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Worksheets1990s Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which African nation elected a former political prisoner the country's first black president in its first interracial election on April 29, 1994?
Rwanda
Mozambique
South Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo
The most complex and sensitive telescope ever constructed was placed into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery in April 1990. Which astronomer is the device named after?
Carl Sagan
Lyman Spitzer
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Edwin Hubble
In a clear sign of communism's impending doom in the Soviet Union, city officials in Leningrad, a city named in honor of V. I. Lenin in 1924, was changed back to this—its original name—in September 1991.
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Kiev
Stalingrad
Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team of scientists announced in February 1997 that they had cloned the world's first sheep from adult cells. What is this infamous sheep's name?
Molly
Holly
Connie
Dolly
The tenuous road to peace in the Middle East was damaged further on Nov. 4, 1995 when this prime minister of Israel was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.
Shimon Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
Ehud Barak
Yasser Arafat
Who was Russia’s first elected president?
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Putin
How many Americans tuned in to watch the O.J. Simpson trial verdict?
103,900
95 million
500,000
10 million
The "Dream Team" won Olympic gold in what year's games?
1991
1996
1992
1995
What was the federal minimum wage for most during the 1990s?
$3.25
$4.25
$5.00
$5.25
What actor starred in two of the top 10 highest grossing films of the 1990s?
Will Smith
Samuel L Jackson
Wesley Snipes
Denzel Washington
How old was Notorious B.I.G. when he was murdered?
24
30
25
27
What year did the Mall of America open?
1998
1995
1991
1992
When was the World Wide Web first introduced?
1991
1999
1995
1997
Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to how many championships?
3
4
6
5
