1991 Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
The first anti-stalking law, passed in 1990, goes into
effect in what state?
A: California.
Dublin begins its year as the what?
A: European Capital of Culture.
In eastern El Salvador, Salvadoran rebels shoot down a
United States Army helicopter and do what?
A: Execute the 2 surviving members of its 3-man crew.
The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to do
what?
A: To condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
The Congress of the United States passes a resolution
authorizing what?
A: The use of military force to liberate
Kuwait.
Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop what?
A: Lithuanian independence.
Operation Desert Storm begins with what?
A: Air strikes against Iraq.
What volcano erupts on Iceland?
A: Hekla.
A Scud attack on Tel Aviv injures how many people?
A: 15.
Who formally takes the throne as
King of Norway, succeeding
his father?
A: Harald V.
Where does a deadly earthquake kill at least 1,200 people?
A: In Pakistan and Afghanistan.
A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from doing what?
A: Assisting in suicides.
Ground troops cross the
Saudi Arabian border and enter
Kuwait, thus starting the what?
A: The ground phase of the war.
On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces
what?
A: The withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
An amateur video captures the beating of whom?
A: Motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
The United States Department of Justice announces what?
A: That Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez
oil spill in Alaska.
What treaty is signed between the American and Canadian
governments?
A: The Acid Rain Treaty of 1991.
President of Poland Lech Wałęsa becomes the first what?
A: Polish president to ever visit the USA
What is launched on cable television in its current format?
A: Comedy Central.
What senator and 6 other people are killed when a
helicopter collides with their plane over Merion,
Pennsylvania?
A: John Heinz of Pennsylvania.
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares
what?
A: Independence from the Soviet Union.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above "what" for
the first time ever?
A: 3000.
At the age of 36, who becomes the youngest-ever Prime
Minister of Finland?
A: Esko Aho.
The first Starbucks Coffee outlet is opened in what state?
A: California.
Nepal holds its first multiparty legislative
election since
what year?
A: 1959.
Winnie Mandela is convicted of what?
A: kidnapping. On May 14, she is sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Space Shuttle Columbia carries what into orbit?
A: The Spacelab.
Who is elected President of Russia, the largest and most
populous of the 15 Soviet republics?
A: Boris Yeltsin.
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts in the second
largest terrestrial eruption of the what?
A: 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or
not his death was caused by what?
A: Arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of
arsenic is found.
The first Sonic the Hedgehog game is published by whom?
A: Sega.
Clarence Thomas is nominated to replace whom as the
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
A: Thurgood Marshall.
Graf and Michael Stich win the what?
A: Wimbledon Tennis Championships.
In response to the end of apartheid, what does the
International Olympic Committee do?
A: Readmits South Africa to the Olympics.
In Israel, a judge investigating a 1990 incident outside a
mosque in Jerusalem in which at least 17 Palestinians were killed rules what?
A: That Israeli police provoked the incident.
Ian Baker-Finch wins the 1991 what?
A: Open Championship.
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after what is
found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin, apartment?
A: The remains of 11 men and boys.
The United States and the Soviet Union sign the START I
treaty limiting what?
A: Strategic nuclear weapons.
Sergey Bubka breaks the world record for men's what?
A: Pole vault.
Estonia declares its independence from what?
A: The Soviet Union.
Boris Yeltsin bans and dissolves what?
A: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union.