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Date	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mar. 26	This man is elected President of Russia for the first time.	Vladimir Putin	88%
July 31	Republican National Convention opens in Philadelphia, where this man is nominated for President.	George W. Bush	77%
Nov. 7	This woman becomes the first U.S. First Lady to win public office.	Hillary Rodham Clinton	71%
-	This golfer sets or ties 27 PGA Tour records during the year.	Tiger Woods	68%
Sept. 15	The Summer Olympics open in this southern-hemisphere city.	Sydney, Australia	65%
Aug. 14	Democratic National Convention opens in L.A., where this man is nominated for President.	Al Gore	64%
April 22	Feds seize 6-year old Elián González in Miami. After a long custody battle, he would be sent back to this country.	Cuba	64%
Aug. 12	All 118 crewmen die when the Kursk, a submarine belonging to this country, sinks in the Barents Sea.	Russia	62%
-	This player wins Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Olympics Women’s Singles tennis competitions.	Venus Williams	61%
Oct. 5	Downfall of Slobodan Milošević, President of this no-longer-extant country.	Yugoslavia	60%
June 19	This team wins the NBA finals, led by center Shaquille O'Neal.	L.A. Lakers	58%
Dec. 12	The U.S. Supreme Court stops the vote recount in this state, handing the Presidency to the Republican candidate.	Florida	57%
Feb. 23	This Mexican-American guitarist wins 8 Grammys.	Carlos Santana	55%
Mar. 26	The Oscars are dominated by this movie, starring Kevin Spacey as a man going through a mid-life crisis.	American Beauty	54%
July 26	The beginning of the end for this music file-sharing website, as a judge rules it must shut down.	Napster	53%
Feb. 12	This creator of Peanuts dies; the final original strip is published the next day.	Charles Schulz	52%
May 16	The decade’s best-selling album by a female artist is released. Name it or her.	Britney Spears -- Oops!… I Did It Again	49%
Feb. 17	Microsoft releases this version of Windows.	Windows 2000	47%
Oct. 26	This team defeats its crosstown rivals in the World Series.	New York Yankees	44%
July 10	After his father’s death, this man becomes Syria’s leader.	Bashar al-Assad	43%
Nov. 2	The first resident crew enters this orbiting craft.	International Space Station	42%
Jan. 10	The largest-ever corporate merger joins AOL and this media company.	Time Warner	37%
Aug. 5	Death of this great English actor, who you unfortunately know only as Obi-Wan Kenobi.	Sir Alec Guinness	32%
Aug. 8	The H.L. Hunley, a Confederate _________, is raised to the surface of Charleston Harbor.	submarine	32%
Jan. 30	This midwest team, led by QB Kurt Warner, defeats the Titans in the Super Bowl.	St. Louis Rams	31%
July 1	Death of this actor, whose movies include “Grumpy Old Men,” “The Odd Couple,” “Dennis the Menace,” and “The Bad News Bears.”	Walter Matthau	30%
Jan. 11	This troubled singer is caught at an airport with marijuana in her bag.	Whitney Houston	30%
-	The top-selling album of the year is “No Strings Attached,” by this group.	'N Sync	29%
July 2	This man is elected President of Mexico, ending 71 years of rule by the PRI.	Vicente Fox	26%
Oct. 12	This U.S. destroyer is badly damaged by Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in Yemen.	USS Cole	24%

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