HISTORY QUIZ NO.73 MORE OF THE 1980'S

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1. Francois Mitterand abolished which form of capital punishment?
GUILLOTINE
2. Which Pop Group?s original name was "Pete Novak and the Heartbeats"?
HERMANS HERMITS
3. What colour wedding gown, veil and train did Paula Yates wear for her wedding to Bob Geldof?
RED/SCARLET
4. In which year did the "1 note" cease to be legal tender in England?
1988
5. In which country was the first permanent bungee jumping site situated?
NEW ZEALAND
6. Which British football club became the first to install an artificial pitch?
QUEENS PARK RANGERS
7. What was the name of the German teenager who landed is plane in Red Square in 1987?
MATHIAST RUSP
8. Which oil tanker ran aground off Brittany in 1987?
AMOCO CADIZ
9. Which country won the first Rugby Union World Cup?
NEW ZEALAND
10. What was the name of the intruder found in the Queens bedroom in 1982?
MICHAEL FAGIN
11. Who was Leonid Brezhnev?s successor in 1984?
YURI ANDROPOV
12. Who was British Defence Secretary at the time of the Falklands war?
JOHN NOTT
13. What year did the Big Bang Liberalisation of the London Stock Exchange take place?
1986
14. What succeeded the British CSE and GCE in 1988?
GCSE
15. Which London market relocated to the Isle of Dogs in 1982?
BILLINSGATE FISH MARKET
16. Which Russian word meaning "Speaking Aloud" was a policy of Mikhail Gorbachev in order liberalise various aspects of Soviet life?
GLASNOT
17. What year was Satellite television introduced into Britain?
1989
18. Which 2 countries joined the EC in 1986?
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
19. In which year did Burma change its name to Myanmar?
1989
20. Which year is associated with the Eurythmics song "Sexcrime"?
1984

[crackers]

8 Exxon Valdez

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6 - Queens Park Rangers

[old moz]

16--glasnov

[godoubleblues]

Q20 1984

[trev]

5 New Zealand

[Kahuna]

1/ Guillotine
8/ Torrey Canyon?
11/Gorbachev

[magpie in the 80's]

8 Exxon Valdez

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6 - Queens Park Rangers

[magpie in the 80's]

16--glasnov

[magpie in the 80's]

Q20 1984

[magpie in the 80's]

5 New Zealand

[magpie in the 80's]

1/ Guillotine
8/ Torrey Canyon?
11/Gorbachev

OTHER 2 K

[godoubleblues]

Q9 - new zealand

[fish]

3 - knowing those two: Black

[dedja]

11 - Yuri Andropov

Trick question as Leonid Brezhnev died in 1982.

[magpie in the 80's]

Q9 - new zealand

[magpie in the 80's]

3 - knowing those two: Black

[magpie in the 80's]

11 - Yuri Andropov

Trick question as Leonid Brezhnev died in 1982.

[fish]

18 - Spain and Greece