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50 free 1992 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
1992 was the year the Queen called horrible and the year Britain crashed out of Europe's currency grid in a single afternoon. A castle burned, a princess's secrets went into print, a new football league kicked off and the first text message was sent. Abroad, a capital came under siege, a Canadian team took baseball's biggest prize and a Texan billionaire upended a presidential election. These 50 questions cover the news, sport, music, film and television of the year: a runner carried over the line by his father, a snooker final turned around from six frames down, a soap that replaced a chat show and died within a year, a dance hit that topped the chart during drug awareness week, and a vice-president undone by a spelling bee. Most are pitched for a pub table, with a handful for people who really remember the year. Play on your phone with instant answers and explanations, or print it for a pub quiz, office quiz or a 1992-themed birthday.
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Q 01Which royal residence burned in November after a spotlight set a curtain alight in the Private Chapel?
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle's State Apartments went up in one of the largest peacetime fire-fighting operations in modern British history, and four days later the Queen called the year her 'annus horribilis'.
Q 02Which capital's siege began in April and ran for 1,425 days, the longest of any capital city in modern warfare?
Sarajevo
Sarajevo stayed encircled until 29 February 1996, a siege three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the siege of Leningrad.
Q 03Which team beat Atlanta in six games to become the first World Series winner from outside the United States?
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays repeated the feat a year later and remain the only non-US team to have won it, since the Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals in 2005.
Q 04Which British 400 m runner tore a hamstring in his Barcelona semi-final and finished the lap leaning on his father?
Derek Redmond
Derek Redmond was officially recorded as 'Did Not Finish' because his father Jim had barged past security to help him, yet the crowd gave the pair a standing ovation.
Q 05Which country, invited only after Yugoslavia was expelled, beat Germany 2–0 to win the European Championship in Sweden?
Denmark
Denmark had finished second to Yugoslavia in qualifying and got the call-up as the Yugoslav Wars tore that country apart; goals from John Jensen and Kim Vilfort settled the final.
Q 06Which Williams driver clinched the Formula One title with second place in Hungary, then left to race in IndyCar?
Nigel Mansell
Nigel Mansell won the IndyCar title at his first attempt in 1993, making him the only driver ever to hold the Formula One and American open-wheel championships at the same time.
Q 07Which club, managed by Howard Wilkinson, won the final old First Division title before the Premier League began?
Leeds United
Leeds United clinched it on the penultimate weekend by winning 3–2 at Sheffield United while Manchester United lost at Anfield, and Wilkinson remains the last English manager to win the title.
Q 08Which host left The Tonight Show on 22 May aged 66, a night after his final guests Robin Williams and Bette Midler?
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson had hosted since 1962 and retired from show business entirely, handing the desk to Jay Leno, and that penultimate broadcast helped the programme win the Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series at the 13th attempt.
Q 09Which Texas billionaire announced his run on Larry King Live and took 18.9% of the presidential vote as an independent?
Ross Perot
Ross Perot won about 19.7 million votes yet not a single electoral vote, the best showing by a candidate outside the two main parties since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Q 10Which European system did the pound leave on 'Black Wednesday', after a one-day promise to raise interest rates to 15%?
Exchange Rate Mechanism
The Exchange Rate Mechanism exit was announced by Chancellor Norman Lamont at 7pm on 16 September, with rates left at 12%; they were back to 10% the next day.
Q 11Which West Bromwich MP was elected Speaker of the Commons by 372 votes to 238, the first woman to hold the post?
Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd was also the first Opposition MP ever elected Speaker, taking the chair weeks after Labour had lost its fourth general election in a row.
Q 12Which Scottish MP succeeded Neil Kinnock as Labour leader in July, after the party's fourth successive election defeat?
John Smith
John Smith had been Kinnock's shadow chancellor since 1987, and his sudden death from a heart attack in May 1994 handed the leadership to Tony Blair.
Q 13Which tabloid claimed credit for John Major's surprise 21-seat majority with a front page saying it 'wot won it'?
The Sun
Q 21Which High Court of Australia decision, brought by a Torres Strait Islander, rejected the doctrine of terra nullius?
Mabo v Queensland
Mabo v Queensland was brought by Eddie Mabo and others and decided on 3 June, and by ruling that Australia had never been nobody's land it opened the way to native title claims.
Q 22In which Indian city did a 150,000-strong rally of Hindu activists demolish the 16th-century Babri Masjid on 6 December?
