| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| In Canada, the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, wins the most seats in the federal election but does not achieve this. | A majority | 89%
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| Pope Francis dies at this age | Eighty-eight | 89%
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| This runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections is banned from standing in elections for five years after they are convicted of embezzlement. | Marine Le Pen | 89%
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| A major power outage affects most of this European peninsula | Iberian Peninsula | 78%
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| Pakistani militants attack a group of tourists in an Indian-administered area of this disputed region | Kashmir | 78%
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| In a round of tariffs dubbed the "______ Day tariffs" the second Trump administration imposes tariffs on most countries. | Liberation | 67%
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| An explosion and fire occurs at Shahid Rajaee, one of these facilities that makes up a large part of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran | Port | 67%
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| Zhao Xintong wins the World Championship in this cue sport | Snooker | 67%
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| An outbreak of these whether phenomena leaves at least 26 people dead in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States | Tornadoes | 67%
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| This National Hockey League athlete breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals scored | Alexander Ovechkin | 56%
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| This Beach Boys co-founder dies at the age of 82 | Brian Wilson | 56%
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| This ice hockey team wins the Stanley Cup | Florida Panthers | 56%
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| These two countries exchange missile strikes on May 7 | India and Pakistan | 56%
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| Karol Nawrocki is elected president of this country | Poland | 56%
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| A nightclub roof collapse in this Caribbean capital city kills 226 people | Santo Domingo | 56%
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| Name either the women's or men's team that won the NCAA Division I March Madness championship. | UConn Huskies / Florida Gators | 56%
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| This non-Israel country conducts missile strikes on Iran on June 22 | United States | 56%
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| The Australian Labor Party, led by this current prime minister, wins a majority in the federal election | Anthony Albanese | 44%
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| This man is elected Chancellor of Germany | Friedrich Merz | 44%
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| In this U.S. state, an assassin kills state representative Melissa Hortman and kills state senator John Hoffman | Minnesota | 44%
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| This horse, ridden by Patrick Mullins, wins the Grand National. | Nick Rockett | 44%
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| Robert Francis Prevost is elected as this (be specific) | Pope Leo XIV | 44%
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| This party, led by current prime minister Edi Rama, wins an outright majority in the Albanian parliamentary election | Socialist Party of Albania | 44%
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| Name either the electoral alliance that won the most seats in the Senate or the party that won the most seats in the House of Representatives during the general election in the Philippines | Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas / Lakas–CMD | 33%
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| In the Singaporean general election, the People's Action Party retains this in parliament | A supermajority | 33%
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| This court in South Korea removes Yoon Suk Yeol from the office of the presidency. | Constitutional Court of Korea | 33%
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| Daniel Noboa is re-elected as president of this nation | Ecuador | 33%
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| Israel's airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program kill this IRGC Commander-in-Chief | Hossein Salami | 33%
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| Ōnosato Daiki is promoted to this highest rank in sumo | Yokozuna | 33%
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| This militant political organization and armed guerrilla group announces its plan for dissolution on May 12 | Kurdistan Workers' Party | 33%
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| This man is elected as president of South Korea | Lee Jae-myung | 33%
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| This club wins the Premier League | Liverpool F.C. | 33%
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| The Democratic Alliance, led by this prime minister, wins the most seats in parliament following a Portuguese legislative election | Luís Montenegro | 33%
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| This Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate dies at the age of 89 | Mario Vargas Llosa | 33%
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| Flooding submerges the town of Mokwa in this country and leaves more than 200 people dead | Nigeria | 33%
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| This basketball team wins the NBA Finals | Oklahoma City Thunder | 33%
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| An early election is called in the Netherlands after the Schoof cabinet collapses following this party's abandonment of the governing coalition | Party for Freedom | 33%
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| Nicușor Dan is elected as president of this country | Romania | 33%
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| This horse, ridden by Junior Alvarado, wins the Kentucky Derby | Sovereignty | 33%
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| The National Democratic Party wins the most seats in the National Assembly in this country's general election | Suriname | 33%
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| In this island country, the United National Congress wins a majority in the general election. | Trinidad and Tobago | 33%
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| A car attack at a street festival in this city kills at least eleven people and injures more than twenty others | Vancouver | 33%
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| Austria, represented by JJ with this song, wins the Eurovision Song Contest | "Wasted Love" | 33%
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| Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, and Phil Hanson of this auto racing team win the 24 Hours of Le Mans | AF Corse | 22%
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| Air India Flight 171 crashes in this Indian city approximately thirty seconds after takeoff | Ahmedabad | 22%
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| This man wins the Indianapolis 500 | Álex Palou | 22%
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| Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is sworn in as the new episcopal form of this head of state in Andorra | Co-prince | 22%
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| Fenerbahçe wins the Final Four Playoff in this basketball club competition | EuroLeague | 22%
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| A shooting at a secondary school in this Austrian city leaves eleven people dead | Graz | 22%
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| Author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi win the International Booker Prize for this collection of short stories | Heart Lamp: Selected Stories | 22%
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| This Jafar Panahi-directed film wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival | It Was Just an Accident | 22%
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| Name either the work that won Best Play or the work that won Best Musical at the Tony Awards | Purpose / Maybe Happy Ending | 22%
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| This former president of Uruguay dies at the age of 89 | José Mujica | 22%
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| Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, prime minister of this country, resigns after weeks of protests | Mongolia | 22%
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| This Kenyan writer and activist dies at the age of 87 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | 22%
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| The Crusaders defeat the Chiefs to win this rugby union club competition | Super Rugby Pacific | 22%
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| The Indian Premier League, which is a competition in this form of cricket, concludes with Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeating Punjab Kings | Twenty20 | 22%
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| A Chilean astronomical observatory named after this American astronomer releases its first light images on June 23 | Vera C. Rubin | 22%
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| This former president of Nicaragua and first elected female president in the Americas dies at the age of 95 | Violeta Chamorro | 22%
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