Q 01/05

In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?

A) 1980

B) 1983

C) 1986

D) 1989

Answer · why

D) 1989

1989: the Wall came down on 9 November during the Peaceful Revolution, after a botched press briefing sent crowds to the crossings and the guards gave...

Q 02/05

In which year did the Titanic sink?

A) 1909

B) 1912

C) 1915

D) 1924

Answer · why

B) 1912

1912: she struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York and sank in the early hours of 15 April.

Q 03/05

In which year was the first iPhone released?

A) 2003

B) 2005

C) 2007

D) 2010

Answer · why

C) 2007

2007: Steve Jobs unveiled it on 9 January as three devices in one, an iPod, a phone and an internet communicator, and it went on sale in June.

Q 04/05

In which year did Apollo 11 land the first humans on the Moon?

A) 1957

B) 1962

C) 1967

D) 1969

Answer · why

D) 1969

1969: with the computer steering Eagle toward a boulder field, Armstrong took over and flew past it, landing on 20 July with under a minute of fuel le...

Q 05/05

In which year did reactor 4 explode at the Chernobyl nuclear plant?

A) 1979

B) 1984

C) 1986

D) 1988

Answer · why

C) 1986

1986: reactor 4 exploded on 26 April during a botched safety test, near the town of Pripyat in what is now Ukraine.