Party Like It's 1995? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Oklahoma City

On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed at 9:02am. They later arrested Timothy McVeigh for his terrorist anti-government attack that killed 168 people and injured many more. McVeigh and his partner, Terry Nichols, were upset about the U.S. government handling of the Waco, Texas, siege and the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. McVeigh detonated a rental truck filled with two tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in front of the building.

Answer: San Francisco 49ers

Led by quarterback Joe Montana, the San Francisco 49ers were the major NFL dynasty of the 1980s. But the California football team continued their dynasty into the next decade. Led by quarterback Steve Young, who threw six touchdown passes in Super Bowl XXIX, they took home their fifth Lombardi Trophy on January 29, 1995.

The final score was 49-26 with the 49ers beating the Chargers who were making their first Super Bowl appearance. The game took place in Miami.

Answer: Japan

The Great Hanshin Earthquake on January 17, 1995, saw its epicenter just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kobe, Japan. The densely populated Japanese city saw the 6.9 earthquake cause massive destruction that took over 6,000 lives, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave the area. Elevated roads collapsed, over 300,000 buildings were destroyed, and fires all over Kobe forced residents to leave the city for safer areas.

Answer: TLC

TLC got their name by combining the three women in the group. T-Boz, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Chilli had their stage name initials to form TLC. Their hits "Waterfalls" and "Creep" each hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and "Red Light Special" reached number two on the chart. All three hits came from TLC's album "CrazySexyCool". On the year-end Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, TLC had two of the biggest hits of 1995 with "Waterfalls" finishing at #2 and "Creep" at #3. "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio was 1995's biggest single.

Answer: Marcia Clark

The infamous murder trial of ex-professional athlete and actor, O.J. Simpson, held Americans glued to their televisions in 1995. Accused of killing his ex-wife and a local restaurant worker, Simpson hired a "Dream Team" of lawyers to represent him. Marcia Clark was not a member of his defense team, she was the lead prosecuting attorney. The others were on O.J.'s legal defense team.

Each of O.J.'s team were well known attorneys who worked on high profile cases. Cochran had previously worked on cases for Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, and Jim Brown. F. Lee Bailey brought the most experience to the defense team. Alan Dershowitz was a Harvard Law attorney who was an expert at constitutional law and would know how to best lead the team if an appeal was needed.

Answer: Val Kilmer

"Batman Forever" had an incredible cast including Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face, Jim Carrey as Riddler, and Nicole Kidman as Chase Meridian. The lead role of Batman was played by Val Kilmer, who is also known for his role as Iceman on "Top Gun". Kilmer had just been in the movie "Tombstone" and impressed director Joel Schumacher.

As a child, Kilmer, a fan of the "Batman" series, actually visited the television studio sets of "Batman" in the 1960s. The 1995 motion picture saw Chris O'Donnell introduced as Batman's sidekick, Robin.

Answer: Toy Story

The original movie, "Toy Story", came out in 1995 and starred the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. The character Buzz Lightyear was famous for his line, "To infinity and beyond!". The Disney movie was developed by Pixar, and instead of animators sketching everything by hand, they had 27 animators working on 400 computer models to create the film. It was the first fully computer animated film. The movie has spawned multiple sequels.

Answer: Microsoft

When you think 1995, many will think of Windows 95. The operating system brought to us by Microsoft changed the ease and capabilities of personal computers at a level never seen before. The plug-and-play technology, the use of a Windows Explorer file manager, and a user friendly interface became the norm in the personal computer space. Bill Gates was the co-founder of Microsoft.

Answer: Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin was the Prime Minister of Israel from 1974 to 1977, and again took on the leadership role in 1992. On November 4, 1995, Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist who was upset about Rabin ceding some territory to the Palestine Liberation Organization in exchange for peace in Israel. The killing took place during a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

Answer: Monkey

In a movie that drew a close parallel to the COVID epidemic in 2020, "Outbreak" saw moviegoers experiencing the what-if scenario of a pandemic scare. In the film, an African white-headed capuchin monkey named Betsy was smuggled into the United States.

The monkey had the Motaba virus, a deadly and quickly spread virus that was killing Americans in California. Rene Russo and Dustin Hoffman played the lead scientists trying to find the monkey and create an antidote to the deadly virus.