Statistics for Global Events of 2021

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 15 of 30

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Date	Event	Answer	% Correct
January 6	Pro-Trump protesters storm this building in Washington, D.C.	Capitol Building	94%
February 22	This country becomes the first to record over 500,000 COVID-19 deaths	United States	94%
April 9	This member of the British royal family dies aged 99	Prince Philip	88%
April 20	Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of the murder of this man	George Floyd	82%
August 15	This fundamentalist Islamist movement recaptures Kabul and overthrows the Afghan government	Taliban	82%
June 9	El Salvador adopts this currency as legal tender alongside the US dollar	Bitcoin	76%
January 6	Mass arrests of pro-democracy activists take place in this city	Hong Kong	76%
May 23	This country forces down a Ryanair flight to arrest a dissident journalist	Belarus	71%
February 19	The US rejoins this international agreement after leaving it under the Trump Administration	Paris Agreement	71%
June 13	This long-serving Israeli prime minister leaves office	Benjamin Netanyahu	65%
July 7	Jovenel Moise, the president of this country, is assassinated	Haiti	65%
January 29	The share price of this video game retailer peaks at $325 due to a Reddit-driven short squeeze	GameStop	59%
October 4	Unable to drive down Delta cases despite a hard lockdown, this country officially abandons its COVID-19 "elimination" or COVID-zero policy	New Zealand	53%
March 1	This former French president is convicted on corruption charges	Nicolas Sarkozy	53%
June 29	This former US secretary of defense dies aged 88	Donald Rumsfeld	47%
July 16	184 people are killed in flash flooding in this European country	Germany	47%
November 30	This Commonwealth Realm becomes a republic	Barbados	41%
December 6	Several countries announce a diplomatic boycott of this 2022 sporting event	Beijing Winter Olympics	41%
December 8	This person succeeds Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany	Olaf Scholz	41%
February 1	A military coup removes this leader from power in Myanmar	Aung San Suu Kyi	29%
November 29	The government of this country repeals agricultural legislation which had led to ongoing protests	India	29%
May 26	A Dutch court rules this company must align its emissions with the Paris Agreement	Shell	29%
December 31	At year's end, this is the only Australian state remaining COVID-free	Western Australia	29%
April 25	Aged 83, this man becomes the oldest person in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actor	Anthony Hopkins	24%
December 12	Voters in this French overseas territory reject independence in a referendum	New Caledonia	24%
September 15	This trilateral security pact is announced between the US, UK and Australia	AUKUS	18%
February 9	Hope becomes the first space probe from this country to enter orbit around Mars	United Arab Emirates	18%
March 23	This container ship becomes lodged in the Suez Canal	Ever Given	12%
October 15	This British MP is assassinated at a constituency surgery	David Amess	0%
December 25	This successor to the Hubble Telescope is launched	James Webb Telescope	0%