A Slice in Time: 1990s World History

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1. 1990: On March 1 the Royal New Zealand Navy stopped its daily ration of what commodity to sailors? Rum Cigarettes Condoms Penicillin

2. 1991: What ceased to exist on December 31? Pluto's designation as a planet All-male colleges in the University of Cambridge The USSR Michael Jackson's original nose

3. 1992: A tribute rock concert benefitting AIDS research was telecast live from London's Wembley Stadium in April to more than 1 billion people world-wide. In whose memory was the concert held? Arthur Ashe Freddie Mercury Elizabeth Glaser Peter Allen

4. 1993: Deranged fan Gunter Parche rushed onto the court during the quarter-finals of a tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany and stabbed which #1 ranked player in the back? Steffi Graf Monica Seles Pete Sampras Ivan Lendl

5. 1994: In February, this famous painting by Norwegian Edvard Munch was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo on the same day as the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer. Name the artwork. "Guernica" "The Scream" "Christina's World" "Nude Descending a Staircase"

6. 1995: In March the religious cult Shinrikyo Aum took credit for releasing a deadly poison into the Tokyo subway system resulting in the immediate death of 12 passengers and as many as 5,000 people ultimately affected. What was the chemical that was used? Sarin Anthrax Ricin Botulin

7. 1996: World chess champion Garry Kasparov of Russia lost one game (but eventually won the match) against which opponent(s)? 10 year-old prodigy Jiang Qing IBM Deep Blue computer Bobby Fischer Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

8. 1997: On August 31 Diana, Princess of Wales, died tragically in a famous car accident in the Pont de l'Alma Tunnel in Paris. Where is "The People's Princess" buried? The crypt beneath St. Paul's Cathedral in London Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey A private island in Althorp Park, her family's ancestral estate The Spencer family vault in Great Brigton, Northamptonshire in England

9. 1998: On March 27 the US Food and Drug Administration approved the pharmaceutical compound sildenafil citrate for use and some women still haven't forgiven them. By what brand name is the drug more commonly known? Rohypnol ("roofies") Xanax Viagra Lipitor

10. 1999: On New Year's Eve, The Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E) broadcast "The Biography of the Millennium: 100 People, 1000 Years." Who was ranked as the most influential person of the second thousand years? (Hint: He has been called the father of the communications revolution). Albert Einstein Charles Darwin Johannes Gutenberg Isaac Newton