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Biggest news of the Decade

Do you still know what happened this decade?
Quiz by EpiCon
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Last updated: December 21, 2019
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First submittedDecember 20, 2019
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Earthquake kills hundreds of thousands of people in this country (2010)
Haiti
On the 7th of January 2015, Al-Qaeda members attack the office of this french satire magazine
Charlie Hebdo
In Operation Neptune Spear, US Soldiers kill this person in 2011
Osama bin Laden
This disease spreads rapidly in western Africa (mainly 2014)
Ebola
This Swedish girl starts "Fridays for Future" movement
Greta Thunberg
Russia takes over this peninsula in the black sea in 2014
Crimea
Circa 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by accident in 2010 by this oil company
BP
One of the worst nuclear accidents of the 2000s happened in this Japanese City in 2011
Fukushima
This person is elected president of China in 2013
Xi Jinping
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And this person president of the USA in 2016
Donald Trump
giant protests for autonomy happen in this city in 2019
Hong Kong
Independence Movement gets stronger in this "country" after Britain votes for Brexit in 2016
Scotland
Diesel Gate causes Martin Winterkorn, CEO of this brand to resign only a few days later
Volkswagen
High tension between the USA and this country, which tested nuclear weapons in 2018
North Korea
This country becomes youngest UN member in 2011
South Sudan
Conspiracy theorists have to pay high compensations to victims of horrible shooting at this elementary school in 2012 for claiming "it was all faked"
Sandy Hooks
This person leaks documents about surveillance of the NSA
Edward Snowden
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