| year | event | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Following 9/11 terrorist attack, the US invades this country | Afghanistan | 100%
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| 2002 | This currency enters circulation | Euro | 95%
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| 2001 | This superpower joins the World Trade Organization | China | 86%
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| 2010 | Located in this country, volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupts | Iceland | 86%
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| 2005 | This hurricane kills 1,836 people in the US | Katrina | 86%
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| 2006 | This dictator is executed | Saddam Hussein | 86%
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| 2005 | This Pope dies | John Paul II | 81%
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| 2009 | This singer dies | Michael Jackson | 76%
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| 2004 | This type of disaster occurs in the Indian Ocean and kills around 230,000 people | Tsunami | 76%
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| 2013 | The epidemic of this virus begins in Africa | Ebola | 67%
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| 2003 | Last flight of this supersonic plane | Concorde | 62%
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| 2011 | This country gains independence | South Sudan | 62%
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| 2013 | This country joins the EU | Croatia | 57%
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| 2013 | This African leader dies | Nelson Mandela | 57%
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| 2010 | First structure to reach 800 meters | Burj Khalifa | 52%
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| 2008 | Russia invades this country | Georgia | 52%
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| 2009 | flight US Airways 1549 miraculously lands in this river | Hudson River | 52%
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| 2008 | This country declares independence | Kosovo | 52%
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| 2004 | Train bombings in this European city kills 193 people | Madrid | 52%
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| 2011 | This African dictator is captured and killed | Muammar Gaddafi | 52%
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| 2012 | This leader is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party | Xi Jinping | 52%
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| 2011 | A 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggers a tsunami and a nuclear accident in this city | Fukushima | 48%
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| 2010 | The president of this country is killed in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia | Poland | 48%
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| 2013 | The Rana Plaza collapse occurs in this Asian country, killing 1,134 people | Bangladesh | 43%
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| 2010 | A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in this country kills around 230,000 people | Haiti | 43%
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| 2013 | A ... strikes the Chekyabinsk oblast in Russia, injuring around 1,500 people | Meteor | 43%
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| 2002 | This European country finally decides to join the United Nations | Switzerland | 43%
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| 2002 | This small country gains independence | East Timor | 38%
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| 2001 | 11 members of the royal family of this country are killed | Nepal | 33%
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| 2003 | This Space Shuttle disintegrates, killing all sevens astronauts on board | Columbia | 29%
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| 2009 | Australia is devastated by the Black Saturday ... | Bushfires | 19%
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| 2011 | Terrorist attacks in this European country kills 77 people | Norway | 14%
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| 2009 | 228 people die in a plane crash from ... to Paris | Rio de Janeiro | 14%
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| 2008 | An earthquake in this Chinese province kills 87,000+ people | Sichuan | 10%
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| 2008 | Cyclone Nargis kills 133,000 people in this Asian country | Myanmar | 5%
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| 2010 | This offshore drilling rig explodes | Deepwater Horizon | 0%
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| 2007 | The treaty of ... is signed | Lisbon | 0%
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