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Question	Answer	% Correct
The September 11th, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon, made in response to perceived US support of Israel, US military presence in Saudi Arabia, and other foreign policy disapproved of by Osama bin Laden.	Terrorism	90%
ISIS' campaign of violence against the Yazidi people - a Christian minority in Iraq and Syria - the goal of which was to kill them all.	Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing	85%
The storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.	Attempted Insurrection	78%
The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing by the Tsarnayev brothers, purportedly in defense of Islam against American wars.	Terrorism	77%
The June, 1914 public killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalists who wished to achieve independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.	Assassination	76%
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh, who hoped to discourage what he saw as government attacks on individual liberties and particularly 2nd Amendment rights.	Terrorism	76%
The 2004 Madrid train bombings, by a group of Islamists and militants with possible ties to Al-Qaeda, that may have resulted in the Socialist party victory in the following election and Spanish withdrawal of troops from Iraq.	Terrorism	75%
A large mob, demonstrating their anger over the extra-judicial killing of George Floyd while in police custody, sets fire to downtown Minneapolis.	Riot	74%
The CIA's assassination of President John F Kennedy.	Debunked Conspiracy Theory	67%
Racist and White Supremacist Dylann Roof attends Bible study at a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, where he proceeds to execute the pastor and eight other African Americans in attendance while shouting racial hatred.	Hate Crime	67%
Targeted drone strikes against those labeled as terrorists by US predator drones, from 2004 - 2018	Assassination	64%
In March, 2001, the Taliban use explosives to destroy the Buddhas of Bamiyan - two ancient and gigantic statues that had been declared a UNESCO world heritage site. The Taliban explains their actions by calling the statues idols.	Religious Ignorance and Vandalism	64%
The 1974 Birmingham Pub Bombing by the Irish Republican Army, resulting in 21 deaths.	Terrorism	63%
President Donald Trump encouraging an angry mob in Washington DC to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021	Sedition against the United States	60%
A heavily armed Michigan militia occupy the state capitol in May, 2020, to express disapproval of the governor's COVID-19 lockdown orders.	Political Protest	53%
From 2000 to 2005, the 2nd Intifada results in near daily attacks against Israeli civilians in the form of suicide bombings, attacks on public spaces, and random killings. Not even including the thousands of Palestinians who died in retaliatory violence by the IDF, or who were executed as "collaborators," over a thousand Israelis were killed, the large majority of whom were civilian non-combatants including large numbers of women and children.	Terrorism	49%
The 2011 Oslo bombing and mass shooting at a nearby youth camp by Anders Breivik, who claimed to want to save Norway from liberal politicians, multiculturalism, and a "Muslim takeover."	Terrorism	48%
The August, 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which the USA dropped atomic bombs killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in order to force the surrender of Imperial Japan.	War Crime	48%
A large mob in Charlottesville, there to express disapproval for the removal of a statue honoring Confederate general Robert E Lee, march wielding tiki-torches and chanting various racist slogans. Violence with counter-protestors would not break out until the following day. (note: hate speech is not illegal in the US)	Peaceful Protest	46%
Israeli occupation of the "West Bank," from 1967 through the present, resulting in millions of people receiving different treatment from Israeli citizens despite being under the control of the same government.	Potential Human Rights Abuse	41%
ISIS' beheading of journalist James Foley, and posting a video of it to YouTube, protesting US airstrikes in Syria.	Murder	38%
In 1998 the Clinton administration orders a missile strike against the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, based on bad intelligence that the factory was being used to produce VX nerve gas. In reality the factory was just making medicine. The attack killed one, injured many, and hampered the facility's production of needed pharmaceuticals, affecting many more.	Friendly Fire	23%
Iraqi insurgents attack and attempt to gain control over a US Marine outpost in Anbar Province.	Tactical Use of Violence	20%