2000s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Internet service that introduced #hashtags	Twitter	94%
The best-selling author of the decade	J. K. Rowling	83%
Rapper who was the decade's best-selling musical artist	Eminem	76%
2009 James Cameron film which broke the all-time box office record	Avatar	70%
Hurricane that struck New Orleans in 2005	Hurricane Katrina	70%
Country which suffered the most deaths from the 2004 tsunami	Indonesia	67%
Athlete who won a record 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics	Michael Phelps	67%
TV personality who died from a sting ray attack in 2006	Steve Irwin	65%
British graffiti artist who gained worldwide fame	Banksy	64%
British company that made vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and bladeless fans	Dyson	58%
Economic downturn which started in 2007	Great {Recession}	56%
What Netherlands legalized in 2001, becoming the first country to do so	Same-sex marriage	56%
Pope who died after a reign of 26 years, the third longest in history	John Paul II	54%
Country which Russia invaded in 2008	Georgia	40%
Militant group led by Mullah Mohammad Omar	The Taliban	38%
Region of Russia which was the site of a bloody war	Chechnya	27%
East Asian city that had the world's tallest building from 2004–2010	Taipei	25%
Houston-based energy company that went bankrupt due to massive accounting fraud	Enron	24%
City that elected its first mayor, Ken Livingstone	London	24%
Nickname for the Guantánamo Bay prison	Gitmo	22%

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