2006 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Russia cuts the shipment of what to Ukraine over a price
dispute?
A: Natural gas.
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a what?
A: A severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, collapses, killing how many
pilgrims visiting to perform Hajj?
A: 76 pilgrims.
NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to
return what?
A: Dust from a comet.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumes office as President of
Liberia, becoming what?
A: The first female elected head of state in Africa.
NASA launches the first space mission to what planet as a
rocket hurls the New Horizons spacecraft on a 9-year journey?
A: Pluto.
Where are the 2006 Winter Olympics held?
A: In Turin, Italy.
Where do sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped
underground, following an explosion?
A: In Nueva Rosita, Mexico.
NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a
liquid substance shooting from where?
A: Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter does what?
A: It enters orbit around Mars.
What type of jet engine, designed to fly at 7 times the
speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia?
A: A scramjet jet engine.
What happens to the European Space Agency's
Venus Express
space probe?
A: It enters Venus' orbit.
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in
Indonesia, killing more than how many people?
A: 6,000.
How is the world's biggest mud
volcano created?
A: By the blowout of a natural gas well being drilled in the subdistrict of
Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia.
The 2006 FIFA World Cup begins in what country?
A: Germany.
What former Beatle turns 64 after writing "When I'm
Sixty-Four" at age 16?
A: Paul McCartney.
The United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in what
country?
A: Iceland, thereby disbanding the Iceland Defense Force.
The Nathu La pass between what two countries re-opens for
trade after 44 years.?
A: India and China.
What does Italy win?
A: Its fourth FIFA World Cup title.
What social media site is launched?
A: Twitter.
A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously
accepted by what?
A: The United Nations Security Council.
What happened to Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612?
A: It crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including
45 children.
North Korea claims to have conducted its what?
A: First-ever nuclear test.
Who is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United
Nations?
A: South Korean Ban Ki-moon.
The population of the USA exceeds how many
people?
A: 300 million.
What happened to ADC Airlines Flight 53?
A: It crashes shortly after takeoff in Nigeria, killing 96 people.
Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to
what?
A: Death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
What does Al Jazeera launch?
A: Its English-language news channel, Al Jazeera English.
What explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos,
killing at least 200 people?
A: An oil pipeline.