We Watched It Live Trivia Quiz

Answer: Al Cowlings

After Simpson failed to turn himself in as agreed for investigation into the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, an arrest warrant was issued for him and his friend Al Cowlings.
The pair were discovered in Cowlings' Ford Bronco, on Interstate 405, with Cowlings driving and Simpson in the back seat, allegedly pointing a gun at his own head.
A low speed police chase at 35 mph (56 kph) followed and lasted for two hours and covered over 50 miles (80 km), before Simpson finally surrendered. At the height of the chase there were over 20 police vehicles tailing the Bronco and almost a dozen news helicopters covering proceedings.
Although Cowlings played for five different NFL teams during his career, as well as the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL and had an acting role in the HBO sitcom "1st & Ten" (1984-1991), he is best remembered for being O.J.'s driver that fateful night.

Answer: Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love"

Hendrix and the boys had already played a stunning version of "Voodoo Child" (1968), following which Lulu announced they were going to play "Hey Joe". Hendrix certainly started "Hey Joe" after a small jam session, but after the first verse, and just as Lulu was about to join the band on stage, he stopped.
Earlier that day, Cream had announced their decision to split up and Hendrix paid tribute, saying, "We'd like to stop playing this rubbish and dedicate a song to the Cream, regardless of what kind of group they may be in. We dedicate this to Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce" before launching into a blistering "Sunshine Of Your Love" (1967).
This deviation from the agreed agenda along with the fact the band left Lulu hanging and then ignored the show's producer Stanley Dorfman signaling to them to wrap up as the show was over-running earned Hendrix a ban from the BBC but made for unforgettable TV.

Answer: Dick Scobee

Francis "Dick" Scobee was an experienced Air Force test pilot who apart from logging thousands of hours in a variety of planes had also served as pilot aboard Challenger mission STS-41-C in 1984.
For the 1986 STS-51-L mission, he was acting as commander and his words, "Roger, go at throttle up", responding to the Mission Control spacecraft communicator's directive, "Challenger, go at throttle up" were the last words recorded before the craft blew apart.
Following his death, he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and was also inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Teacher Christa McAuliffe has schools around the world named in her honour and the Soviet Union named a crater on the planet Venus after her in 1986.

Answer: New England Patriots

In the media following the game, the result became almost forgotten as the fury mounted over a breast being broadcast for approximately half a second.
Jackson was the halftime entertainment for the event and during a performance of "Rock Your Body" with special guest Justin Timberlake, he pulled off part of her costume, which revealed her breast, complete with a nipple shield, for less than half a second as broadcaster CBS immediately switched to an aerial view of the stadium.
Viewer reactions varied around the globe, with nearly 540,000 Americans complaining to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), while the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) received less than 50 complaints and in New Zealand the moment was re-run many times on TV shows, often in slow motion.
Back to the game though, which was on a knife edge after three quarters with the New England Patriots leading the Carolina Panthers by a score of 14-10. There then followed an explosive fourth quarter with 37 points being scored, 19 by Carolina and 18 by New England to give a final score of 32-29 in New England's favour.
The winning points came from the boot of Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri, who made his 41 yard (37 metre) field goal with just four seconds left on the clock.

Answer: Les Dennis and Dustin Gee

Tommy Cooper was partway through his act when he collapsed on stage, seemingly gasping for air. The audience and most of the crew believed this was part of his act and the laughter continued until the manager of fellow comedian and host for the evening, Jimmy Tarbuck, realising something was wrong, began attempting to pull Cooper through the stage curtain.
Broadcaster LWT cut to an unscheduled commercial break and following this, comedy duo Les Dennis and Dustin Gee came on stage to perform their act, while attempts to revive Cooper were going on behind the curtain, just feet away from them.
Cooper was taken to Westminster Hospital but pronounced dead on arrival, due to suffering a massive heart attack.
On learning of Cooper's death, Gee is reported to have told Dennis that dying on stage was the best way for an entertainer to go and would be his choice of death, and shockingly, two years later in 1986, he almost got his wish. At the end of a scene in pantomime "Cinderella", where Dennis and Gee were playing the parts of the Ugly Sisters, Gee suffered a heart attack. He lost consciousness and was taken to hospital where, although he regained consciousness, he suffered a relapse and died the following day.

