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Timeline of the 21st Century

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