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Below are a series of 3 events from a particular year, but can you work out which? I suggest 2 points for the correct year and 1 point if you're only one year out.

I've repeated the clues below along with the answers.

 

Clues

1)‘Ice Ice Baby’ spent 4 weeks at No.1 in the UK charts

Glasgow has a year as the European Capital of Culture.

The first known Web page was written this year.

 

2)The Bull Ring in Birmingham, one of the busiest retail centres in Europe, was officially opened.

Greta Thunberg was born in January this year.

Mars was at its closest to Earth for over 60000 years.

 

3)In the ‘Fight of the Century’ Joe Frazier defeats Muhammed Ali at Madison Square Gardens.

The first Starbucks coffee shop is founded

Arsenal win the League and FA Cup ‘double’

 

4) An explosion at the Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire killed 16 people.

The films Ghostbusters, and Gremlins are released.

Sebastian Coe was the first man to win consecutive gold medals at 1500 metres in the Olympic Games.

 

5) Fox News Channel is launched

The first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep, was born.

The summer Olympics were held in Atlanta

 

6) The Phantom of the Opera opens in London

British journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut and held for 5 years.

The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster happened.

 

 

 

Answers

1)‘Ice Ice Baby’ spent 4 weeks at No.1 in the UK charts

Glasgow has a year as the European Capital of Culture.

The first known Web page was written this year.

1990

 

2)The Bull Ring in Birmingham, one of the busiest retail centres in Europe, was officially opened.

Greta Thunberg was born in January this year.

Mars was at its closest to Earth for over 60000 years.

2003

 

3)In the ‘Fight of the Century’ Joe Frazier defeats Muhammed Ali at Madison Square Gardens.

The first Starbucks coffee shop is founded

Arsenal win the League and FA Cup ‘double’

1971

 

4) An explosion at the Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire killed 16 people.

The films Ghostbusters, and Gremlins are released.

Sebastian Coe was the first man to win consecutive gold medals at 1500 metres in the Olympic Games.

1984

 

5) Fox News Channel is launched

The first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep, was born.

The summer Olympics were held in Atlanta

1996

 

6) The Phantom of the Opera opens in London

British journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut and held for 5 years.

The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster happened.

1986