1979 Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers For Seniors
The United States and the People's Republic of China
establish what?
A: full diplomatic relations.
The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the
dead and injured as a result of what?
A: The Kent State shootings.
Queen releases "Don't Stop Me Now", and it becomes what?
A: One of their most popular singles.
The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations
General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote what?
A: The Year of the Child.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran with his family,
relocating to where?
A: Egypt.
Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released
on parole after spending 19 months where?
A: At a federal prison in Alabama.
Pope John Paul II arrives where?
A: Mexico City for his first visit to Mexico.
What hit TV show debuts on CBS?
A: Dukes of Hazzard.
Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in
San Diego,
killing and wounding killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students and a
police officer. What was her justification?
A: “I don't like Mondays".
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after
what?
A: Nearly 15 years of exile.
Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini take over what?
A: The Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration.
Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since
either was what?
A: Known to science.
German criminal Josef Mengele suffers a
stroke and drowns
while what?
A: Swimming in Bertioga,
Brazil.
The Iranian army mutinies and does what?
A: Joins the Islamic Revolution.
Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran, overthrowing who?
A: Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi.
In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap whom?
A: The American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs.
The Sahara Desert experiences what for 30 minutes?
A: Snow.
Saint Lucia becomes independent of the what?
A: United Kingdom.
The U.S. Voyager 1 space probe photos reveal what?
A: Jupiter's rings.
Philips demonstrates “what” publicly for the first time?
A: The compact disc.
Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in what country?
A: Grenada.
The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia,
is delivered to where?
A: The Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of
Israel do what?
A: Sign a peace treaty.
America's most serious “what” occurs, at Three Mile Island,
Pennsylvania?
A: Nuclear power plant accident.
Iran's government becomes what?
A: An Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
Schoolchildren in the Central African Republic are
arrested, and around 100 killed, for protesting what?
A: Protesting against compulsory school uniforms.
President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a what?
A: Swamp rabbit while fishing in his hometown of Plains,
Georgia, USA.
Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first what?
A: Female prime minister
A Unabomber bomb injures what Northwestern University
graduate student?
A: John Harris.
Dan White receives a light sentence for killing whom?
A: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey
Milk.
The Montréal Canadiens defeat what team 4 games to 1 in the
best-of-seven series, winning the Stanley Cup?
A: New York Rangers.
John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of
the “what” in America after the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1976?
A: The electric chair.
McDonald's introduces what?
A: The Happy Meal.
Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on his first
official, nine-day stay, becoming what?
A: The first Pope to visit a Communist country.
Los Angeles' city council passes the city's first
homosexual rights bill signed without fanfare by whom?
A: Mayor Thomas Bradley.
Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across
what?
A: The English Channel.
Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign what?
A: The SALT II agreement in Vienna.
A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills who?
A: ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa.
Where does the Sony Walkman goes on sale for the first
time?
A: In Japan.
The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit
what planet?
A: Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
ESPN, known as the Entertainment Sports Programming
Network, is what?
A: Launched.
A major gay rights march in the United States takes place
where?
A: In Washington, D.C., involving tens of thousands of people.
