What did Britons narrowly vote for in the referendum of 23 June 2016?
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Brexit
PM David Cameron resigned the following morning.
💡 Did you know? The exit itself only happened on 31 January 2020.
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Who unexpectedly won the US presidential election in November 2016?
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Donald Trump
Clinton won the nationwide popular vote by almost three million.
💡 Did you know? Hardly any major pollster had predicted Trump's win.
In which country did a military coup against President Erdoğan fail in July 2016?
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Turkey
Mass arrests and a years-long state of emergency followed.
💡 Did you know? Erdoğan addressed the nation that night via FaceTime.
In which southern French city did a truck attacker drive into Bastille Day crowds in 2016?
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Nice
The crowds had been watching the 14 July fireworks.
💡 Did you know? France extended its state of emergency once again.
Which Berlin Christmas market was hit by a truck attack in December 2016?
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Breitscheidplatz
It was the deadliest Islamist attack on German soil.
💡 Did you know? The Memorial Church beside it has been a ruin-memorial since 1943.
Who won Euro 2016 through Éder's goal in the final against hosts France?
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Portugal
Ronaldo went off injured early and half-coached from the sideline.
💡 Did you know? Portugal won only one of their seven matches inside 90 minutes.
Which Euro debutant thrilled 2016 with the "Huh!" thunderclap and knocked out England?
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Iceland
Their run only ended against France in the quarter-final.
💡 Did you know? About eight percent of all Icelanders travelled to France.
Which 5,000-1 outsider sensationally won the 2016 English football title?
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Leicester City
Coach Claudio Ranieri's side had been relegation favourites.
💡 Did you know? Striker Jamie Vardy had played non-league football a few years earlier.
Which mobile game sent millions monster-hunting through the streets in summer 2016?
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Pokémon Go
Parks and squares filled with crowds of players.
💡 Did you know? The app broke five Guinness records within weeks.
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Which Google software beat world-class player Lee Sedol at Go in March 2016?
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AlphaGo
Go's complexity had made it the last human bastion in board games.
💡 Did you know? Move 37 in game two is famed as a machine's "most creative move".
Which Einstein-predicted phenomenon did LIGO researchers announce detecting in February 2016?
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gravitational waves
Einstein had predicted them 100 years earlier.
💡 Did you know? The discovery won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Which musician became the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
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Bob Dylan
Dylan stayed silent for weeks and skipped the ceremony.
💡 Did you know? He delivered his Nobel lecture just before the deadline.
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Which British pop chameleon ("Ziggy Stardust") died in January 2016?
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David Bowie
Even close collaborators hadn't known of his illness.
💡 Did you know? "Blackstar" is seen as a deliberately composed farewell.
Which "Purple Rain" musician died at his Paisley Park estate in April 2016?
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Prince
The cause was an accidental fentanyl overdose.
💡 Did you know? His vault held hundreds of unreleased songs.
Which boxing legend ("The Greatest") died in June 2016?
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Muhammad Ali
He had lived with Parkinson's for decades.
💡 Did you know? In 1996 he lit the Olympic flame with trembling hands.
What were the 2016 leaked documents about shell companies at a Panamanian law firm called?
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Panama Papers
Iceland's PM was the first prominent casualty, resigning within days.
💡 Did you know? Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung received the leak and shared it worldwide.
Which city hosted South America's first Olympic Games in 2016?
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Rio de Janeiro
Bolt completed his sprint triple-triple; Phelps took gold number 23.
💡 Did you know? A refugee team competed under the Olympic flag for the first time.
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Which Cuban revolutionary leader died in November 2016 at the age of 90?
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Fidel Castro
Cuba declared nine days of national mourning.
💡 Did you know? His ashes were taken to Santiago de Cuba: beside José Martí's tomb.
Which smartphone did Samsung recall worldwide in 2016 after batteries kept catching fire?
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Galaxy Note 7
Samsung ultimately killed the model entirely.
💡 Did you know? The recall cost Samsung an estimated five billion dollars.
With which guerrilla group did Colombia make peace in 2016 after 52 years of war?
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FARC
A first referendum had narrowly rejected the deal.
💡 Did you know? The conflict had claimed over 200,000 lives.
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