| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Country invaded by Russia | Ukraine | 99%
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| 2016 | Controversial celebrity elected President of the U.S. | Donald Trump | 94%
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| 2010 | City where Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, opened | Dubai | 92%
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| 2020 | City where the first major Covid-19 outbreak happened | Wuhan | 88%
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| 2012 | Monarch who celebrated her diamond jubilee | Queen Elizabeth II | 87%
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| 2018 | Place where liquid water was discovered | Mars | 82%
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| 2014 | Peninsula annexed by Russia | Crimea | 81%
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| 2013 | New pope who was elected – the first from the Americas | Francis | 81%
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| 2015 | Climate change accord signed by 195 countries | {Paris} Agreement | 78%
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| 2011 | Series of protests which rocked the Middle East | The {Arab} Spring | 78%
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| 2019 | City where up to 1 million people protested against the Chinese government | Hong Kong | 75%
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| 2017 | Region whose parliament declared independence from Spain | Catalonia | 74%
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| 2023 | Company that released GPT-4 | OpenAI | 73%
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| 2024 | GPU maker that became the world's most valuable company | NVIDIA | 70%
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| 2021 | Highly contagious, but less deadly, Covid variant which swept the world and eventually led to the end of the pandemic | Omicron | 51%
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