Random Trivia Questions With Answers From The Year 1985
What is created for the Internet?
A: The Domain Name System.
Who is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending
the 21-year military rule?
A: Tancredo Neves.
The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the
first time since what year?
A: 1969.
Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of what from the
South
African government?
A: Freedom.
CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in what
country?
A: Lebanon.
Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first what?
A: Autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
After a 12-year-long dictatorship, who is sworn in as the
first democratically elected President of Uruguay?
A: Julio Mar? Sanguinetti.
The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a
blood test for what?
A: AIDS.
Who becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
and de facto leader of the Soviet Union?
A: Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mohamed Al-Fayed buys what London-based department store
company ?
A: Harrods.
Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on what?
A: Birth control after the lion population increases from 2 to 16.
The 57th Academy Awards
are held in Los Angeles with what
film winning Best Picture?
A: Amadeus.
Wrestle Mania debuts where?
A: At Madison Square Garden.
South Africa ends its ban on what?
A: Interracial marriages.
The FBI brings charges against who?
A: The suspected heads of the 5
Mafia families in New York City.
The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to
what?
A: To vote.
Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce
discovery of what?
A: The ozone hole.
Why is John Anthony Walker Jr. arrested by the FBI?
A: For passing classified naval communications to the Soviet Union.
Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for
what?
A: Attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
John Hendricks launches what?
A: The Discovery Channel in the United States.
What movie opens in American theatres and ends up being the
highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States?
A: Back to the Future.
Commodore launches what at the Lincoln Center in New York?
A: The Amiga personal computer.
The first smoking ban banning smoking in what restaurants
in the United States is passed where?
A: In Aspen, Colorado.
Where is Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the
Night Stalker, captured?
A: In Los Angeles.
Pete Rose becomes the all-time hit leader in Major League
Baseball, with his what?
A: 4,192nd hit at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
What does the Space Shuttle Atlantis do?
A: It makes its maiden flight.
What cruise ship is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by 4
heavily armed Palestinian terrorists?
A: Achille Lauro.
What volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people,
including 21,000 killed by lahars in the town of Armero, Colombia?
A: Nevado del Ruiz volcano.
The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in what?
A: 35 newspapers in the United States.
Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of what?
A: Windows, Windows 1.0.
G?ard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles,
is what?
A: Assassinated in London.
Where does American singer, songwriter and actor Ricky
Nelson die?
A: In a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.
What clothing brand is established?
A: Tommy Hilfiger.
DNA is first used in a what?
A: A criminal case.
