Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1970–1989

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1989	This city ceases to be divided by a wall	Berlin	99%
1983	This singer "moonwalks" for the first time	Michael Jackson	94%
1979	Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power in this country	Iran	86%
1974	President Nixon is forced to resign due to this scandal	Watergate	86%
1982	The U.K. fights a war with this country over the Falkland Islands	Argentina	85%
1987	This British P.M. wins a rare third term in office	Margaret Thatcher	82%
1985	This reformer becomes leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	78%
1975	Pol Pot becomes dictator of this country	Cambodia	76%
1981	This political leader quips "Honey, I forgot to duck" after being shot in an assassination attempt	Ronald Reagan	73%
1977	This singer "leaves the building" for the last time	Elvis Presley	72%
1986	This space shuttle explodes	Challenger	65%
1984	The Soviet Union boycotts the Summer Olympics which are held in this city	Los Angeles	63%
1970	The Aswan Dam is completed in this country	Egypt	61%
1971	Relations improve as American athletes visit China to play this sport	Table Tennis	61%
1980	This volcano violently erupts in Washington State	Mount St. Helens	56%
1976	This Canadian tower becomes the highest free-standing structure in the world	CN Tower	55%
1978	Over 900 followers of Jim Jones commit suicide by drinking poison mixed with this beverage	Flavor Aid	54%
1973	Several Arab states launch a surprise attack on Israel during this Jewish holy day	Yom Kippur	54%
1988	Terrorists from this country cause Pan Am 103 to crash into Lockerbie, Scotland	Libya	53%
1972	The U.K. fights the second "Cod War" against this country	Iceland	47%