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Quiz on the Year 2006

Can you guess these facts about things that happened in the year 2006?
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Celestial body which was demoted to "dwarf planet" status
Pluto
Video game system released by Nintendo
Wii
Type of animal which killed Steve Irwin
Stingray
City which hosted the Winter Olympics
Turin
New website which allowed people to post messages up to 140 characters in length
Twitter
Country which broke away from Serbia, becoming the 192nd member of the UN
Montenegro
Former dictator who was executed by hanging
Saddam Hussein
Singer who said "I'm bringing sexy back"
Justin Timberlake
City where 362 people died from a stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual
Mecca
Actor who appeared as James Bond for the first time in "Casino Royale"
Daniel Craig
Author of the book "The Audacity of Hope"
Barack Obama
French footballer who was sent off from the World Cup finals after
headbutting an opponent
Zinedine Zidane
New DVD format which competed against HD DVD
Blu-ray
Teenage singer who released her first album with songs including
"Tim McGraw" and "Teardrops on My Guitar"
Taylor Swift
Pixar movie featuring Lightning McQueen
Cars
For the first time, a vaccine was released to target this virus which can
cause cervical cancer
HPV
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16 Comments
EcceHomo
+7
Level 86
Aug 6, 2025
It's not long enough ago to be history and not recent enough to recall.
MasterRocket
+3
Level 83
Aug 6, 2025
12/16

Lovely year!

akipopopopooon
+14
Level 81
Aug 6, 2025
As a 2006 Time Person of the Year awardee I approve of this quiz!
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Aug 6, 2025
Wait a second. That was the year I won the award. What's going on?
GlassMonkeyOLD
+3
Level 69
Jan 1, 2026
'You' was the 2006 Time Person of the Year. So I guess that's everyone, except Time Magazine, of course.
sihollett
+1
Level 91
Aug 6, 2025
There was no 'demotion' to dwarf planet status - it was a promotion from non-planet-that-we-pretend-is-a-planet-in-school-textbooks to a new category that formally made it sort of a planet, but not quite.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Aug 6, 2025
People come up with the weirdest objections.
Eduuuu13
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Level 55
Aug 6, 2025
In the matter of pluto I once listened to a podcast that explained everything that happened in the convention and how it was divided between the people that wanted pluto to stay a planet, in their majority american, and the ones that though it should have another status, I think they first called a commitee that said that all round objects that exceded some meditions would become planets and that was full of contradictions, and it would evolve to 12 planets and probably in the future to more, then they decided to overthrow that decision and came with a new definition, the new definition is still very ambiguos but It defined what we know today as the planets. I maybe got something wrong but I tried my best to remember.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Aug 6, 2025
Oh yeah, they made the right decision. If Pluto is a planet, then Eris has to be as well. And there are probably a bunch more Kuiper Belt objects that would meet the criteria as well.

But to say that it was "never" a planet? That's just silly. You can't rewrite history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

"Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, making it the first known object in the Kuiper belt. It was immediately hailed as the ninth planet."

In any case Pluto isn't the first planet to be demoted. The first four asteroids to be discovered (Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta) were all considered planets in the 19th century.

VirusSlo
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Level 72
Aug 7, 2025
2025 and I'm still completely oblivious to Swift and Timberlake.
DrWhoFanJ
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Level 64
Aug 7, 2025
Blu-Ray is not a DVD format. It’s a very different type of disc entirely. A better phrasing would be "home video format", which would also eliminate the clunky duplication of the term DVD.
McKenzieFam
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Level 68
Sep 2, 2025
10/16. In my defense, I was very young at the time and not paying much attention to world events.
Alouka
+3
Level 74
Jan 1, 2026
Dang, I was wondering what I was spelling wrong in papillomavirus
Ninouxosh
+1
Level 52
Jan 4, 2026
same hahaha and i was like "what's HPV ?" and it's literally the same thing
Anonymousbear25
+3
Level 57
Jan 1, 2026
Wrong year
mapnavigator
+1
Level 66
Jan 2, 2026
I can't believe 2006 is now 20 years ago. What a great year it was.
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