| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| English monarch who celebrated her diamond jubilee | Queen Elizabeth II | 95%
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| Virtual currency worth over $100 billion at the end of the decade | Bitcoin | 94%
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| City in which you could you find the world's tallest building | Dubai | 92%
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| Red-headed singer who wrote "Shape of You" – once the most streamed song on Spotify | Ed Sheeran | 88%
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| Social network acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion | 86%
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| Country which suffered a nuclear accident after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami | Japan | 86%
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| Entrepreneur whose many businesses included building cars, launching rockets, drilling tunnels, and installing solar panels | Elon Musk | 83%
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| Disease which had the worst outbreak in its history – killing about 11,000 in West Africa | Ebola | 82%
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| Terrorist leader killed by U.S. Navy Seals in Pakistan | Osama Bin Laden | 82%
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| Comic book company that was responsible for 21 of the top 100 highest-grossing movies of the decade | Marvel | 81%
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| The first city in history to host the Olympic Games for the third time | London | 71%
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| Climate change agreement signed by 195 countries (none of whom are fully meeting their commitments) | {Paris} Agreement | 69%
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| Peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 | Crimea | 67%
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| Series of protests that rocked Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and other countries in 2011 | {Arab} Spring | 63%
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| Country whose population dipped from 21 million to 17 million due to a civil war and subsequent mass emigration | Syria | 61%
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| Airline that had one plane mysteriously disappear and another shot down by Russian separatists | {Malaysia} Airlines | 59%
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| Video game that overtook Tetris to become the best-selling of all-time | Minecraft | 57%
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| Person with the decade's most-viewed Wikipedia page | Donald Trump | 55%
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| Country in which 276 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram | Nigeria | 49%
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| What CRISPR allowed scientists to "edit" | DNA | 37%
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