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2017 Current Events Trivia

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Who was the courageous 18-year-old gymnast at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta whose vault on a severely sprained ankle helped ensure a U.S. Gold Medal in gymnastics?

11

What was the name of the hurricane which devastated South Florida in August 1992, especially the Homestead area, south of Miami, leaving 250,000 people homeless?

7

In 1847, Michigan became the first state to abolish this, and since that time, less than half the states have followed. What is it?

6

In 1729, the Chinese banned the smoking of what product?

5

In the summer of 1996, which major company unveiled 100 brand new television commercials during the seventeen days of the Atlanta Olympic game coverage?

16

In April, 1996, Federal Agents took the suspected Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, into custody. Kaczynski had received degrees in mathematics from two Universities and taught at another. Which ones?

7

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.

15

In which year did East and West Germany unify into the current Germany?

12

In 1997 the largest equestrian display ever mounted in Britain, featured over 1,000 horses, in celebrating what event?

4

The custom of fooling friends and relatives on the first of April began in the late 1500's in which country? Holland, France, or Italy?

6

Whom did America's most famous widow, Jackie Kennedy, marry in 1968?

6

What is the name of the ship on which Greenpeace members tried stop the French nuclear tests in the Pacific?

14

The first radio broadcasts, consisting of music and Bible readings, were transmitted in what year? 1906, 1912, or 1916?

3

One day every year, the San Francisco Zoo receives hundreds of prankster phone calls asking for people named Ted E. Bear, Ellie Fant, or Don Key, among others. On which day each year does this occur?

12

What prison in France was stormed by the common people on July 14, 1789?