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The Year 1990

3.5
(150 votes)
10 questions
English
1

Which actress was NOT born in 1990?

Shailene Woodley

Jennifer Lawrence

Kristen Stewart

Sarah Hyland

Hard  22% got this right

2

Which country was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on June 21, 1990?

Iran

Indonesia

Portugal

USA

Hard  17% got this right

The Iran - Manji-Rudbar Earthquake left 400,000 people homeless.
3

What did Tim Berners-Lee publish a proposal for in November 1990?

World Wide Web

DVD

MP3s

Text messages

47% got this right

4

What did NASA’s STS-31 mission deploy in April 1990?

Hubble Space Telescope

Astro 2

Broad Band X-ray Telescope

Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer

67% got this right

5

What is the name of the most complete skeleton of a T-Rex, found in August 1990?

Sue

Betsy

Chuck

Rex

Hard  19% got this right

Sue was named after paleontologist Sue Hendrickson, who found the skeleton.
6

Who was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years of imprisonment?

Nelson Mandela

Harry die Strandloper

Robert Sobukwe

Timothy Peter Jenkin

Easy  85% got this right

7

Who resigned as the British Prime Minister in 1990?

Margaret Thatcher

James Callaghan

John Major

Tony Blair

44% got this right

8

Which country declared its independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1990?

Lithuania

Latvia

Poland

Ukraine

Hard  10% got this right

9

Which war began on August 2, 1990?

Gulf War

Civil war in Afghanistan

Ten-Day War

War on Terror

56% got this right

10

What was the highest-grossing film at the US box office in 1990?

Ghost

Home Alone

Pretty Woman

Total Recall

Hard  11% got this right