Q 01/05

Which country adopted the euro on January 1, 2015, becoming the 19th eurozone member?

A) Latvia

B) Lithuania

C) Croatia

D) Slovakia

Answer · why

B) Lithuania

Lithuania had first asked to join in 2006 and was turned down because its inflation ran at 2.7% against a limit of 2.6%; nine years on it gave up the ...

Q 02/05

Gunmen killed 12 people at the offices of which French satirical newspaper in January 2015?

A) Charlie Hebdo

B) Libération

C) Le Monde

D) Le Canard enchaîné

Answer · why

A) Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo's surviving staff published the next issue a week later; instead of the usual 60,000 copies the print run climbed into the millions, and...

Q 03/05

Which party, led by Alexis Tsipras, won Greece's January 2015 election?

A) Golden Dawn

B) New Democracy

C) PASOK

D) SYRIZA

Answer · why

D) SYRIZA

SYRIZA won 149 of 300 seats, two short of a majority, so the left-wing party took office with the right-leaning Independent Greeks, a partner it share...

Q 04/05

Which country won the 2015 Cricket World Cup, a tournament it co-hosted?

A) Australia

B) India

C) England

D) South Africa

Answer · why

A) Australia

Australia won its fifth title, and captain Michael Clarke, playing his last one-day international, dedicated it to teammate Phillip Hughes, who had di...

Q 05/05

NASA's Dawn probe entered orbit around which dwarf planet in March 2015?

A) Makemake

B) Ceres

C) Eris

D) Haumea

Answer · why

B) Ceres

Ceres made Dawn the first spacecraft to orbit two worlds beyond Earth, after the asteroid Vesta; the puzzling bright spots it found in Occator crater ...