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Question	Answer	% Correct
What terrorist group did the hijackers of 9/11 attacks represent?	Al-Qaeda	96%
In 2006, what Solar system planet was reclassified and became a dwarf planet?	Pluto	96%
In 2005, what hurricane hit New Orleans, resulting in the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history?	Katrina	92%
Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but it is claimed by which country?	Serbia	88%
How many passenger planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001 attacks?	Four	81%
Which Caribbean country was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010 that killed 230,000 people?	Haiti	81%
Which Asian country gained its independence in 2002?	East Timor	77%
How was former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executed in December 2006?	Hanging	77%
In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake in which country triggered a tsunami and the meltdown of the nuclear power plant?	Japan	77%
In 2019, Macedonia and Greece reached a historic agreement in the Macedonia naming dispute. What is that country's new name?	North Macedonia	77%
Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?	Swaziland	77%
Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013?	Benedict XVI	73%
What part of Ukraine did Russia annex in 2014?	Crimea	73%
Where did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster occurred in 2010?	Gulf of Mexico	73%
The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?	Malaysia Airlines	73%
It which city in China was SARS-CoV-2 virus first identified in December 2019?	Wuhan	73%
What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?	War in Afghanistan	69%
In which country War in Darfur started in 2003?	Sudan	62%
In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?	Beirut	58%
What was the name of that U.S. military operation?	Enduring Freedom	58%
Which European county gained its independence in 2006?	Montenegro	58%
The President of which country was among 96 killed when their airplane crashed in Smolensk on April 10, 2010?	Poland	58%
On 14 February 2005, Rafic Hariri, the former Prime Minister of which country was killed in an explosion?	Lebanon	54%
In which city the killing of George Floyd sparked protests across the United States and the world in 2020?	Minneapolis	54%
Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?	Pakistan	54%
Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?	George Weah	50%
Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?	Pakistan	50%
In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?	Guinea	46%
What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?	Hosni Mubarak	46%
In which European capital train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000 people in 2004?	Madrid	46%
Which company owned the Concordia cruise ship that ran aground in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2012?	Costa	42%
In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?	Tunisia	42%
In 2014, Euromaidan protest in Ukraine sparked a revolution and the overthrow of which president?	Viktor Yanukovych	19%
Which of these luxury-liner cruise ships was attacked by pirates on November 5th, 2005?	The Seabourn Spirit	8%

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