Date | Event | Answer | % Correct |
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January 6 | Pro-Trump protesters storm this building in Washington, D.C. | Capitol Building | 93%
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February 22 | This country becomes the first to record over 500,000 COVID-19 deaths | United States | 93%
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April 20 | Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of the murder of this man | George Floyd | 87%
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April 9 | This member of the British royal family dies aged 99 | Prince Philip | 87%
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August 15 | This fundamentalist Islamist movement recaptures Kabul and overthrows the Afghan government | Taliban | 87%
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June 9 | El Salvador adopts this currency as legal tender alongside the US dollar | Bitcoin | 80%
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May 23 | This country forces down a Ryanair flight to arrest a dissident journalist | Belarus | 73%
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January 6 | Mass arrests of pro-democracy activists take place in this city | Hong Kong | 73%
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June 13 | This long-serving Israeli prime minister leaves office | Benjamin Netanyahu | 67%
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July 7 | Jovenel Moise, the president of this country, is assassinated | Haiti | 67%
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February 19 | The US rejoins this international agreement after leaving it under the Trump Administration | Paris Agreement | 67%
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January 29 | The share price of this video game retailer peaks at $325 due to a Reddit-driven short squeeze | GameStop | 53%
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October 4 | Unable to drive down Delta cases despite a hard lockdown, this country officially abandons its COVID-19 "elimination" or COVID-zero policy | New Zealand | 53%
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June 29 | This former US secretary of defense dies aged 88 | Donald Rumsfeld | 47%
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July 16 | 184 people are killed in flash flooding in this European country | Germany | 47%
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March 1 | This former French president is convicted on corruption charges | Nicolas Sarkozy | 47%
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November 30 | This Commonwealth Realm becomes a republic | Barbados | 40%
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December 6 | Several countries announce a diplomatic boycott of this 2022 sporting event | Beijing Winter Olympics | 40%
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December 8 | This person succeeds Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany | Olaf Scholz | 40%
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November 29 | The government of this country repeals agricultural legislation which had led to ongoing protests | India | 27%
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May 26 | A Dutch court rules this company must align its emissions with the Paris Agreement | Shell | 27%
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December 31 | At year's end, this is the only Australian state remaining COVID-free | Western Australia | 27%
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April 25 | Aged 83, this man becomes the oldest person in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actor | Anthony Hopkins | 20%
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February 1 | A military coup removes this leader from power in Myanmar | Aung San Suu Kyi | 20%
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December 12 | Voters in this French overseas territory reject independence in a referendum | New Caledonia | 20%
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September 15 | This trilateral security pact is announced between the US, UK and Australia | AUKUS | 13%
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March 23 | This container ship becomes lodged in the Suez Canal | Ever Given | 7%
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February 9 | Hope becomes the first space probe from this country to enter orbit around Mars | United Arab Emirates | 7%
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October 15 | This British MP is assassinated at a constituency surgery | David Amess | 0%
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December 25 | This successor to the Hubble Telescope is launched | James Webb Telescope | 0%
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