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1980s Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers About 1986 Events

Spain and Portugal enter what?
A: The European Community, which later becomes the European Union.

What does Kodak do after losing a patent battle with Polaroid?
A: Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first what?
A: Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang Díaz.

The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with what planet?
A: Uranus.

What happens to Space Shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after launch?
A: It disintegrates, killing the crew of 7 astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

What animation studio is opened?
A: Pixar.

Who flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule?
A: President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc").

 

The Soviet Union launches what?
A: The Mir space station.

The United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing what?
A: Genocide.

President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after how many years of rule?
A: 20.

Who becomes the first Filipino woman president?
A: Corazon Aquino.

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is what?
A: Assassinated on his way home from the cinema.

United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of what?
A: The Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.

Microsoft Corporation holds its what?
A: Initial public offering of stock shares.

 

The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with what film winning Best Picture?
A: Out of Africa.

Pope John Paul II officially visits what?
A: The Great Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue.

Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults, discovering what?
A: Only a bottle of moonshine.

Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens where?
A: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Who wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway with her song J'aime la vie?
A: Sandra Kim from Belgium.

Who is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica?
A: Óscar Arias.

The Montreal Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup In Calgary against what team?
A: The Flames.

 

At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to do what?
A: To raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

Who pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel?
A: Jonathan Pollard.

Who is elected president of Austria.
A: Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.

Argentina defeats who 3–2 to win the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City?
A: West Germany.

The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after what?
A: An extensive refurbishment.

What happens to Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers in Malaysia?
A: They are executed.

William J. Schroeder, the second artificial heart recipient, dies after how long?
A: 620 days.

 

What is established in Jordan?
A: The Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Desmond Tutu becomes the first what?
A: Black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.

What TV show premieres in syndication?
A: The Oprah Winfrey Show.

United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be what?
A: Removed from office through impeachment.

The New York Mets defeat what team in 7 games in the World Series?
A: Boston Red Sox.

Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in how long?
A: 6 years.

Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming what?
A: The second largest computer company.

 

Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating who?
A: Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas.

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after what?
A: Six years of internal exile.

Matt Groening creates what?
A: The Simpsons family.

 
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