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Timeline of the 21st Century

How well do you remember historical events since 2000?
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1. What terrorist group did the hijackers of 9/11 attacks represent?
Hamas
Al-Qaeda
Boko Haram
ISIS
2. How many passenger planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001 attacks?
Four
Two
Five
Three
3. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?
War in Israel
War in Iraq
War in Afghanistan
War in Syria
4. What was the name of that U.S. military operation?
Neptune
Project Overlord
Enduring Freedom
Operation Desert Fox
5. Which Asian country gained its independence in 2002?
Maldives
Brunei
East Timor
New Caledonia
6. In which country War in Darfur started in 2003?
Syria
Sudan
Israel
Ukraine
7. In which European capital train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000 people in 2004?
Berlin
Paris
Prague
Madrid
8. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013?
Pius XII
Benedict XVI
Francis
John Paul II
9. In 2005, what hurricane hit New Orleans, resulting in the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history?
Katrina
Sandy
Maria
Andrew
10. Which of these luxury-liner cruise ships was attacked by pirates on November 5th, 2005?
The Seabourn Spirit
The Jewel of the Seas
Carnival Conquest
The Queen Mary II
11. On 14 February 2005, Rafic Hariri, the former Prime Minister of which country was killed in an explosion?
Iran
Oman
Lebanon
Yemen
12. Which European county gained its independence in 2006?
Slovakia
Kosovo
North Macedonia
Montenegro
13. In 2006, what Solar system planet was reclassified and became a dwarf planet?
Mercury
Pluto
Uranus
Mars
14. How was former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executed in December 2006?
Firing squad
Hanging
Lethal injection
Electrocution
15. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?
India
Iraq
Indonesia
Pakistan
16. Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but it is claimed by which country?
Montenegro
Albania
North Macedonia
Serbia
17. In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?
Tunisia
Yemen
Libya
Egypt
18. Which Caribbean country was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010 that killed 230,000 people?
Cuba
Haiti
Jamaica
Montserrat
19. Where did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster occurred in 2010?
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Hudson Bay
20. The President of which country was among 96 killed when their airplane crashed in Smolensk on April 10, 2010?
Greece
Finland
Poland
Serbia
21. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
Afghanistan
22. What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?
Hosni Mubarak
Anwar Sadat
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Gamal Abdel Nasser
23. In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake in which country triggered a tsunami and the meltdown of the nuclear power plant?
Japan
North Korea
Malaysia
Indonesia
24. Which company owned the Concordia cruise ship that ran aground in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2012?
Celebrity
Costa
Royal Caribbean
AIDA
25. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?
Etihad Airways
Singapore Airlines
Thai Airways
Malaysia Airlines
26. In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?
Guinea
Morocco
Tanzania
Ethiopia
27. In 2014, Euromaidan protest in Ukraine sparked a revolution and the overthrow of which president?
Viktor Yanukovych
Leonid Kuchma
Viktor Yushchenko
Petro Poroshenko
28. What part of Ukraine did Russia annex in 2014?
Donetsk
Kharkiv
Luhansk
Crimea
29. Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?
Benin
Lesotho
Guinea
Swaziland
30. Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?
George Weah
Roger Milla
Abedi Pele
Didier Drogba
31. In 2019, Macedonia and Greece reached a historic agreement in the Macedonia naming dispute. What is that country's new name?
North Macedonia
South Macedonia
Eastern Macedonia
Western Macedonia
32. It which city in China was SARS-CoV-2 virus first identified in December 2019?
Hangzhou
Wuhan
Nanjing
Shanghai
33. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?
Damascus
Tel Aviv
Beirut
Aleppo
34. In which city the killing of George Floyd sparked protests across the United States and the world in 2020?
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Detroit
Buffalo
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