Timeline of the 21st Century

1. What terrorist group did the hijackers of 9/11 attacks represent?

2. How many passenger planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001 attacks?

3. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?

4. What was the name of that U.S. military operation?

5. Which Asian country gained its independence in 2002?

6. In which country War in Darfur started in 2003?

7. In which European capital train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000 people in 2004?

8. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013?

9. In 2005, what hurricane hit New Orleans, resulting in the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history?

10. Which of these luxury-liner cruise ships was attacked by pirates on November 5th, 2005?

11. On 14 February 2005, Rafic Hariri, the former Prime Minister of which country was killed in an explosion?

12. Which European county gained its independence in 2006?

13. In 2006, what Solar system planet was reclassified and became a dwarf planet?

14. How was former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executed in December 2006?

15. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?

16. Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but it is claimed by which country?

17. In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?

18. Which Caribbean country was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010 that killed 230,000 people?

19. Where did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster occurred in 2010?

20. The President of which country was among 96 killed when their airplane crashed in Smolensk on April 10, 2010?

21. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?

22. What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?

23. In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake in which country triggered a tsunami and the meltdown of the nuclear power plant?

24. Which company owned the Concordia cruise ship that ran aground in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2012?

25. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?

26. In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?

27. In 2014, Euromaidan protest in Ukraine sparked a revolution and the overthrow of which president?

28. What part of Ukraine did Russia annex in 2014?

29. Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?

30. Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?

31. In 2019, Macedonia and Greece reached a historic agreement in the Macedonia naming dispute. What is that country's new name?

32. It which city in China was SARS-CoV-2 virus first identified in December 2019?

33. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?

34. In which city the killing of George Floyd sparked protests across the United States and the world in 2020?