90s News Story Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia quiz questions about news stories from the 90s.

90s News Story Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

1. Which David headed the cult which staged a 1993 mass suicide in Waco?
    
2. Who attained the highest altitude for a woman astronaut in 1993?
    
3. Who won Miss World the first time it was held in India?
    
4. Who won Taiwan's first democratic Presidential election?
    
5. Where was the UN Earth summit held in 1992?
    
6. What number TWA flight exploded shortly after take-off in July 1996?
    
7. What was the name of the mother of the Iowa septuplets born in 1997?
    
8. Which Terry was released as hostage in Lebanon on 4 Dec 1991?
    
 
9. Where in the USA was there a total eclipse in 1991?
    
10. What was O J Simpson driving in the famous police chase?
     
11. What was the name of the rocket that was launched containing Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry's ashes?
     
12. Who went on trial for the Oklahoma bombing after Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the crime?
     
13. Who became the youngest head of state of a republic in 1994?
     
14. What was the name of the judge in the Louise Woodward trial?
     
15. Who became a Prime Minister at the age of 78 in 1994?
     
16. Which prominent Nigerian writer was executed in 1996?
     
 
17. What was the name of the car in which Andy Green broke the land speed record in 1997?
     
18. Which 90s European Prime Minister has had the most wives?
     
19. Where is Pavarotti's War Child concert held annually?
     
20. In which city did Princess Diana have her last meeting with Mother Teresa?
     
21. What was the most expensive film to debut on cable television?
     
22. Which Kennedy was due to marry when John F Kennedy Jr's plane crashed on its way to the wedding?
     
23. Who was expelled from the US with the closure of his Oregon commune and died in 1990?
     
 
24. In what year did the USSR pull out of Hungary?
     
25. Who led the rival Christian forces in Beirut in the early 1990s?
     

Daily Trivia Quiz #39 - News from the 90s Trivia Answers

 
1. Koresh.
2. Kathryn Thornton.
3. Irene Skliva.
4. Lee Teng-Hui.
5. Rio.
6. 800
7. Bobbi McCaughey.
8. Anderson.
9. Hawaii.
10. Ford Bronco.
 
11. Pegasus.
12. Terry Nichols.
13. Yaya Jammeh of the GAmbia.
14. Hiller Zobl.
15. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
16. Ken Saro Wiwa.
17. Thrust.
18. Gerhard Schroeder of Germany.
19. Modena, Italy.
20. New York.
 
21. Lolita.
22. Rory.
23. Bhagwan Rajneesh.
24. 1990.
25. Michel Aoun & Samir Geagea.