2009 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What countries assume their seats on the United Nations
Security Council?
A: Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and
Uganda.
What does Slovakia adopt as its national currency,
replacing the Slovak koruna?
A: The euro.
Israel launches a ground invasion of what?
A: The Gaza Strip.
Russia shuts off what?
A: All gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine.
Who publicly endorses the move and urges greater
international involvement in the
energy dispute?
A: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Israel completes its withdrawal from the what?
A: The Gaza Strip.
Who is appointed the new Prime Minister of Iceland,
becoming the world's first openly lesbian head of government?
A: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.
The Taliban releases a video of what?
A: Polish geologist Piotr Stańczak being beheaded.
A Russian and an American satellite collide over Siberia,
creating a what?
A: A large amount of space debris.
Who is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe?
A: Morgan Tsvangirai .
What former Serbian president is acquitted by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia?
A: Milan Milutinović.
Who is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence
in Bissau?
A: The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira.
What two countries are admitted to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO)?
A: Albania and Croatia.
Where does a 6.3 magnitude earthquake strike, killing
nearly 300 and injuring more than 1,500?
A: Near L'Aquila, Italy.
What former Peruvian President is sentenced to 25 years in
prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces?
A: Alberto Fujimori.
The cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama is captured by who?
A: Somali pirates.
The U.S. Navy rescues Captain Richard Phillips from Somali
pirates, killing how many pirates?
A: Three, and capturing a fourth.
The World Health Organization expresses concern at the
spread of what?
A: Influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries.
After a quarter-century of fighting, the Sri Lankan Civil
War ends with what?
A: The total military defeat of the LTTE.[41][42]
Who, under investigation for alleged bribery during his
presidential term, commits suicide?
A: Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun.
North Korea announces that it has conducted a second what?
A: Successful nuclear test.
What happened to Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio
de Janeiro to Paris?
A: It crashes into the Atlantic
Ocean, killing all 228 on board.
The General Assembly of the Organization of American States
votes to do what?
A: To lift the 1962 suspension of Cuba from the organization.
The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain, also called
"swine flu", is deemed a what?
A: A global pandemic.
What happened to American entertainer
Michael Jackson?
A: He died.
The Organization of American States suspends what country
due to the country's recent political crisis after its refusal to reinstate
President Zelaya?
A: Honduras.
The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century,
lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs where?
A: Over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
Bolivia becomes the first
South American country to declare
what?
A: The right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake triggers a
tsunami near what
islands?
A: The Samoan Islands.
How many people died when a 7.6-magnitude earthquake
strikes just off the coast of Sumatra?
A: Around 1,000 in Indonesia.
Paleontologists announce the discovery of an Ardipithecus
ramidus fossil skeleton, deeming it the what?
A: The oldest remains of a human ancestor yet found.
The International Olympic Committee awards the 2016
Summer
Olympics to what city?
A: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Czech Republic becomes the final member-state of the
European Union to sign what?
A: The Treaty of Lisbon, thereby permitting that document's initiation into
European law.
Who is installed as Bishop of Stockholm (Church of Sweden),
the world's first openly lesbian bishop?
A: Eva Brunne.
CERN restarts the "what" in Geneva, Switzerland?
A: Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator.
Where is the UNFCCC's United Nations Climate Change
Conference 2009 conference held?
A: In Copenhagen, Denmark.
Astronomers discover GJ1214b, the first-known exoplanet on
which what?
A: Water could exist.
