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Events of 2000 - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 431 times
- The average score is 15 of 30
Answer Stats
| Date | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Mar. 26 | This man is elected President of Russia for the first time. | Vladimir Putin | 88%
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| July 31 | Republican National Convention opens in Philadelphia, where this man is nominated for President. | George W. Bush | 77%
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| Nov. 7 | This woman becomes the first U.S. First Lady to win public office. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | 71%
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| - | This golfer sets or ties 27 PGA Tour records during the year. | Tiger Woods | 68%
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| Aug. 14 | Democratic National Convention opens in L.A., where this man is nominated for President. | Al Gore | 65%
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| Sept. 15 | The Summer Olympics open in this southern-hemisphere city. | Sydney, Australia | 65%
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| April 22 | Feds seize 6-year old Elián González in Miami. After a long custody battle, he would be sent back to this country. | Cuba | 64%
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| Aug. 12 | All 118 crewmen die when the Kursk, a submarine belonging to this country, sinks in the Barents Sea. | Russia | 62%
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| - | This player wins Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Olympics Women’s Singles tennis competitions. | Venus Williams | 61%
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| Oct. 5 | Downfall of Slobodan Milošević, President of this no-longer-extant country. | Yugoslavia | 61%
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| June 19 | This team wins the NBA finals, led by center Shaquille O'Neal. | L.A. Lakers | 59%
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| Dec. 12 | The U.S. Supreme Court stops the vote recount in this state, handing the Presidency to the Republican candidate. | Florida | 57%
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| Mar. 26 | The Oscars are dominated by this movie, starring Kevin Spacey as a man going through a mid-life crisis. | American Beauty | 55%
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| Feb. 23 | This Mexican-American guitarist wins 8 Grammys. | Carlos Santana | 55%
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| July 26 | The beginning of the end for this music file-sharing website, as a judge rules it must shut down. | Napster | 54%
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| Feb. 12 | This creator of Peanuts dies; the final original strip is published the next day. | Charles Schulz | 52%
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| May 16 | The decade’s best-selling album by a female artist is released. Name it or her. | Britney Spears -- Oops!… I Did It Again | 50%
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| Feb. 17 | Microsoft releases this version of Windows. | Windows 2000 | 46%
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| Oct. 26 | This team defeats its crosstown rivals in the World Series. | New York Yankees | 45%
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| July 10 | After his father’s death, this man becomes Syria’s leader. | Bashar al-Assad | 43%
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| Nov. 2 | The first resident crew enters this orbiting craft. | International Space Station | 43%
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| Jan. 10 | The largest-ever corporate merger joins AOL and this media company. | Time Warner | 37%
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| Aug. 5 | Death of this great English actor, who you unfortunately know only as Obi-Wan Kenobi. | Sir Alec Guinness | 33%
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| Aug. 8 | The H.L. Hunley, a Confederate _________, is raised to the surface of Charleston Harbor. | submarine | 32%
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| Jan. 30 | This midwest team, led by QB Kurt Warner, defeats the Titans in the Super Bowl. | St. Louis Rams | 31%
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| - | The top-selling album of the year is “No Strings Attached,” by this group. | 'N Sync | 30%
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| July 1 | Death of this actor, whose movies include “Grumpy Old Men,” “The Odd Couple,” “Dennis the Menace,” and “The Bad News Bears.” | Walter Matthau | 30%
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| Jan. 11 | This troubled singer is caught at an airport with marijuana in her bag. | Whitney Houston | 30%
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| July 2 | This man is elected President of Mexico, ending 71 years of rule by the PRI. | Vicente Fox | 26%
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| Oct. 12 | This U.S. destroyer is badly damaged by Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in Yemen. | USS Cole | 23%
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