Ayodhya
Ayodhya is held in Hindu tradition to be the birthplace of Rama, and the mosque's destruction set off riots in Mumbai, Delhi and other cities that killed more than 2,000 people.
Q 23Which French forward joined Manchester United on 26 November after his club rang to ask about buying Denis Irwin?
The Sun's headline of 11 April mocked polls that had predicted a hung parliament or a narrow Labour win, and the phrase became shorthand for the power of the press.
Q 14Which journalist's book Diana: Her True Story, published in June, laid bare the Prince and Princess of Wales's marriage?
Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton's source was Diana herself, through secretly taped recordings, a role both of them denied during her lifetime and he acknowledged only after her death.
Q 15Over which network did Neil Papworth send the first ever text message, reading 'Merry Christmas', on 3 December?
Vodafone
Vodafone's GSM network carried the message from a personal computer at Sema Group to the Orbitel 901 handset of Richard Jarvis; Papworth was a test engineer, not a Vodafone employee.
Q 16Which station launched on 7 September with Handel's Zadok the Priest, after two months of birdsong test transmissions?
Classic FM
Classic FM was the first national classical music station to launch since BBC Radio 3 a quarter of a century earlier, and holds one of the UK's three Independent National Radio licences.
Q 17Which shopping centre, the largest in the United States, opened in August on the old Metropolitan Stadium site?
Mall of America
Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota wrapped more than 400 stores around an indoor theme park, later run as Knott's Camp Snoopy, where a plaque marks the old ballpark's home plate.
Q 18Which city hosted June's Earth Summit, attended by 108 heads of state and government and addressed by a 12-year-old?
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro's UN Conference on Environment and Development spread the idea of sustainable development, and the child speaker was Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki, whose speech later became a dance track.
Q 19To which country did a US-led coalition called Operation Restore Hope deploy from 5 December, under UN Resolution 794?
Somalia
Somalia's famine had almost ended by the time the troops arrived, and later estimates suggest the relief effort shortened it by only about a month.
Q 20Which Spanish city staged Expo '92, marking 500 years since Columbus sailed, and got Spain's first AVE high-speed line?
Seville
Seville's exhibition ran from April to October on the Isla de La Cartuja, while the new AVE trains linked the city to Madrid via Córdoba the same spring.
Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona cost £1 million after chairman Bill Fotherby's call about Irwin prompted Alex Ferguson to ask for the Frenchman instead, two days after Cantona had faxed in a transfer request.
Q 24Which Scot won ten frames in a row from 14–8 down to beat Jimmy White 18–14 in the World Snooker Championship final?
Stephen Hendry
Stephen Hendry's second world title began a run of 29 consecutive wins at the Crucible that still stands as a modern-era record, while White has lost all six world finals he has reached, this one included.
Q 25Which side, urged by captain Imran Khan to play like 'cornered tigers', beat England by 22 runs in the World Cup final?
Pakistan
Pakistan's first World Cup was sealed at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 25 March, in the first tournament played in coloured clothing with white balls and under floodlights.
Q 26Which striker's England career ended with his substitution against Sweden, one goal short of Bobby Charlton's record?
Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker retired with 48 goals from 80 caps, one fewer than Charlton's total, after a 2–1 group defeat at Euro 92 in which Graham Taylor hauled him off with half an hour left.
Q 27Which ex-world chess champion re-emerged to beat Boris Spassky in an unofficial rematch in Sveti Stefan and Belgrade?
Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer played on in Yugoslavia despite a United Nations embargo, so the US government issued a warrant for his arrest and he lived the rest of his life as an émigré.
Q 28Which Clint Eastwood western became the third of its genre to win Best Picture, after Cimarron and Dances with Wolves?
Unforgiven
Unforgiven took four Oscars in all, with Eastwood named Best Director, Gene Hackman Best Supporting Actor and Joel Cox winning for Film Editing.
Q 29Which actor played Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol, vowing to act as if with the Royal Shakespeare Company?
Michael Caine
Michael Caine played it dead straight opposite Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, with Gonzo narrating as Charles Dickens so the script could keep the original prose.
Q 30Which Robert Rodriguez debut was shot for $7,000, nearly half of it earned in clinical drug trials in Austin?
El Mariachi
El Mariachi was meant for the Mexican video market until Columbia Pictures bought it, and Guinness World Records lists it as the lowest-budgeted film ever to gross $1 million.