Year | Question | Answer | % Correct |
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2006 | What was demoted to a 'dwarf planet'? | Pluto | 97%
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2008 | This social media site gets 100 million active users. | 90%
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2006 | Google buys this video sharing website | YouTube | 81%
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2004 | Which country was worst hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami? | Indonesia | 76%
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2005 | Which city's levee's were breached when Hurricane Katrina hit? | New Orleans | 76%
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2002 | Who wins the FIFA World Cup for the fifth time? | Brazil | 74%
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2001 | What group coordinated the attacks on 9/11? | Al-Qaeda | 70%
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2009 | Which artist died of a heart attack before his tour This Is It? | Michael Jackson | 67%
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2000 | What disease, mainly in the UK, resulted in 4 million cattle being slaughtered? | Mad Cow Disease | 63%
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2003 | What was the name of the Dan Brown novel that sold 80 million copies? | The Da Vinci Code | 58%
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2009 | What strain of influenza killed 14,000 people worldwide? | H1N1 | 52%
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2000 | What game console is released, eventually becoming the best selling of all time? | PlayStation 2 | 49%
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2001 | This country became the first country to fully legalize same sex marriage. | Netherlands | 47%
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2007 | Time magazine calls this the invention of the year | iPhone | 42%
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2003 | What US Government department was created in response to the attacks? | Homeland Security | 38%
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2004 | This MMORPG was created, based in the world of Azeroth | World of Warcraft | 37%
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2007 | What type of mortgages caused the Financial Crisis? | {Sub}prime | 34%
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2002 | Which tourist island sees 202 people killed in 2 nightclub bombs? | Bali | 28%
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2006 | The name of Al Gore's climate change documentary | An Inconvenient Truth | 27%
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2008 | Which organization opened the Large Hadron Collider under Geneva? | CERN | 25%
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