Statistics for History of the 21st Century

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
2003	This country is invaded by the United States	Iraq	94%
2001	This building in Washington D.C is struck by a plane	Pentagon	94%
2015	Liquid water is found here	Mars	89%
2005	This woman becomes chancellor of Germany	Angela Merkel	87%
2009	This cryptocurrency is launched	Bitcoin	84%
2006	This dictator is executed publicly	Saddam Hussein	80%
2011	Revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya mark the peak of this event	Arab Spring	74%
2018	This Chinese leader is declared "president for life"	Xi Jinping	69%
2000	This satellite received its first long-term residents	International Space Station	59%
2002	This country becomes independent in southeast Asia	East Timor	58%
2010	A 7.0 earthquake magnitude in this country kills 230,000	Haiti	55%
2017	This country tests a hydrogen bond	North Korea	50%
2014	A flight from this city disappears over the Indian Ocean	Kuala Lumpur	49%
2004	A tsunami kills hundreds of thousands on this holiday	Boxing Day	48%
2008	The Large Hadron Collider is built near this city	Geneva	42%
2007	This economic event strikes much of the world	Great Recession	42%
2016	An outbreak of this disease impacts most of the Americas	Zika	33%
2012	This ship sinks off the coast of Italy	Costa Concordia	26%
2013	A Meteor explodes over this Russian city	Chelyabinsk	15%