Quiz Flashcards
1
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- The national Air Force and Navy are deployed in which country’s southeast to tackle unprecedented bushfires?
A
Australia
2
Q
- Which 18-year-old singer clean swept the main awards at the 2020 Grammy’s ceremony in January?
A
Billie Eilish
3
Q
- An American airstrike at Baghdad International Airport killed a leading general from which other Middle Eastern nation?
A
Iran
4
Q
- Which celebrity couple agreed to drop their official titles as they stepped back from ‘family’ duties?
A
Meghan & Prince Harry
5
Q
- SARS-CoV-2 – the virus causing the disease known as Covid-19 (declared a pandemic by the WHO in March) – was first identified in which Chinese city during January 2020?
A
Wuhan
6
Q
- The Diamond Princess, quarantined off the shore of Japan during the early stages of the pandemic, was what specific type of sailing vessel?
A
Cruise Liner
7
Q
- Following a 2016 vote, which nation seceded from the European Union on January 31st, beginning an 11-month transition period?
A
United Kingdom
8
Q
- Bong Joon-ho made history as he won Best Director and Best Picture for which film, the first non-English language feature to take the award?
A
Parasite
9
Q
- Which inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame, known for his legendary hit The Gambler alongside many others, passed away in March, aged 81?
A
Kenny Rogers
10
Q
- As part of a ‘price war’, which commodity fell in March to its lowest price since November 2002?
A
Oil
11
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- Which major social media website removed ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘pseudoscience’ as interest categories for targeted advertisements?
A
12
Q
- Which major western leader contracted coronavirus and was moved to hospital in April after his condition worsened?
A
Boris Johnson
13
Q
- An annular type of which event was observed in the sky above much of the world on June 21st?
A
Eclipse
14
Q
- The accounts of prominent celebrities and politicians were compromised on which social media site by hackers trying to promote a Bitcoin scam?
A
15
Q
- An explosion of stored ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of which Middle Eastern capital city, causing the deaths of 220 people and widespread devastation?
A
Beirut
16
Q
- Which virus became the second, after smallpox, to be eradicated across the continent of Africa?
A
Polio
17
Q
- In August, which retail magnate was announced by Forbes magazine to have become the first person to have exceeded a net worth of $200 billion?
A
Jeff Bezos
18
Q
- On August 16th, which place in California recorded a temperature of 54.4 degrees centigrade, believed to be the hottest surface temperature ever observed on Earth?
A
Death Valley
19
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- Over 200 skeletons of which extinct ice age mammal were unearthed under Mexico City’s Santa Lucia Airport, the largest find of their kind?
A
Mammoths
20
Q
- Which former James Bond actor passed away on 31st October 2020, at the age of 91?
A
Sir Sean Connery
21
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- The height of which mountain was agreed officially by Nepal and China to be 8,848.86m above sea level?
A
Mt. Everest
22
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- What major international organization agreed in mid-December to reduce its carbon emissions by 55% over the next decade?
A
The European Union
