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1. In December 1979, what Asian country did the Soviet Union invade in support of the national leadership who were fighting rebels called "Mujahideen"?
2. On May 24, 1979 this "Iron Lady" was swept into office as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
3. What English rock band played as 11 people were trampled to death at a concert in Cincinnati Ohio on December 3, 1979?
4. What brutal Ugandan dictator was deposed on April 11 1979?
5. What meteorological phenomenon occured in the Sahara Desert on Febuary 18, 1979 for what is believed to be the first time in living memory?
6. What unusual power source was first used by Bryan Allen to pilot the "Gossamer Albatross" across the English Channel on June 12, 1979?
7. While a poor predecessor to Fun Trivia, what addictive question and answer board game was created in Montreal Canada in 1979?
8. What "magical man" guided his Michigan State Spartans to a 75-64 victory in the 1979 NCAA Men's Collegiate Basketball Finals, besting Larry Bird and giving his Indiana State Sycamores their only loss?
9. What book first published in 1979, written by Norman Mailer, tells the story of a Utah man sentenced to death for murder who fights to have the sentence completed as soon as possible by a firing squad.
10. What American "Duke" a former USC Trojan football player, dubbed King of the Westerns and a Quiet Man with true grit, died on June 11 1979?
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