Q 01/05

A meteor exploded over which Russian city on February 15, 2013, injuring about 1,500 people?

A) Novosibirsk

B) Omsk

C) Yekaterinburg

D) Chelyabinsk

Answer · why

D) Chelyabinsk

It was the most powerful meteor to hit Earth's atmosphere since Tunguska in 1908, and most injuries came from shattered window glass.

Q 02/05

Which pope resigned on February 28, 2013?

A) John Paul II

B) Paul VI

C) Francis

D) Benedict XVI

Answer · why

D) Benedict XVI

He was the first pope to step down since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.

Q 03/05

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina took which papal name in March 2013?

A) Francis

B) Leo XIV

C) John XXIV

D) Pius XIII

Answer · why

A) Francis

He became the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.

Q 04/05

Park Geun-hye became the first female president of which country in February 2013?

A) Taiwan

B) Philippines

C) South Korea

D) Indonesia

Answer · why

C) South Korea

Her father, Park Chung-hee, had ruled the country from 1961 to 1979. She was impeached and removed in 2017.

Q 05/05

Which former British prime minister died on April 8, 2013?

A) Edward Heath

B) James Callaghan

C) Margaret Thatcher

D) Harold Wilson

Answer · why

C) Margaret Thatcher

Her ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral was attended by the Queen, the first time she had attended a prime minister's funeral since Churchill's ...