90s Films
This was the film that had the second highest worldwide gross in the 90s, according to wiki, after Titanic. Its plot was set to the tune of American Pie by Weird Al Yankovic in a parody song.
What is Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
In 1994, he made the highest first class score in the men’s game for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston, going past Hanif Mohammad’s 499.
Who is Brian Lara?
Andrew Wiles first announced his solution to this problem on 23 June 1993 at a lecture in Cambridge entitled “Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations”. However, in September 1993 it was found to contain an error. One year later on 19 September 1994, in what he would call “the most important moment of [his] working life”, Wiles stumbled upon a revelation that allowed him to correct the issue and publish it in 1995.
What is Fermat’s Last Theorem?
This 90s conflict, named after a region, remains one of the few instances of conventional warfare between two declared nuclear powers.
What is the Kargil War?
It was probably inspired by an incident involving Brijesh Patel in 1975 and was recently remade with a message of support for a national side.
What is Cadbury’s Kuch Khaas Hai cricket ad?
It is a visual effect or visual impression of detaching the time and space of a camera (or viewer) from that of its visible subject. The term was first used with reference to 1999 hit Hollywood film and later in reference to the video game Max Payne.
What is bullet time?
The heavyweight fight, on June 28, 1997, dubbed “The Bite Fight”, between Mike Tyson and this boxer brought in $180 million in revenue and made headlines after Tyson was disqualified for biting off a part of his ear.
Who is Evander Holyfield?
It was conceived by Ken Kutaragi and released in Japan on 3 Dec 1994 and in North America on 9 Sep 1995. It received acclaim and sold strongly; in less than a decade, it had shipped over 100 million units. Its use of CDs heralded a transition from the industry’s use of cartridges.
What is the Sony PlayStation?
It was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s that literally translates to “restructuring”. Together with Gorbhachev’s Glasnost (openness) policy reform, it aimed at restructuring the Soviet Political and economic system, in an effort to end the era of stagnation. It lasted until 1991 and is often argued to be a significant cause for the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
What is Perestroika?
A creation of Lintas, it was launched in 1989. Jaikrit Rawat was responsible for lyrics, and Louis Banks for the soundtrack. One of the early campaign headlines was “The great Indian spirit.”
What is the Hamara Bajaj ad campaign?
This actor’s identical twin, Leslie, actually appeared towards the end of a massively successful 90s film in a scene that demanded a double role. The scene involved an impersonation of the character in order to fool Edward Furlong's character.
Who is Linda Hamilton?
Serena Williams made history in 1999, becoming the first black woman to win a grand slam in the open era when she beat this world number 1 at the time in the US Open, who had had an epic 1997 making the finals of all four grand slams and winning three.
Who is Martina Hingis?
She was born on July 5, 1986 and the public announcement of her existence on 22 Feb 1997 generated widespread media attention. She lived her entire life of 6.5 years at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian and was euthanized on 14 Feb 2003 because of a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis.
Who is Dolly the Sheep?
This US senator, a former mayor of SF, now in the news for the wrong reasons, was first elected to the senate in the 1992 elections in what was dubbed the Year of the Woman, after the election of a number of women to the US senate. Her win, along with Barbara Boxer’s, made California the first state in US history to be represented in the senate by two women.
Who is Diane Feinstein?
It is a remote, yet famous village and a municipality in Rajasthan. Located en route between Jaisalmer and Jodhpur or Bikaner at 27.095°N 71.753°E it has an average elevation of 233 meters (764 feet) and gets its name from Hindi for “palace of five mirages.”
What is Pokhran?
It’s a 1991 superhero film, produced and directed by Shashi Kapoor, which was an Indian-Soviet co-production. It starred Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Amrish Puri, and Saeed Jaffrey and was one of the most expensive Bollywood films of its time. It flopped badly at the box-office and is regarded as one of Amitabh’s worst films.
What is Ajooba?
This “all rounder” actually opened the batting and bowling for India in a game at the 1996 cricket world cup. The league game against Sri Lanka at Delhi ended up being his last ODI, one in which he scored 7 of 36 and went for 47 runs in 4 overs.
Who is Manoj Prabhakar?
Codenamed Chicago, its release included a commercial featuring The Rolling Stones’ 1981 single “Start me up.” A 30-minute promotional video featuring Jennifer Anniston and Matthew Perry was also released to showcase its features.
What is Windows 95?
This referendum held on May 22, 1998 was featured in the final episode of Derry Girls. The referendum ended with 71.1% and 94.4% in favor of it in the 2 concerned regions.
What is The Good Friday Agreement referendum?
It was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 en-route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu to Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi that was hijacked on Dec 24, 199 and flown to several different locations before landing in Kandahar.
What is IC 814?
Alan Ruck, famous for playing Connor Roy on Succession and Cameron Frye (Bueller’s friend in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), had a minor comedic part in this hit 90s film including lines where he says “We’re at the airport”, “I’ve already seen the airport.”
What is Speed?
Nicknamed “the worm”, this athlete endorsed Trump’s 2016 presidential run with a tweet saying “Donald Trump has been a great friend for many years. We don't need another politician, we need a businessman like Mr. Trump! Trump 2016.” He’s also been quoted saying “Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.”
Who is Dennis Rodman?
It was discovered independently on July 23, 1994 by two US astronomers and was the farthest comet from the Sun discovered by amateurs. It was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, due to its massive nucleus size and was hence dubbed the great comet of 1997. The comet likely made its previous perihelion 4,200 years ago.
What is Hale-Bopp?
He was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana approximately six years after he perpetrated what was at the the time deadliest act of terrorism in the US, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Who is Timothy McVeigh?
They are a series that were designed and assembled at C-DAC, Pune whose name translates to “supreme” in Sanskrit. The first in the series was benchmarked at a show in Zurich in 1990. After a point, one-offs were made rather than as part of serial production.
What is the PARAM supercomputer?