| Question | Answer | When? | % Correct |
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| Massive bushfires in this country destroyed over 46 Million acres of land | Australia | January to May | 92%
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| This Basketball player dies in a helicopter crash | Kobe Bryant | January 26 | 91%
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| The WHO declares the outbreak of this disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern | COVID-19 | January 30 | 87%
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| This person is elected as the 46th president of the United States | Joe Biden | November 3 / 7 | 83%
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| This country formally withdraws from the EU, beginning an 11-month transition period | United Kingdom | January 31 | 81%
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| China ends lockdown in this city, where the virus behind the pandemic was first discovered | Wuhan | April 8 | 77%
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| Large protests against police brutality and racism follow after the killing of this person | George Floyd | May 26 | 70%
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| The accounts of many celebrities, CEOs and political figures on this social media are hacked to promote a bitcoin scam | July 15 | 62%
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| This continent is declared free of wild polio | Africa | August 25 | 58%
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| The ____ trial of the President of the United States, Donald Trump begins in the US Senate | Impeachment | January 16 | 58%
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| This associate justice of the Supreme Court of the USA dies at age 87 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | September 18 | 57%
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| Two explosions kill over 220 people, injure thousands and severely damage the port of this city | Beirut | August 5 | 55%
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| The USA exit this agreement on climate change | Paris Agreement | November 4 | 53%
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| This scottish actor, famous for playing James Bond, dies at age 90 | Sean Connery | October 31 | 51%
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| This country becomes the first on Central America to legalize same-sex marriage | Costa Rica | May 26 | 49%
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| This Japanese Prime Minister annouces his resignation from office | Shinzo Abe | August 28 | 45%
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| Luxembourg becomes worlds first country to make this free to use | Public transportation | February 29 | 34%
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| The Reelection of this president sparks protests of 300.000 people in Minsk | Alexander Lukashenko | August 9 | 32%
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| the "Taal Volcano" errupts in this country, leading to the evacuation of thousands | Philippines | January 12 | 28%
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| 20.000 tons of oil leaked into Ambarnaya River in this country, the second largest accident in modern history of the country | Russia | June 3 | 26%
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| Astromoners announce the discovery of the first ____ in a star system visible to the naked eye | Black Hole | May 6 | 25%
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| Deadly clashes errupt in this region between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces | Nagorno-Karabakh | September 27 | 23%
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| This country becomes the 30th member of NATO | North Macedonia | March 27 | 19%
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| The United States removes this country from its list of state sponsors of terrorism | Sudan | December 14 | 13%
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| A Japanese bulk carrier stranded and broke in half in this country, spilling 1000 tonnes of oil into the ocean, the largest environmental disaster in the countries history | Mauritius | August 15 | 11%
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