Statistics for Biggest news of the Decade

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
And this person president of the USA in 2016	Donald Trump	100%
High tension between the USA and this country, which tested nuclear weapons in 2018	North Korea	95%
Russia takes over this peninsula in the black sea in 2014	Crimea	90%
This disease spreads rapidly in western Africa (mainly 2014)	Ebola	85%
In Operation Neptune Spear, US Soldiers kill this person in 2011	Osama bin Laden	85%
Independence Movement gets stronger in this "country" after Britain votes for Brexit in 2016	Scotland	85%
This Swedish girl starts "Fridays for Future" movement	Greta Thunberg	80%
This person is elected president of China in 2013	Xi Jinping	80%
This country becomes youngest UN member in 2011	South Sudan	70%
Earthquake kills hundreds of thousands of people in this country (2010)	Haiti	65%
Circa 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by accident in 2010 by this oil company	BP	60%
On the 7th of January 2015, Al-Qaeda members attack the office of this french satire magazine	Charlie Hebdo	60%
One of the worst nuclear accidents of the 2000s happened in this Japanese City in 2011	Fukushima	60%
This person leaks documents about surveillance of the NSA	Edward Snowden	55%
giant protests for autonomy happen in this city in 2019	Hong Kong	55%
Diesel Gate causes Martin Winterkorn, CEO of this brand to resign only a few days later	Volkswagen	55%
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	5%