Statistics for Current Events by Year, 2010–present

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2022	Country invaded by Russia	Ukraine	100%
2016	Controversial celebrity elected President of the U.S.	Donald Trump	94%
2010	City where Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, opened	Dubai	91%
2012	Monarch who celebrated her diamond jubilee	Queen Elizabeth II	87%
2020	City where the first major Covid-19 outbreak began	Wuhan	87%
2018	Place where liquid water was discovered	Mars	80%
2014	Peninsula annexed by Russia	Crimea	78%
2013	New pope who was elected – the first from the Americas	Francis	78%
2019	City where up to 1 million people protested against the Chinese government	Hong Kong	75%
2011	Series of protests which rocked the Middle East	The {Arab} Spring	75%
2017	Region whose parliament declared independence from Spain	Catalonia	73%
2015	Climate change accord signed by 195 countries	{Paris} Agreement	69%
2021	Highly contagious, but less deadly, Covid variant which swept the world and eventually led to the end of the pandemic	Omicron	55%
2023	Company that released GPT-4	OpenAI	52%