Statistics for Events in Europe 2001-2020 #2

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year	hint	answer	% Correct
2010	Eyjafjallajökull erupts in this country, closing European airspace for several days	Iceland	90%
2017	Montenegro becomes the 29th member of this organisation	NATO	88%
2012	The cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off this country's coast	Italy	85%
2014	Viktor Yanukovych, this country's president, is overthrown	Ukraine	83%
2005	In Germany, Angela Merkel becomes the first woman to assume this position	chancellor	75%
2003	This Swedish climate activist is born	Greta Thunberg	73%
2002	The war crimes trial of this former Yugoslav president starts in the Netherlands	Slobodan Milošević	63%
2004	Edvard Munch's The Scream is stolen from a museum in this city	Oslo	55%
2013	High-speed Spanish train derails on a curve near this city, killing 79	{Santiago} de Compostela	55%
2001	This building is reopened after 11 years of work to stabilise it	Leaning Tower of Pisa	53%
2020	This city hosts the semi-finals and final of UEFA Euro 2020	London	53%
2016	The world-record 57km-long Gotthard Base railway tunnel opens in the country	Switzerland	53%
2006	This city near the Swiss Alps hosts the Winter Olympics	Turin	50%
2011	This London-born, seven-times married, actress dies	Elizabeth Taylor	48%
2019	This becomes the first EU country to be declared "not free" by Freedom House, an NGO	Hungary	48%
2018	This Spanish separatist group dissolves after 40 years of operation	ETA	45%
2008	Malta joins the euro, featuring this on its €1 and €2 coins	Maltese {Cross}	45%
2015	Gay marriage is legalised when 62% vote in favour in this country's referendum	Ireland	43%
2007	This high-speed train reaches a top speed of 574 km/h (357 mph)	TGV	35%
2009	This country gains self-rule after a 75% referendum vote in favour	Greenland	10%