THE 2000’s
When someone talks about the 2000’s or ‘the noughties’, I think it was just a few years ago…yet here we are in 2023!
This is a blast from the past for any Millennials out there.
QUESTIONS
1. The 2000s may well be remembered for a string of prominent terror attacks around the world. In which Spanish city were 193 people killed in a string of simultaneous bombings on March 11th, 2004?
2. Who succeeded Bill Clinton as the 43rd US president on January 20, 2001 following a sharply contested election?
3. On what date in 2004 did one of the worst natural disasters hit the entire Indian Ocean region when a 9.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the island of Sumatra and generated devastating tsunamis across the area?
4. SARS outbreaks with a 9.7% fatality rate occurred in 37 countries in the early 2000’s, but what does SARS stand for?
5. The CERN Large Hadron Collider was finally completed in 2008 on the outskirts of which city?
6. Which Windows Operating System followed Windows XP and was released to the public in 2007?
7. The highest grossing film of the decade was written and directed by James Cameron and featured cutting edge motion capture technology. What was the film?
8. Which rap artist was the best-selling musician of the 2000’s and was also named as the ‘artist of the decade’ with over 32 million albums sold?
9. United Airlines Flight 93 was one of four aircraft involved in the 9/11 attacks on the USA. In which US state did the plane crash after it the passengers attempted to gain control of it from the hijackers?
10. The most complained about television event ever was televised in January 2005 and was an opera based on which talk show host that featured a troupe of tap dancing Ku Klux Klan members?
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ANSWERS
1. The 2000s may well be remembered for a string of prominent terror attacks around the world. In which Spanish city were 193 people killed in a string of simultaneous bombings on March 11th, 2004?
MADRID
2. Who succeeded Bill Clinton as the 43rd US president on January 20, 2001 following a sharply contested election?
GEORGE W. BUSH
3. On what date in 2004 did one of the worst natural disasters hit the entire Indian Ocean region when a 9.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the island of Sumatra and generated devastating tsunamis across the area?
DECEMBER 26 – Boxing day
4. SARS outbreaks with a 9.7% fatality rate occurred in 37 countries in the early 2000’s, but what does SARS stand for?
SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME
5. The CERN Large Hadron Collider was finally completed in 2008 on the outskirts of which city?
GENEVA
6. Which Windows Operating System followed Windows XP and was released to the public in 2007?
WINDOWS VISTA (Windows 7 wasn’t released until 2009)
7. The highest grossing film of the decade was written and directed by James Cameron and featured cutting edge motion capture technology. What was the film?
AVATAR (Released in 2009)
8. Which rap artist was the best-selling musician of the 2000’s and was also named as the ‘artist of the decade’ with over 32 million albums sold?
EMINEM
9. United Airlines Flight 93 was one of four aircraft involved in the 9/11 attacks on the USA. In which US state did the plane crash after it the passengers attempted to gain control of it from the hijackers?
PENNSYLVANIA (Near the town of Shanksville. It has been determined the attackers destination was the Capitol building in Washington D.C.)
10. The most complained about television event ever was televised in January 2005 and was an opera based on which talk show host that featured a troupe of tap dancing Ku Klux Klan members?
JERRY SPRINGER