1. Which year was an assassination attempt made on President Reagan in Washington?

2. Which game show did Sarah Kennedy, Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly and Jeremy Beadle all team up to present in 1981?

3. Who in the UK was found guilty of thirteen murders at the Old Bailey in May 1981?

4. One of the biggest and most influential hacker organisations was founded in Berlin on 12th September 1981. What is its name?

5. Which kind of automobile first rolled off the line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland in 1981?

6. Who was 'Wired For Sound' in 1981?

7. Which American tennis player won the Women?s Singles title at Wimbledon in 1974, 1976 and 1981?

8. How many hits did John Lennon have in chart week beginning Jan 10 1981?

9. Who had a no 1 in July 1981 with Ghost Town?

10. Who directed and starred in the 1981 film Reds?

11. What ill-fated high-speed train with a revolutionary tilting mechanism was revealed by British Rail in 1981?

12. Which actor became a star in Public Enemy in 1931 and was still going strong in 1981 as a police commissioner in Milos Forman's film Ragtime?

13. General Leopoldo Galtieri was president of which South American country in 1981 and 1982?

14. From which village did the eight-man life-boatmen of the Solomon Browne come, before losing their lives attempting to rescue seafarers in December 1981?

15. With 76 years and 317 days, who was before Anthony Hopkins the oldest man to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role? (Note: Academy Award for Best Actor. Christopher Plummer's Oscar was for Best Supporting Actor)

16. Which male tennis player lost a record 4 US Open singles finals in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1981?

17. What is the name of the Yorkshire Ripper who was arrested for his crimes in 1981?

18. Which jockey riding Shergar in 1981 won in his first Derby ride?

19. Who succeeded Anwar Sadat as president in 1981?

20. Who did Steve Davis defeat in his very first World Championship Snooker final in 1981?

ANSWERS

1. 1981

2. Game For A Laugh

3. Peter Sutcliffe - The Yorkshire Ripper.

4. Chaos Computer Club (CCC)

5. DeLorean DMC-12

6. Cliff Richard

7. Chris Evert

8. 3

9. The Specials

10. Warren Beatty

11. Advanced Passenger Train

12. James Cagney

13. Argentina

14. Mousehole, Cornwall

15. Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond, 1981)

16. Bjorn Borg

17. Peter Sutcliffe

18. Walter Swinburn

19. President Mubarak

20. Doug Mountjoy.