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Timeline of the 21st Century

How well do you remember historical events since 2000?
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Last updated: October 11, 2022
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1. What terrorist group did the hijackers of 9/11 attacks represent?
Hamas
Al-Qaeda
ISIS
Boko Haram
2. How many passenger planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001 attacks?
Two
Four
Three
Five
3. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?
War in Iraq
War in Israel
War in Syria
War in Afghanistan
4. What was the name of that U.S. military operation?
Project Overlord
Neptune
Enduring Freedom
Operation Desert Fox
5. Which Asian country gained its independence in 2002?
Brunei
Maldives
East Timor
New Caledonia
6. In which country War in Darfur started in 2003?
Israel
Ukraine
Sudan
Syria
7. In which European capital train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000 people in 2004?
Paris
Prague
Madrid
Berlin
8. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013?
Francis
Benedict XVI
Pius XII
John Paul II
9. In 2005, what hurricane hit New Orleans, resulting in the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history?
Andrew
Maria
Sandy
Katrina
10. Which of these luxury-liner cruise ships was attacked by pirates on November 5th, 2005?
The Seabourn Spirit
The Queen Mary II
Carnival Conquest
The Jewel of the Seas
11. On 14 February 2005, Rafic Hariri, the former Prime Minister of which country was killed in an explosion?
Iran
Lebanon
Oman
Yemen
12. Which European county gained its independence in 2006?
Slovakia
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Kosovo
13. In 2006, what Solar system planet was reclassified and became a dwarf planet?
Mercury
Uranus
Pluto
Mars
14. How was former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executed in December 2006?
Electrocution
Lethal injection
Firing squad
Hanging
15. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?
Indonesia
Iraq
Pakistan
India
16. Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but it is claimed by which country?
Serbia
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Albania
17. In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?
Tunisia
Libya
Yemen
Egypt
18. Which Caribbean country was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010 that killed 230,000 people?
Montserrat
Cuba
Jamaica
Haiti
19. Where did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster occurred in 2010?
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Mexico
Hudson Bay
20. The President of which country was among 96 killed when their airplane crashed in Smolensk on April 10, 2010?
Greece
Serbia
Poland
Finland
21. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
22. What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Anwar Sadat
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Hosni Mubarak
23. In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake in which country triggered a tsunami and the meltdown of the nuclear power plant?
Japan
North Korea
Indonesia
Malaysia
24. Which company owned the Concordia cruise ship that ran aground in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2012?
AIDA
Costa
Royal Caribbean
Celebrity
25. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?
Etihad Airways
Thai Airways
Malaysia Airlines
Singapore Airlines
26. In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Guinea
Morocco
27. In 2014, Euromaidan protest in Ukraine sparked a revolution and the overthrow of which president?
Viktor Yanukovych
Petro Poroshenko
Leonid Kuchma
Viktor Yushchenko
28. What part of Ukraine did Russia annex in 2014?
Donetsk
Crimea
Luhansk
Kharkiv
29. Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?
Swaziland
Lesotho
Benin
Guinea
30. Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?
George Weah
Abedi Pele
Didier Drogba
Roger Milla
31. In 2019, Macedonia and Greece reached a historic agreement in the Macedonia naming dispute. What is that country's new name?
Western Macedonia
North Macedonia
Eastern Macedonia
South Macedonia
32. It which city in China was SARS-CoV-2 virus first identified in December 2019?
Wuhan
Nanjing
Shanghai
Hangzhou
33. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?
Aleppo
Tel Aviv
Damascus
Beirut
34. In which city the killing of George Floyd sparked protests across the United States and the world in 2020?
Cleveland
Detroit
Minneapolis
Buffalo
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