- 1. Who became the first female prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago in 2010?
A) Dilma Rousseff
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Julia Gillard
D) Kamla Persad-Bissessar
- 2. Where did the airplane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczyński take place?
A) Tunis, Tunisia
B) Smolensk, Russia
C) Abbottabad, Pakistan
D) Warsaw, Poland
- 3. Which country hosted the FIFA World Cup for the first time in Africa in 2010?
A) Nigeria
B) Brazil
C) Egypt
D) South Africa
- 4. In what year did Julia Gillard become the first female Prime Minister of Australia?
A) 2010
B) 2011
C) 2009
D) 2012
- 5. Dilma Rousseff was elected as the first female president of which country?
A) Brazil
B) Chile
C) Trinidad and Tobago
D) Argentina
- 6. Which movement, beginning in Tunisia in 2010, spread across the Middle East?
A) The Arab Spring
B) The Green Revolution
C) The Velvet Revolution
D) The Occupy movement
- 7. What disaster occurred in Japan in 2011 involving a nuclear power plant?
A) Tokyo
B) Nagasaki
C) Hiroshima
D) Fukushima Daiichi
- 8. Which U.S. military unit killed Osama bin Laden in 2011?
A) Marine Raiders
B) Delta Force
C) SEAL Team 6
D) Green Berets
- 9. Which newspaper shut down in 2011 due to a phone hacking scandal?
A) The Times
B) News of the World
C) The Guardian
D) The Sun
- 10. Which country became a member of the United Nations in July 2011?
A) North Korea
B) Libya
C) Tunisia
D) South Sudan
- 11. What international protest movement against social and economic inequality began in 2011?
A) Climate Strike
B) Occupy movement
C) Arab Spring
D) Black Lives Matter
- 12. Who was killed by the National Liberation Army of Libya in 2011?
A) Lech Kaczyński
B) Silvio Berlusconi
C) Kim Jong-il
D) Muammar Gaddafi
- 13. Which Italian Prime Minister resigned in 2011?
A) Silvio Berlusconi
B) Muammar Gaddafi
C) Lech Kaczyński
D) Benigno Aquino III
- 14. In what year was the Iraq War formally declared over?
A) 2010
B) 2012
C) 2009
D) 2011
- 15. Who succeeded Kim Jong-il as the leader of North Korea in 2011?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Benigno Aquino III
C) Kim Jong-un
D) Muammar Gaddafi
- 16. Who became Africa's first elected female head of state in 2006?
A) Mwai Kibaki
B) Pratibha Patil
C) Ismail Haniyeh
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 17. Which social media platform was founded on March 21, 2006?
A) Twitter
B) Facebook
C) LinkedIn
D) Instagram
- 18. Who were the founders of Spotify?
A) Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon
B) Jack Dorsey and Noah Glass
C) Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
D) Biz Stone and Evan Williams
- 19. Which two nations emerged from the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro?
A) Bulgaria and Romania
B) Serbia and Montenegro
C) North and South Korea
D) Israel and Lebanon
- 20. In 2006, which country conducted its first nuclear test?
A) India
B) Lebanon
C) North Korea
D) Serbia
- 21. When was the ceasefire signed to end the 2006 Lebanon war?
A) October 9
B) August 14
C) March 21
D) July 12
- 22. Which countries joined the European Union on January 1, 2007?
A) Israel and Lebanon
B) Bulgaria and Romania
C) Serbia and Montenegro
D) India and Kenya
- 23. Who introduced the original iPhone in 2007?
A) Daniel Ek
B) Jack Dorsey
C) Steve Jobs
D) Martin Lorentzon
- 24. What led to the Boston hoax bomb scare in 2007?
A) A nuclear test
B) The Treaty of Lisbon
C) A presidential election
D) Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED placards
- 25. Who became the first woman to be elected President of India in 2007?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Pratibha Patil
C) Raila Odinga
D) Mahmoud Abbas
- 26. When did the Treaty of Lisbon come into effect?
A) August 14, 2006
B) December 1, 2009
C) January 1, 2007
D) December 13, 2007
- 27. Which political group took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007?
A) Hamas
B) Fatah
C) Hezbollah
D) The State Union
- 28. Who served as the Prime Minister in the coalition government formed after the 2007 Kenyan election?
A) Ismail Haniyeh
B) Raila Odinga
C) Mahmoud Abbas
D) Mwai Kibaki
- 29. The 21st century is the first century of which millennium?
A) 4th millennium
B) 1st millennium
C) 3rd millennium
D) 2nd millennium
- 30. Which event was officially referred to as the 'twenty-ten Olympics'?
A) The Sochi Olympics
B) The Vancouver Olympics
C) The Beijing Olympics
D) The London Olympics
- 31. What percentage of Indian births were girls in 2014?
A) 45%
B) 47%
C) 53%
D) 50%
- 32. When were the first genetically modified children born?
A) August 2023
B) November 2014
C) November 2018
D) January 2001
- 33. By how much did global suicide rates decline between 2000 and 2018?
