Statistics for The 21st Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
2022	Russia invades this country	Ukraine	100%
2008	This person is elected as the first African-American President of the U.S.	Barack Obama	92%
2009	This sprinter sets a new record for the 100m dash: 9.58 seconds	Usain Bolt	88%
2019	The Covid-19 pandemic starts in this city	Wuhan	88%
2003	The U.S. invades this country, looking for weapons of mass destruction, but doesn't find any	Iraq	87%
2014–15	An outbreak of this disease kills more than 10,000 people in West Africa	Ebola	85%
2004	This website is started in a Harvard dorm room	Facebook	84%
2015	A record 1.3 million people request asylum in the EU, with the largest number coming from this wartorn nation	Syria	81%
2004	This type of natural disaster kills over 200,000 people in 14 countries	Tsunami	81%
2001	This terrorist organization launches the 9/11 attacks against the United States	Al-Qaeda	79%
2005	This person is elected as the first female chancellor of Germany	Angela Merkel	78%
2008	This swimmer wins 8 gold medals at the Summer Olympics	Michael Phelps	78%
2015	195 nations meet in this city and agree to lower carbon emissions, but generally fail to meet their commitments	Paris	73%
2011	This international protest movement leads to the overthrow of the governments of Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya	The {Arab} Spring	73%
2011	This African nation becomes the 193rd member of the UN	South Sudan	69%
2012	This leader ascends to power in China, marking an era of increased state surveillance and abuse of ethnic minorities	Xi Jinping	69%
2001	This country becomes the first in the world to legalize same-sex marriage	Netherlands	64%
2008	The world enters a sharp economic downturn which is commonly known as this	The Great {Recession}	60%
2003	Scientists announce the completion of a project to sequence this	The Human Genome	41%
2005	This dwarf planet, 27% larger than Pluto, is dicovered and named for the Greek goddess of discord	Eris	29%