21st Century History Quiz - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
2003 Country invaded by USA, UK and various others Iraq
92%
2002 Currency introduced in France, Spain and other EU states Euro
86%
2001 America invades _______ as part of the "War on Terror" Afghanistan
82%
2004 Social network _______ is launched in Harvard Facebook
81%
2011 President Obama announces that US have captured and killed _________ Osama Bin Laden
75%
2009 The King of Pop is found dead in his California home Michael Jackson
74%
2001 Airliners hit the Twin Towers in New York September 11th Attacks
74%
2001 World's largest public encyclopedia launches Wikipedia
74%
2010 The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building opens in this city Dubai
70%
2010 Eyjafjallajokull erupts in _____ grounding most European flights Iceland
65%
2007 The first version of this popular mobile device goes on sale iPhone
65%
2014 ______ is suspended from the G8 after annexing Crimea Russia
65%
2008 Swimmer breaks the gold medal record at Beijing Olympics Michael Phelps
63%
2004 Mass bombing of public transport in Spanish city Madrid
61%
2006 A supposed nuclear test is carried out by this Asian pariah state North Korea
61%
2003 Shenzou 5 is the first manned space flight for....... China
60%
2005 Pope _______ dies in April John Paul II
60%
2010 Julian Assange's website _______ releases 250,000 US diplomatic cables Wikileaks
59%
2002 ________ wins the World Cup in Yokohama Brazil
57%
2011 New country established in Africa South Sudan
56%
2009 Outbreak of _____ flu worldwide Swine
55%
2011 Anders Breivik murders 77 people in ____ after a bombing and mass shooting Norway
53%
2008 _______ resigns as President of Cuba Fidel Castro
52%
2003 Huge earthquake killing thousands hits Bam in this country Iran
50%
2010 Protests in Tunisia begin series of protests in other countries known as the ___ Arab Spring
48%
2013 Pope ______ XVI becomes the first voluntarily resign since 1294 Benedict
43%
2002 Department of _________ established by President Bush to protect USA Homeland Security
42%
2011 Libyan dictator killed as his state is toppled Muammar Gaddafi
40%
2006 _______ is sent off in the World Cup final for headbutting a player Zinedine Zidane
39%
2000 President Clinton becomes the first to visit _____ since US invasion Vietnam
38%
2004 Huge tsunami hits Southeast Asia on this day Boxing Day
37%
2009 Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi returns to ______ Libya
36%
2013 Whistleblower ______ leaks details of American mass surveillance programs to British newspaper The Guardian Edward Snowden
34%
2014 Flight MH370 disappears over Asia, prompting a huge search operation. The plane belonged to ______ _______ Malaysian Airlines
31%
2007 College massacre at American University kills 33 Virginia Tech Massacre
25%
2003 First US state to legalise same-sex marriage Massachusetts
24%
2001 This disease results in the culling of millions of livestock in UK Foot and Mouth
23%
2004 Country becomes the first in Europe to ban smoking in enclosed public places Republic of Ireland
23%
2013 _____ explodes over Chelyabinsk in Russia causing widespread damage Meteor
19%
2008 Testing begins at this device located at CERN in Geneva Large Hadron Collider
17%
2013 Euromaidan movement begins in ________ Ukraine
17%
2007 A British child called ______ disappears from an apartment in Portugal Madeleine McCann
14%
2012 Director ______ designs the opening ceremony for the London Olympics Danny Boyle
13%
2012 _______ rover lands on Mars successfully Curiosity
12%
2000 Notorious prison in Northern Ireland closes HM Prison Maze
11%
2012 ________ becomes the first human to break the sound barrier without using machine assistance in a spacedive from 24 miles high Felix Baumgartner
9%
2005 Concerts around the world for the Make Poverty History campaign Live 8
7%
2007 _______ is the last country in worldwide to make slavery illegal Mauritania
7%
2012 Legendary Astronomer and presenter __ ____ ____ dies at the age of 89 Sir Patrick Moore
7%
2006 250th anniversary of the birth of ______ celebrated globally Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6%
2013 Rana Plaza collapses in ____ becoming one of the worst and most lethal industrial disasters in history Dhaka
5%
2014 President ______ of Ukraine is ousted by his parliament following 100 people being killed in protests in Kiev against pro-Russian policies Yanukovych
5%
2008 Almost 80,000 people perish in the _______ quake in Sichuan, China Wenchuan
1%
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