A) 18%
B) 29%
C) 10%
D) 47%
- 34. By how much did suicide rates rise in the United States between 2000 and 2018?
A) 5%
B) 29%
C) 10%
D) 18%
- 35. According to the text, the total amount of human knowledge up to 2003 was estimated at how much data?
A) One exabyte
B) Five exabytes
C) Ten exabytes
D) Fifty exabytes
- 36. As of 2024, what portion of the Internet is comprised of mass-produced AI slop?
A) Over half
B) Two-thirds
C) Exactly 25%
D) Under 10%
- 37. What percentage of the world's population was online as of 2023?
A) 8.6%
B) 50%
C) 67%
D) 78%
- 38. What percentage of people aged 10 and above owned a mobile phone as of 2023?
A) 67%
B) 78%
C) 90%
D) 50%
- 39. Who was the first space tourist?
A) The Chinese space agency
B) Dennis Tito
C) The Indian space agency
D) Chandrayaan-3
- 40. On what date did China land a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon?
A) 3 January 2019
B) 1 January 2001
C) 23 August 2023
D) November 2018
- 41. Which mission saw India become the first country to touch down near the lunar south pole?
A) The 2019 Chinese Moon mission
B) The Dennis Tito mission
C) The Vancouver Olympics
D) Chandrayaan-3
- 42. What is the term for the trend of declining war and violence in the West post-World War II?
A) The Great Pacification
B) Long Peace
C) New World Order
D) Global Harmony
- 43. What percentage of the world's population lived in extreme poverty in 2022?
A) 14%
B) 9%
C) 21%
D) 37.9%
- 44. By what year is the world population projected to reach nearly 9.8 billion?
A) 2030
B) 2050
C) 2022
D) 2080
- 45. What percentage of the world population is projected to live in megacities by 2080?
A) 90%
B) 70%
C) 60%
D) 80%
- 46. Which data scandal drew international attention to the influence of social media on elections?
A) Facebook–Cambridge Analytica
B) WikiLeaks
C) Panama Papers
D) Snowden Leaks
- 47. What life expectancy was achieved by a baby born in 2019?
A) 73 years
B) 100 years
C) 80 years
D) 65 years
- 48. Who described climate change as an 'existential threat' to humanity?
A) The IPCC
B) The United Nations General Assembly
C) The World Health Organization
D) António Guterres
- 49. What event is described as the sixth-most significant extinction event in Earth's history?
A) Holocene extinction
B) Cretaceous extinction
C) Permian extinction
D) Anthropocene extinction
- 50. What proportion of the UK population is expected to live to 100 or older?
A) 10%
B) 5%
C) 20%
D) 16%
- 51. How many years longer does a baby born in 2019 live compared to one born in 1950?
A) 35 years
B) 27 years
C) 10 years
D) 15 years
- 52. By what year is the world population projected to reach 8.6 billion?
A) 2050
B) 2022
C) 2080
D) 2030
- 53. Which country emerged as a global superpower and the world's largest economy by some measures by the 2010s?
A) Japan
B) China
C) India
D) United States
- 54. Around 2011, which country's economy became more significant than Japan's based on purchasing power parity?
A) Brazil
B) China
C) India
D) Germany
- 55. By 2019, how much had the production output of first-world manufacturing sectors increased compared to 1984?
A) Tripled
B) Remained the same
C) Decreased by half
D) Doubled
- 56. What percentage of children entering primary school will work in jobs that do not currently exist, according to a 2018 World Economic Forum forecast?
A) 35%
B) 80%
C) 50%
D) 65%
- 57. What proportion of the world's population speaks the top 20 languages?
A) 90%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) 25%
- 58. Who became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after Laurent Kabila's assassination in 2001?
A) A Rwandan diplomat
B) Joseph Kabila
C) A rebel leader
D) A UN representative
- 59. What is a major reason cited for the call to raise the retirement age in the 21st century?
A) Technological overabundance
B) High taxes
C) Decrease in population
D) Increase in life expectancy
- 60. Most languages that are not among the top 20 spoken languages are used by communities of what size?
A) More than 100,000 speakers
B) Exactly 50,000 speakers
C) Over 1 million speakers
D) Fewer than 10,000 speakers
- 61. Who was inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States on January 20, 2001?
A) George W. Bush
B) Barack Obama
C) Bill Clinton
D) Ronald Reagan
- 62. Which country became the first to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001?
A) France
B) Belgium
C) Canada
D) The Netherlands
- 63. In which country did the royal massacre occur on June 1, 2001?
A) Bhutan
B) Thailand
C) Cambodia
D) Nepal
- 64. How many commercial airliners were hijacked during the September 11 attacks?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 3
D) 2
- 65. In what year did NATO forces officially end combat operations in Afghanistan?
A) 2001
B) 2011
C) 2014
D) 2021
- 66. What official currency was introduced in Eurozone countries on January 1, 2002?
A) Euro
B) Pound
C) Dollar
D) Franc
- 67. Which queen celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 2002?
A) Beatrix
B) Margrethe II
C) Victoria
D) Elizabeth II
- 68. In which city were the 2002 Winter Olympics held?
