Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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First city to have a major coronavirus outbreak | Wuhan | 93%
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Prime Minister of the U.K. who got coronavirus | Boris Johnson | 87%
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Couple who dropped their Royal Highness titles and moved to California, in an event dubbed "Megxit" | Prince Harry and Meghan Markle | 81%
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China and Nepal agree that this is exactly 8,848.86m in elevation | Mount Everest | 80%
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Video conferencing company which reached a market cap of over $100 billion | Zoom | 77%
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Mysterious dictator who disappeared for three weeks, leading to rumors of his demise | Kim Jong-un | 76%
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Place in the United States which recorded the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth, 130 °F (54.4 °C) | Death Valley | 67%
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Middle East city in which a storehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded with a force of about 1/10th of the Hiroshima bombing | Beirut | 64%
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Spaniard who won his 20th tennis Grand Slam title | Rafael Nadal | 60%
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Bond actor who died at the age of 90 | Sean Connery | 60%
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Commodity which traded at a negative price for the first time in history | Crude oil | 56%
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Chinese river basin which experienced major flooding | Yangtze | 49%
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President of Brazil who got coronavirus | Jair Bolsonaro | 47%
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Cruise ship that was the site of an early coronavirus outbreak | Diamond {Princess} | 46%
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City whose "one country, two systems" rights were once again eroded by the passage of a new security law | Hong Kong | 45%
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Istanbul museum, formerly a church, which was turned into a mosque | Hagia Sophia | 44%
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Disease declared eradicated in Nigeria, meaning it can now only be found in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Polio | 41%
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Island chain in the Pacific which voted NOT to become independent from France | New Caledonia | 24%
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