Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1990–2009

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2006	Celestial body demoted to "dwarf" planet	Pluto	94%
2003	Country invaded by the U.S.	Iraq	92%
2009	Singer who died from prescription drugs issued by his personal physician	Michael Jackson	92%
2002	Country which won its fifth FIFA World Cup	Brazil	90%
2004	Type of disaster which killed over 200,000 along the coast of the Indian Ocean	Tsunami	90%
1999	Major new currency which was introduced	Euro	89%
2001	Building which, in addition to the World Trade Center, was attacked by 9/11 terrorists	The Pentagon	88%
1997	Celebrity who died in Paris after being chased by paparazzi	Princess Diana	87%
2008	Country whose coastline saw an outbreak of piracy	Somalia	86%
1991	Major world power which ceased to exist on December 31	Soviet Union	84%
1994	System of racial segregation which came to an end in South Africa	Apartheid	82%
1993	Basketball star who announced his retirement in order to play baseball	Michael Jordan	76%
1990	Country invaded by Iraq	Kuwait	71%
1996	Disease which caused the EU to ban imports of British beef	Mad Cow	68%
2000	Candidate who lost his bid to become U.S. president by just 537 votes in Florida	Al Gore	67%
2007	U.K. Prime Minister who left office after 10 years	Tony Blair	65%
1992	City which saw riots after police were acquitted for beating Rodney King	Los Angeles	62%
1998	Island where the Good Friday Agreement was signed	Ireland	56%
2005	Body part which French surgeons became the first to transplant	Face	43%
1995	Nerve gas that Aum Shinrikyo used in its terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway	Sarin	38%