The 19 Connection Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1993

Joe Montana transferred from the San Francisco 49ers to the Kansas City Chiefs in 1993. He asked for a transfer to ease the troubles that the 49ers were having with whom to start as quarterback. Joe was offered a choice of shirt numbers before playing for the Chiefs and opted for 19 as his number. Joe Montana retired from football in 1995, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000. Due to his history with the San Francisco 49ers, he was named one of 1999 inductees in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.

Answer: Farmer

The MiG-19 jet fighter had the NATO reporting name of Farmer. It was the first Soviet-built jet to go supersonic in level flight. A MiG-19P was embarrassingly shot down by ground missiles while pursuing the U-2 spy plane that was flown by Gary Powers. It was introduced in 1955.

Answer: Accident aboard a nuclear submarine

The movie was about an accident that happened aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine during the Cold War. While the movie was based on the incidents aboard the K-19 submarine in 1961, the actual submarine did not have "The Widowmaker" as a nickname. Due to the incidents aboard the submarine, the submariners gave it the nickname "Hiroshima" when it returned to active service.

In 1969 the K-19 was involved in a collision with the American attack submarine USS-Gato.

Answer: Vietnam

The song sampled parts from the TV documentary "Vietnam Requiem". The narrator from the original show, Peter Thomas, received royalties from the song as it was his voice that was heard. The song "19" went to the number one spot in over twelve different countries. With the help of Paul Hardcastle, "19" was parodied by the comedian Rory Bremner.

The parody version was about the English cricket team and how the captain could only average 19 runs against the West Indies cricket team in 1984.

Answer: USA

The 19th race of the 2012 F1 season was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas, USA. The race was nearly cancelled due to difficulties on and off the track. These problems were overcome and the race occurred on the 18th of November 2012. Sebastian Vettel started on pole position and was overtaken by Lewis Hamilton on the 42nd lap. Lewis managed to stay in front to take the chequered flag at the end.

Answer: Renault

The 19 first appeared to the mass market in 1988, and was in production in Argentina and Turkey up until 2000. Later Renault cars after the 19 were named without numbers.

Answer: Asteroid

The 19 Fortuna is an asteroid that is classed as a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by John Russell Hind on the 22nd of August 1852, and was named after a Roman goddess. John discovered ten asteroids in total. There was some controversy with one them as some people at the time thought he named the asteroid 12 Victoria after Queen Victoria, which he denied.

Answer: They were the Apollo 17 astronauts returning from the last moon mission

The Apollo 17 mission was the last visit to the moon by mankind in the 20th century. They blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on 7th December 1972 and returned to Earth on 19th December, some 12 days later. The crew of the mission broke various records set by previous Apollo missions, such as time spent on the moon and time spent using the lunar vehicle.

The Apollo space program was cancelled due to funding issues.

Answer: Evan Yo

Evan Yo released his debut album "19" in October 2006. A re-release in December 2006 titled "19+1" came out just after his birthday. Evan's style of music falls into the genre of Mandopop, which is popular in countries such as Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia.

In 2007, Evan won the Best Newcomer at the 13th Singapore Hit Awards and the Popular Media Request Single at the KKBOX Digital Music Awards.

Answer: David Koresh

On the 28th of February, the ATF tried to search the Branch Davidians complex at Mount Carmel, Texas. Things didn't go according to plan when trying to serve the warrant, members of the ATF and Branch Davidians exchanged gun fire, resulting in deaths on both sides. From this point on, the FBI took over and a siege ensued. On the 19th of April 1993, the FBI attempted to storm the complex and a fire broke out in the building.

A total of 76 people died that day, including the leader David Koresh, due to the fire and other causes.