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2017 Current Events Trivia

1

Analysts claim the British "Mad cow disease" has been caused by cows which have eaten what?

6

Can you name two Olympic sports which can have both men and women participating equally and simultaneously?

19

When he developed his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein was living in what capital city?

11

The first one of these ever built, complete with luxurious accessories and a piano, was built in Pittsburgh in 1905. The price of admission was 5¢. What was it?

16

In 1783, the French brothers Montgolfier helped people go where no one had gone before, when they invented what?

11

Which two men were convicted on the Oklahoma city bombing?

4

In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to do what?

14

Which Republican candidate lost the 1996 presidential election to Bill Clinton?

16

In the summer of 1998, 3.7 billion people world-wide viewed what televised event?

3

All the parties that signed the 1998 Good Friday Agreement intended to work towards peace... where?

11

In 1963 a British sex scandal almost brought down Harold MacMillan's government when the Secretary of War resigned after a relationship with an expensive call girl who may have passed on British secrets to a Russian secret agent. Name these two people.

16

What international film festival debuted in France in 1946?

15

February 2 is known as Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to popular legend, an early spring is predicted if, on that day, the groundhog does what?

4

What was the Russian name for the first artificial satellite, launched in 1957?

3

It is said that when he returned home after serving as Ambassador to France in 1789, he brought the first pasta-making machine to America. Who was he?