21st Century History Quiz

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	Hint	Answer
2000	Notorious prison in Northern Ireland closes	HM Prison Maze
2000	President Clinton becomes the first to visit _____ since US invasion	Vietnam
2001	World's largest public encyclopedia launches	Wikipedia
2001	This disease results in the culling of millions of livestock in UK	Foot and Mouth
2001	Airliners hit the Twin Towers in New York	September 11th Attacks
2001	America invades _______ as part of the "War on Terror"	Afghanistan
2002	Currency introduced in France, Spain and other EU states	Euro
2002	________ wins the World Cup in Yokohama	Brazil
2002	Department of _________ established by President Bush to protect USA	Homeland Security
2003	Country invaded by USA, UK and various others	Iraq
2003	Shenzou 5 is the first manned space flight for.......	China
2003	Huge earthquake killing thousands hits Bam in this country	Iran
2003	First US state to legalise same-sex marriage	Massachusetts
2004	Social network _______ is launched in Harvard	Facebook
2004	Mass bombing of public transport in Spanish city	Madrid
2004	Country becomes the first in Europe to ban smoking in enclosed public places	Republic of Ireland
2004	Huge tsunami hits Southeast Asia on this day	Boxing Day
2005	Pope _______ dies in April	John Paul II
2005	Concerts around the world for the Make Poverty History campaign	Live 8
2006	250th anniversary of the birth of ______ celebrated globally	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2006	_______ is sent off in the World Cup final for headbutting a player	Zinedine Zidane
2006	A supposed nuclear test is carried out by this Asian pariah state	North Korea
2007	The first version of this popular mobile device goes on sale	iPhone
2007	College massacre at American University kills 33	Virginia Tech Massacre
2007	A British child called ______ disappears from an apartment in Portugal	Madeleine McCann
2007	_______ is the last country in worldwide to make slavery illegal	Mauritania
2008	_______ resigns as President of Cuba	Fidel Castro

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2008	Almost 80,000 people perish in the _______ quake in Sichuan, China	Wenchuan
2008	Swimmer breaks the gold medal record at Beijing Olympics	Michael Phelps
2008	Testing begins at this device located at CERN in Geneva	Large Hadron Collider
2009	Outbreak of _____ flu worldwide	Swine
2009	The King of Pop is found dead in his California home	Michael Jackson
2009	Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi returns to ______	Libya
2010	The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building opens in this city	Dubai
2010	Eyjafjallajokull erupts in _____ grounding most European flights	Iceland
2010	Julian Assange's website _______ releases 250,000 US diplomatic cables	Wikileaks
2010	Protests in Tunisia begin series of protests in other countries known as the ___	Arab Spring
2011	President Obama announces that US have captured and killed _________	Osama Bin Laden
2011	New country established in Africa	South Sudan
2011	Anders Breivik murders 77 people in ____ after a bombing and mass shooting	Norway
2011	Libyan dictator killed as his state is toppled	Muammar Gaddafi
2012	Director ______ designs the opening ceremony for the London Olympics	Danny Boyle
2012	_______ rover lands on Mars successfully	Curiosity
2012	________ becomes the first human to break the sound barrier without using machine assistance in a spacedive from 24 miles high	Felix Baumgartner
2012	Legendary Astronomer and presenter __ ____ ____ dies at the age of 89	Sir Patrick Moore
2013	_____ explodes over Chelyabinsk in Russia causing widespread damage	Meteor
2013	Rana Plaza collapses in ____ becoming one of the worst and most lethal industrial disasters in history	Dhaka
2013	Pope ______ XVI becomes the first voluntarily resign since 1294	Benedict
2013	Whistleblower ______ leaks details of American mass surveillance programs to British newspaper The Guardian	Edward Snowden
2013	Euromaidan movement begins in ________	Ukraine
2014	President ______ of Ukraine is ousted by his parliament following 100 people being killed in protests in Kiev against pro-Russian policies	Yanukovych
2014	Flight MH370 disappears over Asia, prompting a huge search operation. The plane belonged to ______ _______	Malaysian Airlines
2014	______ is suspended from the G8 after annexing Crimea	Russia

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December 26 should be accepted for "Boxing Day". We don't call it that is the U.S.

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