A) Salt Lake City
B) Nagano
C) Turin
D) Vancouver
- 69. Who founded SpaceX on March 14, 2002?
A) Richard Branson
B) Elon Musk
C) Jeff Bezos
D) Larry Page
- 70. Which neutral country became a member of the United Nations on September 10, 2002?
A) Switzerland
B) Austria
C) Sweden
D) Finland
- 71. Who became the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2002?
A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Xi Jinping
C) Hu Jintao
D) Jiang Zemin
- 72. What event caused over 20,000 deaths in India on January 26, 2001?
A) An earthquake
B) A train accident
C) A tsunami
D) A flood
- 73. Which Sudanese president was charged by the ICC for crimes against humanity and war crimes?
A) Saddam Hussein
B) Ali Abdullah Saleh
C) Omar al-Bashir
D) Muammar Gaddafi
- 74. On what date did the U.S.-led coalition invade Iraq?
A) December 19, 2003
B) March 20, 2003
C) January 10, 2003
D) November 17, 2003
- 75. Where did the Rose Revolution take place?
A) Sudan
B) Georgia
C) Serbia
D) Montenegro
- 76. Who became the Governor of California on November 17, 2003?
A) George W. Bush
B) Omar al-Bashir
C) Muammar Gaddafi
D) Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 77. How many people died in the 2004 Madrid train bombings?
A) 150
B) 191
C) 300
D) 250
- 78. Who became the first woman re-elected as President of the Philippines in 2004?
A) Corazon Aquino
B) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
C) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
D) Indira Gandhi
- 79. At what age did former U.S. president Ronald Reagan die in 2004?
A) 89
B) 87
C) 95
D) 93
- 80. In which city did Chechen rebels hold hostages at a school in September 2004?
A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) Beslan
D) Grozny
- 81. What political event took place in Ukraine between 2004 and 2005?
A) Velvet Revolution
B) Orange Revolution
C) Rose Revolution
D) Green Revolution
- 82. Which U.S. state was the first to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004?
A) Vermont
B) Massachusetts
C) New York
D) California
- 83. What natural disaster caused the death of 227,898 people on December 26, 2004?
A) Japanese tsunami
B) Haiti earthquake
C) Hurricane Katrina
D) Indian Ocean tsunami
- 84. Who was the first person to survive rabies without a vaccination?
A) Jeanna Giese
B) Angela Merkel
C) Jawed Karim
D) Michael E. Brown
- 85. Which dwarf planet was discovered in 2005 by Michael E. Brown?
A) Ceres
B) Eris
C) Pluto
D) Makemake
- 86. Which moon did the Huygens spacecraft land on in January 2005?
A) Europa
B) Io
C) Titan
D) Enceladus
- 87. Which treaty came into effect on February 16, 2005?
A) Geneva Convention
B) Treaty of Rome
C) Paris Agreement
D) Kyoto Protocol
- 88. What was the death toll of the London suicide bombings on July 7, 2005?
A) 40
B) 56
C) 100
D) 70
- 89. Who became the first female Chancellor of Germany in 2005?
A) Margaret Thatcher
B) Angela Merkel
C) Theresa May
D) Golda Meir
- 90. In which country did the Tulip Revolution occur in 2005?
A) Kyrgyzstan
B) Ukraine
C) Georgia
D) Lebanon
- 91. Yasser Arafat died in 2004 from what medical condition?
A) Hemorrhagic stroke
B) Cancer
C) Pneumonia
D) Heart attack
- 92. What was the name of the space probe that performed a flyby of Mercury in 2008?
A) Curiosity
B) Cassini
C) Voyager 2
D) MESSENGER
- 93. What event triggered the formation of the online activist group Anonymous's Project Chanology?
A) A hurricane in Myanmar
B) A leaked Tom Cruise interview
C) A stock market crash
D) A political election in Iran
- 94. In 2008, which country unilaterally declared independence from Serbia?
A) Georgia
B) South Ossetia
C) Abkhazia
D) Kosovo
- 95. Which banking corporation was involved in the WikiLeaks allegations regarding illegal activities in the Cayman Islands?
A) Julius Baer
B) Swiss National Bank
C) Global Trust Bank
D) Goldman Sachs
- 96. In what year did Nepal end its monarchy to become a republic?
A) 2009
B) 2007
C) 2010
D) 2008
- 97. Who was elected as the first African-American president of the United States in 2008?
A) Barack Obama
B) Joe Biden
C) Colin Powell
D) George W. Bush
- 98. Which terrorist group was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
A) Al-Qaeda
B) Taliban
C) Hezbollah
D) Lashkar-e-Taiba
- 99. What was the name of the gunman captured alive during the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
A) Osama bin Laden
B) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
C) Lashkar e-Taiba
D) Ajmal Amir Kasab
- 100. What nickname was given to the US Airways Flight 1549 emergency landing?
A) Miracle on the Hudson
B) Hudson River Rescue
C) The 2009 Ditching
D) The Flight 1549 Success
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