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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who became the first black President of South Africa?	Nelson Mandela	97%
In what city did Princess Diana die?	Paris	90%
What disease infected 180,000 British cows?	Mad Cow	80%
Whose trial for murder in 1995 was dubbed "the trial of the century" by U.S. media?	O.J. Simpson	77%
What British musical group popularized the slogan "Girl Power"?	Spice Girls	77%
What was the name of the cloned sheep, the first of her kind, who was born in 1996?	Dolly	71%
Who was elected Prime Minister of the U.K. in 1997?	Tony Blair	69%
What was the only thing that Amazon.com sold when it started in 1994?	Books	66%
What country gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993?	Eritrea	66%
What city experienced riots after the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted?	Los Angeles	66%
What groundbreaking film by Quentin Tarantino lost out to "Forrest Gump" at the 1994 Academy Awards?	Pulp Fiction	62%
Who became the first democratically-elected President of Russia?	Boris Yeltsin	57%
What city's Petronas Towers became the world's tallest buildings?	Kuala Lumpur	57%
What tribe committed genocide against the Tutsis?	The Hutus	52%
On what religious holiday was an important Northern Ireland peace treaty signed?	Good Friday	50%
What became, in 1995, the first full-length CGI film to hit theaters?	Toy Story	46%
What was detected outside of the solar system for the first time?	Planets	43%
What nerve gas killed 13 people in the Tokyo subway?	Sarin	39%
What terrorist (to some, a freedom fighter) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after signing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords?	Yasser Arafat	30%
What famous person died just 5 days after Princess Diana?	Mother Teresa	23%