1995 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected,
confirming what?
A: The existence of rogue waves.
The fourth Star Trek TV series, Voyager, premieres on
what?
A: UPN.
Prodigy online service offers what?
A: Access to the World Wide Web.
A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as a what?
A: An incoming attack.
President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend
a $20 billion loan to help what country avert financial collapse?
A: Mexico.
A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the
Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with what?
A: Genocide and crimes against humanity.
Who lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the
first person to make a solo flight across the
Pacific Ocean in a balloon?
A: Steve Fossett.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at
4,003.33 marking the first time the Dow has closed over what?
A: 4,000.
Who is sworn in as President of Uruguay for his second
term?
A: Julio María Sanguinetti.
The first search engine service is founded. What is its
name?
A: Yahoo!
Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to do
what?
A: Ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle.
Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the
last state to do what?
A: Approve the abolition of slavery.
Who murders Mexican American Tejano pop singer Selena?
A: Her former employee, Yolanda Saldívar.
A Unabomber bomb kills whom in Sacramento,
California?
A: lobbyist Gilbert Murray.
Who is elected president of France?
A: Jacques Chirac.
What country wins the ice hockey world championship?
A: Finland.
More than 170 countries agree to extend "what"
indefinitely and without conditions?
A: Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
What team wins the America's Cup in San Diego, beating
Stars and Stripes 5–0?
A: New Zealand.
Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after
doing what?
A: Falling from his horse in a riding competition.
The Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes what?
A: Capital punishment in South Africa.
French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of
what?
A: Nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
The IOC selects what city to host the 2002 Winter
Olympics?
A: Salt Lake City.
The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored
Detroit Red
Wings to win their first what?
A: Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.
South Africa wins the what?
A: Rugby World Cup.
Lisa Clayton completes her what?
A: 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with what for the first time?
A: the Russian Mir space station.
Who is freed from house arrest?
A: Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi
The Nasdaq Composite index closes above what for the first
time?
A: the 1,000 mark.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires what into the
waters north of Taiwan?
A: Missiles.
Hundreds in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Washington, D.C., and
Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of what?
A: The dropping of the atomic bomb.
American millionaire Steve Forbes announces what?
A: His candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of what?
A: Double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald
Goldman.
The Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season
game by defeating what team?
A: The New York Jets at Clemson Memorial Stadium in
South Carolina.
What march is held in Washington, D.C.?
A: The Million Man March.
Who is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv?
A: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
What film became the first-ever fully computer animated
movie?
A: Toy Story.
NASA's Galileo Probe enters what?
A: Jupiter's atmosphere.
The final original "what" is published.
A: Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
