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.