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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2003	Country invaded by USA, UK and various others	Iraq	92%
2002	Currency introduced in France, Spain and other EU states	Euro	86%
2001	America invades _______ as part of the "War on Terror"	Afghanistan	82%
2004	Social network _______ is launched in Harvard	Facebook	81%
2011	President Obama announces that US have captured and killed _________	Osama Bin Laden	75%
2009	The King of Pop is found dead in his California home	Michael Jackson	74%
2001	Airliners hit the Twin Towers in New York	September 11th Attacks	74%
2001	World's largest public encyclopedia launches	Wikipedia	74%
2010	The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building opens in this city	Dubai	69%
2010	Eyjafjallajokull erupts in _____ grounding most European flights	Iceland	65%
2007	The first version of this popular mobile device goes on sale	iPhone	65%
2014	______ is suspended from the G8 after annexing Crimea	Russia	65%
2008	Swimmer breaks the gold medal record at Beijing Olympics	Michael Phelps	63%
2006	A supposed nuclear test is carried out by this Asian pariah state	North Korea	62%
2004	Mass bombing of public transport in Spanish city	Madrid	61%
2003	Shenzou 5 is the first manned space flight for.......	China	60%
2005	Pope _______ dies in April	John Paul II	60%
2010	Julian Assange's website _______ releases 250,000 US diplomatic cables	Wikileaks	59%
2002	________ wins the World Cup in Yokohama	Brazil	57%
2011	New country established in Africa	South Sudan	56%
2009	Outbreak of _____ flu worldwide	Swine	56%
2008	_______ resigns as President of Cuba	Fidel Castro	53%
2011	Anders Breivik murders 77 people in ____ after a bombing and mass shooting	Norway	53%
2003	Huge earthquake killing thousands hits Bam in this country	Iran	50%
2010	Protests in Tunisia begin series of protests in other countries known as the ___	Arab Spring	48%
2013	Pope ______ XVI becomes the first voluntarily resign since 1294	Benedict	44%
2002	Department of _________ established by President Bush to protect USA	Homeland Security	42%
2011	Libyan dictator killed as his state is toppled	Muammar Gaddafi	40%
2006	_______ is sent off in the World Cup final for headbutting a player	Zinedine Zidane	39%
2000	President Clinton becomes the first to visit _____ since US invasion	Vietnam	38%
2004	Huge tsunami hits Southeast Asia on this day	Boxing Day	37%
2009	Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi returns to ______	Libya	36%
2013	Whistleblower ______ leaks details of American mass surveillance programs to British newspaper The Guardian	Edward Snowden	34%
2014	Flight MH370 disappears over Asia, prompting a huge search operation. The plane belonged to ______ _______	Malaysian Airlines	31%
2007	College massacre at American University kills 33	Virginia Tech Massacre	25%
2001	This disease results in the culling of millions of livestock in UK	Foot and Mouth	24%
2003	First US state to legalise same-sex marriage	Massachusetts	24%
2004	Country becomes the first in Europe to ban smoking in enclosed public places	Republic of Ireland	23%
2013	_____ explodes over Chelyabinsk in Russia causing widespread damage	Meteor	19%
2008	Testing begins at this device located at CERN in Geneva	Large Hadron Collider	17%
2013	Euromaidan movement begins in ________	Ukraine	17%
2007	A British child called ______ disappears from an apartment in Portugal	Madeleine McCann	14%
2012	Director ______ designs the opening ceremony for the London Olympics	Danny Boyle	13%
2012	_______ rover lands on Mars successfully	Curiosity	12%
2000	Notorious prison in Northern Ireland closes	HM Prison Maze	12%
2012	________ becomes the first human to break the sound barrier without using machine assistance in a spacedive from 24 miles high	Felix Baumgartner	9%
2005	Concerts around the world for the Make Poverty History campaign	Live 8	7%
2007	_______ is the last country in worldwide to make slavery illegal	Mauritania	7%
2012	Legendary Astronomer and presenter __ ____ ____ dies at the age of 89	Sir Patrick Moore	7%
2006	250th anniversary of the birth of ______ celebrated globally	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	6%
2013	Rana Plaza collapses in ____ becoming one of the worst and most lethal industrial disasters in history	Dhaka	5%
2014	President ______ of Ukraine is ousted by his parliament following 100 people being killed in protests in Kiev against pro-Russian policies	Yanukovych	5%
2008	Almost 80,000 people perish in the _______ quake in Sichuan, China	Wenchuan	1%