Statistics for Global Events of 2021

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  • This quiz has been taken 18 times
  • The average score is 14 of 30

Answer Stats

DateEventAnswer% Correct
January 6Pro-Trump protesters storm this building in Washington, D.C.Capitol Building
93%
February 22This country becomes the first to record over 500,000 COVID-19 deathsUnited States
93%
April 20Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of the murder of this manGeorge Floyd
87%
April 9This member of the British royal family dies aged 99Prince Philip
87%
August 15This fundamentalist Islamist movement recaptures Kabul and overthrows the Afghan governmentTaliban
87%
June 9El Salvador adopts this currency as legal tender alongside the US dollarBitcoin
80%
May 23This country forces down a Ryanair flight to arrest a dissident journalistBelarus
73%
January 6Mass arrests of pro-democracy activists take place in this cityHong Kong
73%
June 13This long-serving Israeli prime minister leaves officeBenjamin Netanyahu
67%
July 7Jovenel Moise, the president of this country, is assassinatedHaiti
67%
February 19The US rejoins this international agreement after leaving it under the Trump AdministrationParis Agreement
67%
January 29The share price of this video game retailer peaks at $325 due to a Reddit-driven short squeezeGameStop
53%
October 4Unable to drive down Delta cases despite a hard lockdown, this country officially abandons its COVID-19 "elimination" or COVID-zero policyNew Zealand
53%
June 29This former US secretary of defense dies aged 88Donald Rumsfeld
47%
July 16184 people are killed in flash flooding in this European countryGermany
47%
March 1This former French president is convicted on corruption chargesNicolas Sarkozy
47%
November 30This Commonwealth Realm becomes a republicBarbados
40%
December 6Several countries announce a diplomatic boycott of this 2022 sporting eventBeijing Winter Olympics
40%
December 8This person succeeds Angela Merkel as Chancellor of GermanyOlaf Scholz
40%
November 29The government of this country repeals agricultural legislation which had led to ongoing protestsIndia
27%
May 26A Dutch court rules this company must align its emissions with the Paris AgreementShell
27%
December 31At year's end, this is the only Australian state remaining COVID-freeWestern Australia
27%
April 25Aged 83, this man becomes the oldest person in history to win the Academy Award for Best ActorAnthony Hopkins
20%
February 1A military coup removes this leader from power in MyanmarAung San Suu Kyi
20%
December 12Voters in this French overseas territory reject independence in a referendumNew Caledonia
20%
September 15This trilateral security pact is announced between the US, UK and AustraliaAUKUS
13%
March 23This container ship becomes lodged in the Suez CanalEver Given
7%
February 9Hope becomes the first space probe from this country to enter orbit around MarsUnited Arab Emirates
7%
October 15This British MP is assassinated at a constituency surgeryDavid Amess
0%
December 25This successor to the Hubble Telescope is launchedJames Webb Telescope
0%

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