The Ultimate 2001 Quiz

Calcutta changes its spelling to this

This powerful media conglomerate is formed. (Clue: Dial-up + Zeit + Shield)

The NEAR Shoemaker probe lands on Eros. What is Eros?

This disease starts to devastate the British countryside

Ten people die in a train crash in this Yorkshire village near Selby

This Russian space station is destroyed after 15 years

This country's royal family is almost completely wiped out in a massacre

This pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing system is shut down

Nearly 3,000 people are murdered in terrorist attacks on these buildings

At the same time, United Airlines Flight 93 is crashed in this Pennsylvania village

"White trash" man's redeeming qualities become more apparent as he searches for his parents

Based on the popular 1970 cartoon, a girl group realise their songs are disseminating subliminal messages

Woman hopelessly seeks love within a year and keeps a journal about it

Tom Green's critically-panned "masterpiece." A slacker wants to be a professional cartoonist and falsely accuses his father of abusing his brother

Sequel to the 1999 film about an evil preserved human

Green ogre must rescue a princess to get his land back

Tora! Tora! Tora!, only (A) directed by Michael Bay, (B) inferior, and (C) historically inaccurate

Set in 1900, a young poet and writer falls for a cabaret actress

Based on the best-selling 1996 video game, our heroine tries to obtain ancient artifacts from the Illuminati

The first in a long-running series of crime action films starring the late Paul Walker

Also based on a video game, the characters are very realistic CGI

Sorority girl tries to win her boyfriend back by getting a doctorate in law

Astronaut crash-lands on Ashlar, an exoplanet dominated by Pan troglodytes

Shy teenager learns that she is heir to a European throne

Sequel to the 1999 film about a virginity-losing pact, Stifler et al. attempt to have the greatest summer party ever

Mariah Carey's reviled vanity project (she blamed the attacks on its failure)

Narcissistic model is brainwashed into an assassination attempt

Human child enters top-secret "scaring" facility and must be returned home

First Harry Potter film

Two friends plan to steal $150 million from a casino owner (the original, from 1960, starred the Rat Pack)

In Middle-earth, Dark Lord Sauron seeks the One Ring

Oscar winner, based on the life of Nobel Laureate John Nash

A schoolboy with an exceptional IQ must save all of Earth's parents from egg-like aliens

During the Somali Civil War, the US military launches a raid to capture a militia leader

Ms. Balbricker in Porky's

Actor and husband of Judi Dench

President of the DRC; murdered by his own bodyguard

Co-inventor of the first stored-program computer

NASCAR driver; the fourth to die in a nine-month period

Arguably the greatest batsman ever

One member of the Mamas and the Papas

Joseph Barbera's fellow animator

Lead singer of the Ramones

Wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Magic Moments singer

King of Nepal

Queen of Nepal

Younger brother of the above

Sister of the above

The King's brother

The King's eldest sister

The King's middle sister

Husband of the above

The King's first cousin

Elder son of the above (later King); perpetrator of the attack

Guns of Navarone actor

Destroyed a federal government building in 1995

Delta blues guitarist

Best Supporting Actor, 1955 (Mister Roberts)

Creator of the Nashville sound; played guitar on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel

Producer/adviser for John Peel; previously trumpeter for the Alan Price Set

R&B singer (Age Ain't Nothing but a Number); a certain Robert Kelly illegally married her

Performed the first heart transplant (1967)

A Summer Place actor

The original Yellow Power Ranger

Diminutive radio personality who worked with Howard Stern

Co-creator and producer of Frasier; died in attacks mentioned above

Commentator for CNN and Fox News; her husband Ted was the US Solicitor-General

Photographer and widow of Anthony Perkins

Queen Elizabeth II's racing manager (his death was the same day as, but completely unrelated to, the attacks)

Moral campaigner who wanted to clean up TV

The second Beatle

New Zealand yachtsman murdered by Brazilian pirates

Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister