Q 01/05

On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in which Pakistani city?

A) Peshawar

B) Quetta

C) Abbottabad

D) Rawalpindi

Answer · why

C) Abbottabad

The mission was codenamed Operation Neptune Spear, a nod to the Navy SEAL trident insignia.

Q 02/05

How many Chilean miners were rescued in October 2010 after 69 days trapped at the San José mine?

A) 33

B) 38

C) 45

D) 52

Answer · why

A) 33

Each man rode to the surface alone in a 54-centimetre-wide steel capsule named Fénix, watched live by an estimated billion people.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the steel capsule that lifted the Chilean miners to the surface one at a time?

A) Fénix

B) Cóndor

C) Esperanza

D) Ángel

Answer · why

A) Fénix

Fénix means phoenix; the Fénix 2 capsule was just 54 centimetres across.

Q 04/05

What maximum rating did the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident receive on the International Nuclear Event Scale?

A) 4

B) 5

C) 6

D) 7

Answer · why

D) 7

Only Chernobyl in 1986 had previously been rated a Level 7 major accident.

Q 05/05

In the June 2016 referendum, what share of UK voters chose to leave the European Union?

A) 55.4%

B) 51.9%

C) 53.7%

D) 50.6%

Answer · why

B) 51.9%

Prime Minister David Cameron, who had called the vote, resigned the next month.