So this is a very long shot!

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The Radio is running a competition to win a free meal in my favourite restaurant PLUS my DP has just got a new job after being made redundant 2 weeks ago, guess this would be a nice treat.

AIBU to ask you if you would have any clue what this could be.

The question is

"The anser is 1979" so you have to work out the answer.

Anything going on in the world right now that could be the question?

Help please :)

*Work out the question. Sorry!

"1979" is a great song by Smashing Pumpkins. Other than that, I'm of no use to you!

Margaret thatcher became pm?

When was Kate Middleton born? (That's a guess, I'm not even sure how old she is!)

The year that all great people were born in?!

Ok, seriously...year of the first female prime minister?

In what year was Quint 7?

Margaret Thatcher was incorrect!
Will try again using a different name Lol

The year Margaret Thatcher was first elected/Britain's first woman prime minister;
The year of the Iranian revolution (and also the siege of the US embassy in Tehran;
1st million pound footballer in the UK (Trevor Francis, signed for Nottingham Forest, who win the European Cup);
St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines both become independent from the UK;
Jeremy Thorpe trial;
Jubilee Line opens;
Lord Mountbatten is killed by the IRA;

and loads more.

Questions and answers - sham 69?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sham_69

This day in 1979 Eddie Kidd did his famous motorbike jump. Is he local to you?

Where do you live? That might help narrow it down.

The revolution in Iran was a pretty big event. Ayatollah Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.

I live in South Wales, Uk

Does the radio station have form for running this type of quiz? Is so, are there any clues on their website as to what the previous questions/answers were.

Is it that they have a question thought up where the answer is 1979 and you have to guess what it is (a reverse question/answer competition) or is there more to it than that?

Can you enter more than once, or just once?

From googling:

What year was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published?

When did pick someone from this list die?

When was someone from this list born?

Good luck!

There was a welsh assembly referendum in 1979 could it be that?

I'm not sure, having a look on their website now.

No further clues. I'm thinking it must be something relative, something to do with Christmas perhaps

What year did Wales vote against devolution?

Neil Kinnock, South Wales MP, becomes shadow education spokesman.

BBC Radio Cymru launched in 1979

First thing I thought was smashing pumpkins song.

A nudist beach is opened in Brighton.

The first posthumous Christmas song to feature on the UK Top 40. Elvis Presley's "It Won't Seem Like Christmas Without You"

Paul McCartney's "Wonderful christmastime" peaked in the UK Top 40.

All in 1979.

What Smashing Pumpkin song featured in the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV?

Have gone with the launch of BBC Radio Cymru! Fingers crossed

Yeah that makes the most sense. Excuse my crazy guesses! Let us know how you get on!

Could it be the year the restaurant opened? Or something connected to the radio station - when it started broadcasting?

Did the restaurant in question open in 1979? If the owner is foreign born, did they come to the UK in 1979?

Any prominent local bridges/roads etc built or opened in 1979?