Answer: He was never executed

Kennedy's assassination was an event which shocked the world and Lee Harvey Oswald became the most infamous person of the time when he was arrested for the act.
Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre where he had attempted to hide out and after questioning was arraigned in the early hours of November 23rd for the murder of Kennedy.
On November 24th he was being escorted to an armoured car which would take him to the county jail to await trial when nightclub owner Jack Ruby separated from the waiting crowd and shot Oswald from close range in the abdomen, watched by a TV audience of millions.
Oswald died the same day from his injuries and Ruby was arrested and charged with murder. He was found guilty of murder with malice on March 14th 1964 and sentenced to death but this conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals due to a violation of a Texas criminal statute regarding an oral confession of premeditation.
While awaiting his retrial, Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967 and was therefore never executed, as well as technically not being guilty of murder as his original conviction was overturned and his retrial was still pending at the time of his death.

Answer: Win a Winter Olympic gold medal

Bradbury was a speed skater, specialising in short track, and make no mistake, he was a talented skater, but just not in the same class as skaters from other countries where Nordic sports are a part of life.
He won his heat in the men's short track 1000 metres event at the Salt Lake City games, but was drawn in the quarter final against the might of American Apolo Anton Ohno and Canadian Marc Gagnon who was the defending world champion. With only the top two progressing, it seemed that Bradbury's games were over and this definitely looked to be the case when he finished in third place. Then the news came through that Gagnon had been disqualified for obstruction, moving Bradbury up to second place and into the semi finals.
In the semis he was well behind the rest of the field, but Kim Dong-sung of South Korea, Li Jiajun of China and Canada's Mathieu Turcotte all crashed, allowing Bradbury to skate through to first place and qualification for the final where he would face Ohno, Li and Turcotte again as well as South Korean Ahn Hyun-Soo.
Much like the semi final, Bradbury was well off the pace and was being left behind by his fellow competitors who while jostling for places collided on the final corner of the final lap and all crashed out, leaving Bradbury to skate through the melee and take Olympic gold.

Answer: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty

Over 30 million people tuned in to the 2017 Oscar ceremonies and saw Beatty open the envelope containing the winning movie and then hesitate before handing it to Dunaway, who declared the winner to be "La La Land" (2016).
The producers of "La La Land" arrived on stage to hearty congratulations and began making their emotional acceptance speech, when amid much confusion, employees of the ceremony made their way on stage and collected the envelope, while explaining that a mistake had been made.
Warren Beatty was then handed the correct envelope, which "La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz took from him and announced "Moonlight" (2016) as the winner and in an extremely magnanimous showing, displayed the card showing "Moonlight" to the gathered throngs.
Beatty later explained his pause by saying that the original envelope had named Emma Stone for her actress performance in "La La Land". An apology to "Moonlight", "La La Land", Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers was swiftly issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) - the accounting firm responsible for tabulating results and handing the envelopes to the show's presenters.

Answer: Japanese Socialist Party

Asanuma was taking part in a televised debate for the forthcoming elections to the Japanese House of Representatives, when ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi rushed onto the stage.
In front of the gathered 2,500 studio guests and a large TV audience, Yamaguchi drew a "wakizashi", a short samurai sword and stabbed Asanuma in his left side.
The sword pierced Asanuma's aorta and although he was rushed to hospital with no obvious serious wound, he died within minutes from massive internal bleeding.
Yamaguchi was apprehended on the stage and while awaiting trial killed himself in his cell in November 1960. His actions and his death were the inspiration for a series of copycat crimes in Japan and even now, well into the 21st century, he is feted as a hero by the far right in the country.
The Japanese Socialist Party, which had been a mixture of left wing, right wing and centrist socialists held together by the skilled leadership of Asanuma, became a breeding ground for infighting, and voter support declined year on year until the party finally disbanded in 1996.

Answer: Copper and gold

The San Jose copper and gold mine suffered a collapse on August 5th 2010, followed by a further collapse two days later, trapping 33 men 700 metres (2300 feet) underground.
The trapped miners attempted to escape via ventilation shafts, but the ladders, required by health and safety law, were all missing, so they retired to the relative safety of the "refuge" they had underground and awaited rescue efforts.
Although the men could hear the drills of the rescue team, the above ground efforts were hampered due to the mine shaft maps being out of date, but finally on 22nd August, after 17 days, contact was made.
The task of rescuing the miners was a long and complicated one, as a wrong move could lead to further collapse of the mine and the rescue mission involved the best mining brains from Latin America, South Africa, Australia, USA and Canada.
An extraction system was in place by October 9th and three days later the first efforts to bring the men to the surface began. At 11 minutes past midnight on October 13th, Florencio Avalos became the first miner to make it to the surface and the rescues continued until at 21:55, shift foreman Luis Urzua became the 33rd and final miner to stand on the surface.