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2002 Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes the assets of whom?
A: Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban.

The eruption of what volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo displaces an estimated 400,000 people?
A: Mount Nyiragongo.

What Wall Street Journal reporter is kidnapped in Pakistan?
A: Daniel Pearl.

Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than how many people?
A: 1,000.

What happened to kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl?
A:  He is murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.

The 2002 Winter Olympics are held where?
A: In Salt Lake City, Utah.

What happened to Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon,?
A: She dies in her sleep aged 71 after suffering a major stroke.

 

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe begins to do what?
A: To map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

A fire on a train running from Cairo to Luxor kills how many people?
A: At least 383 and injures over 65.

The most prolific serial killer in Canadian history, Robert William Pickton, is what?
A: Arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

A Spanish-facilitated ceasefire begins in Sri Lanka.

The ex-currencies of all euro-using nations cease to be what?
A: Legal tender in the European Union.

What satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 km above the Earth using an Ariane 5 on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8,500 kg?
A: Envisat environmental satellite.

Space Shuttle Columbia flies what mission?
A: The Hubble Space Telescope service mission.

Operation Anaconda ends after killing how many Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters?
A: 500, with 11 allied troop fatalities.

 

In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and 3 others are charged with what?
A: The kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

What happens to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother?
A: She dies aged 101 at Royal Lodge, Windsor.

A military coup d'?at against leftist leader fails?
A: Venezuelan President Hugo Ch?ez.

Four Canadian infantrymen are killed in Afghanistan by what?
A: Friendly fire from 2 US F-16s.

The discovery of a new what is announced?
A: insect order, Mantophasmatodea.

Pope John Paul II holds an extraordinary meeting of American cardinals at the Vatican to discuss what?
A: The sexual abuse of children.

Who get assassinated in the Netherlands?
A: Politician and Prime Ministerial candidate Pim Fortuyn.

 

FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to what?
A: Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

East Timor regains its independence after 26 years of what?
A: Occupation by Indonesia.

The US State Department releases a report naming what 7 state sponsors of terrorism?
A: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.

In Moscow, President Bush and President Putin sign what?
A: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty to replace the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and the START II Treaty of 1993.

What happens to China Airlines Flight 611?
A: It disintegrates near the Penghu Islands at Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 people on board.

What does the Mars Odyssey find on the planet Mars?
A: signs of large water ice deposits.

Who recognizes Antonio Meucci as the first inventor of the telephone?
A: The United States Congress.

 

The United States Senate withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, and in response what does the Russian State Duma do?
A: It withdraws from START II Treaty of 1993.

Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by how many miles, about 1/3 the distance to the moon?
A: 75,000 miles (121,000 km).

Brazil wins their 5th FIFA World Cup by defeating who 2-0 in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final?
A: Germany.

The Organization of African Unity is disbanded and replaced by what?
A: The African Union.

Who joins the United Nations as the 191st member state?
A: Switzerland.

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is admitted to what?
A: The United Nations as the 192nd member state.

Where do the Beltway sniper attacks begin with 5 shootings?
A: In Montgomery County, Maryland.

What does Iran ban?
A: The advertising of United States products.

What does Argentina default on?
A: A US $805 million World Bank loan payment.

In Nigeria, more than 100 are killed at an attack aimed at whom?
A: The Miss World contestants.

 
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