Trivia Quiz Questions about the Year 1996
King Fahd of
Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to whom?
A: Crown Prince Abdullah, his legal successor, due to illness.
Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is assassinated by what?
A: An Israeli Shabak-planted, bomb-laden cell phone.
One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the
eastern states, killing how many people?
A: More than 150 people.
Where does serious fighting break out between Russian
soldiers and rebel fighters?
A: In Chechnya.
Who becomes Prime Minister of Japan?
A: Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Who is elected president of Portugal?
A: Jorge Sampaio.
Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the what?
A: Palestinian Authority.
France tests the last what?
A: Atomic bomb.
What element is discovered?
A: Copernicium.
Chess computer "Deep Blue" defeats who for the first
time?
A: world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announces his medical recovery in
the national press and assumes power again from whom?
A: His brother, Crown Prince Abdullah.
The Bosnian government declares the end of what?
A: The Siege of Sarajevo.
Where do Chechen rebels attack the Russian government
headquarters?
A: In Grozny.
Who is the new Portuguese president?
A: Jorge Sampaio.
Who is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Australia?
A: John Howard.
What does the British Government announce?
A: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been likely transmitted to
people.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) holds its first direct
elections for what?
A: President.
At the 68th Academy Awards what
movie won Best Picture?
A: Braveheart.
Where is suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski arrested?
A: At his Montana cabin.
At the urging of Yasser Arafat, what does the Palestine
Liberation Organization drop?
A: Its clause calling for the removal of Israel.
What telescope is dedicated in Hawaii?
A: The Keck II telescope.
The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on
the private possession of what?
A: Both automatic and semi-automatic rifles, in response to the Port Arthur
massacre.
The Likud Party, led by whom, wins a narrow victory in the
Israeli general election?
A: Benjamin Netanyahu.
Steffi Graf defeats who in the longest ever women's final
at the French Open, to win her 19th Grand Slam Tennis title?
A: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.
Boris Yeltsin emerges as the winner in Russia's first round
of what?
A: Presidential elections.
Where did thousands of Megawati Sukarnoputri supporters
clash with police?
A: In Jakarta, Indonesia.
The Nintendo 64 video game system is released where?
A: In Japan.
What Journalist is shot and killed in her car just outside
Dublin?
A: Veronica Guerin.
An explosion in a firecrackers factory in Sichuan Province,
China kills how many people?
A: At least 36 and injures another 52.
Lyle and Erik Menendez are sentenced to what?
A: Life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Who is reelected as President of Russia after the second
round of elections?
A: Boris Yeltsin..
Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be what?
A: Successfully cloned from an adult cell, and is born at the Roslin Institute
in Midlothian, Scotland.
Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) does what?
A: Explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
Where were the 1996 Summer Olympics held?
A: In Atlanta, United States.
Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there
may be water where?
A: On one of Jupiter's moons.
Bob Dole was nominated for what?
A: President of the United States.
Who is killed during a gun battle with police?
A: Murtaza Bhutto.
President Bill Clinton signs what?
A: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrey Lukanov, is
what?
A: Assassinated.
News Corporation launches what?
A: The Fox News Channel as a 24-hour news channel to compete against CNN
The New York Yankees win the 1996 World Series, beating
what team 3-2 in game 6 for their first world championship in 18 years?
A: Atlanta Braves.
NASA launches what?
A: The Mars Global Surveyor.
Mother Teresa receives what?
A: Honorary U.S. citizenship.
A bomb explosion in Kaspiysk, Russia, kills 32 people.
Who is elected president of Romania?
A: Emil Constantinescu?
The Republic of Angola officially joins what?
A: The World Trade Organization, as Angola.
President Bill Clinton signs what?
A: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments.
Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests
from how many workers, who shut down services across Israel?
A: 250,000.