With the BVRA being 35 years old this year, the questions are based on what other important events took place in 1987!
- Q. Who was famously kidnapped in Beirut on 20th January and held hostage for nearly five years?
- Q.. What was the name of the ferry that capsized on 6th March just outside the port of Zeebrugge, resulting in 193 lives lost
- Q.. Which long-running cartoon series was first broadcast on television on 19th April?
- Q. Who was the manager of the football team that won the FA Cup?
- Q. In which city did Mattias Rust land a small Cessna airplane on 28th May to demonstrate the poor quality of air defences?
- Q. Who won the Gentleman’s Singles at Wimbledon?
- Q. What was the name of the gunman who shot and killed 16 people in Hungerford on 19th August?
- Q. Who was the television weather presenter who famously reassured the nation that there was not going to be a storm on the night of 15th October?
- Q. In which town in Northern Ireland was a bomb detonated on 8th November, Remembrance Sunday, killing 12 and injuring many more.
- Q. On 18th November, in which underground station was there a fire that resulted in the deaths of 31 people.
It turns out that a great deal of newsworthy events took place in 1987, I hope you enjoy pondering them, and no Googling!
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