| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Russian invasion of _________. | Ukraine | 100%
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| The ___________ Song Contest 2022 is held in Turin, Italy. | Eurovision | 95%
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| The first successful ____ transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland,United States. | Heart | 95%
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| The world population reaches __ billion. | 8 | 84%
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| ___________ dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at the age of 96. | Queen Elizabeth II | 84%
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| 2022 presidential election: People Power Party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol is elected President of _____________. | South Korea | 84%
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| The 2022 FIFA World Cup is held in ________. | Qatar | 79%
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| Elon Musk completes his $44 billion acquisition of _______. | 79%
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| Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo ______ is assassinated while giving a public speech in the city of Nara, Japan. | Abe | 74%
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| China conducts its largest ever military exercise around Taiwan in response to a controversial visit by Nancy _______, the highest-ranking U.S official to visit Taiwan since the 1990s. | Pelosi | 68%
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| Canada and _________ end their competing claims for Hans Islands by dividing the island roughly in half. | Denmark | 58%
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| At least 158 people are killed in a crowd crush during ___________ festivities in Seoul, South Korea. | Halloween | 53%
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| Death of Soviet politician _______________. | Mikhail Gorbachev | 53%
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| 2022 European ________: A series of severe _________ from July to August hit Europe, causing at least 53,000 deaths. | Heat waves | 47%
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| After substantial protests against China's ______-COVID policies, the Chinese government eases on its COVID restrictions. | Zero | 47%
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| 2022 _________ outbreak. An outbreak of ___________ begins when the first _______ virus case is reported in London, the United Kingdom. | Monkeypox | 42%
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| Researchers in the ___________ find Endurance, one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks, which sank in 1915 during Ernest Shackleton's exploration. | Antarctic | 37%
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| Global ________ prices increase to their highest level since the UN's ____ Price Index began in 1990 as a result of the Ukraine crisis. | Food | 32%
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| The Congress of ______ removes President Pedro Castillo from office and arrests him after he tries to dissolve congress in a coup attempt. | Peru | 32%
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| Protests erupt in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's __________. | morality police | 26%
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| The ____________ releases the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change. It concludes that many impacts are on the verge of becoming irreversible. | IPCC | 21%
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| Hurricane _______ impacts Cuba and the United States, causing catastrophic damage to both nations. | Ian | 16%
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