bonnie & Clyde's car after they were shot?
Answer: Saxophone

Question: Which album was said to have reflected the end of Bob Dylan's marriage?
Answer: Blood On The Tracks

Question: What was the only Fleetwood Mac track to top the singles charts in the 70s?
Answer: Dreams

Question: Which liner carried the first ever newspaper to be published in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Etruria

Question: Which hospital saw the first ever operation to give an artificial heart?
Answer: Pennsylvania Hospital

Question: Who was the defending champion when Billie Jean King first won Wimbledon singles?
Answer: Margaret Smith

Question: In which country did Argentina first win soccer's World Cup?
Answer: Argentina (1978)

Question: To the nearest million, what was the population of the USA in 1910?
Answer: 92

Question: What did Diana Ross advertise with daughter Tracee in the early 90s?
Answer: Gap

Question: In Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which country did the dictator rule?
Answer: Tomania

Question: What is Joan Collin's middle name?
Answer: Henrietta

Question: Which President wrote Why England Slept about the rise of Fascism?
Answer: John F. Kennedy

Question: Where was the first H bomb exploded in 1952?
Answer: Eniwetok

Question: Which hairdresser said, ""The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary?"
Answer: Vidal Sassoon

Question: Which space probe sent pictures from Mars in 1965?
Answer: Mariner 4

Question: What was the name of the US army airplane which flew a record 150 hours non-stop in 1929?
Answer: Question Mark

Question: In what year did regular Boeing 707 flights begin across he Atlantic?
Answer: 1958

Question: How many Billboard solo NO 1's did ex-Beatle Ringo Starr have?
Answer: Two

Question: In what year did the New York subway open?
Answer: 1903

Question: Which country does the airline Aero Lloyd come from?
Answer: Germany

Question: In which decade was the Benjamin Franklin suspension bridge opened?
Answer: 1920s

Question: How many prisoners were left in Alcatraz just before it closed?
Answer: 27

Question: What was the name of the first weather satellite?
Answer: Tiros

Question: Who directed the movie Trading Places?
Answer: John Landis

Question: Who wrote the karaoke classic line, ""And now the end is near?"
Answer: Paul Anka - in My Way

Question: Where in Australia was swashbuckling Errol Flynn born?
Answer: Hobart

Question: Vehicles from which country use the international registration letters KWT?
Answer: Kuwait

Question: At what weight did boxer Chris Eubank win the WBO title in 1990?
Answer: Middleweight

Question: Who featured with Bobby Brown on the No 1 She Ain't Worth It?
Answer: Glenn Medeiros

Question: What was Elvis Presley's first album which did not have his name in the title?
Answer: King Creole

Question: What distance is the Breeders' Cup Classic?
Answer: One and a quarter miles

Question: Where was golf's 1977 US Open held?
Answer: Tulsa Oklahoma

Question: Who shared world amateur baseball championship with USA in1973?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Who lost the first Super Bowl of the 70s?
Answer: Minnesota Vikings

Question: How many times did the New York Yankees win the World Series in the 1970s?
Answer: Twice

Question: Which team in the 80s won the Super Bowl by the biggest margin?
Answer: Chicago Bears

Question: Where did Maurice Green set his 9.79 seconds for the 100m in 1999?
Answer: Athens

Question: Who won baseball's first World Series of the 50s?
Answer: New York Yankees

Question: Which American was the youngest Olympic medalist when she won in Helsinki in 1952?
Answer: Barbara Jones

Question: Who was Jermaine O'Neal playing against when he made his debut in 1996?
Answer: Denver Nuggets

Question: To the nearest 1,000 how many rides did the legendary Willie Shoemaker take?
Answer: 40,000

Question: Who was the second American to win the Indianapolis 500 four times?
Answer: Al Unser Sr

Question: Who was the Super Bowl MVP in 1979 and 1980.
Answer: Terry Bradshaw

Question: Who was the aerobatic world champion in 1988?
Answer: Henry Haigh

Question: Where were the first World Athletics Championships held?
Answer: Helsinki