What happened the last time the Atlanta Braves won the World Series by RobinJRichards

Champion(s):

RautY
The machines are winning


Runner(s)-Up:

DouglasLovesVixey
Time Person of the Year


Quiz Description

In the vein of a similar quiz and because, frankly, as a long suffering Georgia sports fan, this quiz is sweet sweet catharsis, and it should be done properly, I give you this: things from 1995, 26 years ago, the last time the Braves won it all.

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Questions:

To start easy: what team did Atlanta beat to win the Series? They're still waiting for their latest title and came oh so close a few years back.

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Cleveland Indians [not the Guardians as they weren't that then]

This Israeli Prime Minister was assassinated by Yagir Amir after a rally. The previous year he was lauded for a peace deal with Yasser Arafat.

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Yitzhak Rabin

Based on worldwide gross, this film, the third in its series, made $366,101,666. Part of the film's plot involved Chester A. Arthur.

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Die Hard with a Vengeance

A massive 7.3 earthquake damaged this city in Japan, killing over 6,000 in the Hanshin Region.

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Kobe

On average, what was the cost of a gallon of gas in the US in 1995? (Within 5 cents either way.)

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$1.11 ($1.05 - $1.16)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average first closed above this numeric threshold.

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5,000

This film was the highest grossing R-rated film of 1995. Either spelling is acceptable.

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Seven (Se7en)

This band won the Best New Artist Grammy in 1995. Its lead singer would later launch a solo career as a country singer.

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Hootie & the Blowfish

A peace accord ending the war in what was once known as Yugoslavia was signed in this Ohio city, home to the US Air Force Museum.

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Dayton

In a bit of a clerical error, this state finally got around to ratifying the 13th Amendment ending involuntary servitude. Oops.

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Mississippi

NASA officially lost contact with this space probe, launched in 1973 and sent to explore the Asteroid Belt, Jupiter and Saturn before drifting off into Deep Space.

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Pioneer 11

What many don't remember (and would rather forget) was that earlier that day the Georgia-Florida football game was held in Athens 70 miles away from Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Florida, coached by what Heisman winning QB, won.

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Steve Spurrier

This poet was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." Works include the poem "Alphabets" and the collection "Seeing Things."

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Seamus Heaney