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Which Paris cathedral burned on 15 April 2019?
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Notre-Dame
The restored cathedral reopened in 2024.
💡 Did you know? Almost a billion euros in donations were pledged within days.
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The Event Horizon Telescope presented the first-ever photo of what in April 2019?
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black hole
Eight telescopes worldwide were linked together for the shot.
💡 Did you know? The orange ring was affectionately dubbed "the donut".
With which furious phrase did Greta Thunberg attack world leaders at the 2019 UN climate summit?
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How dare you
That same month, millions worldwide joined climate strikes.
💡 Did you know? Greta had sailed to New York emissions-free.
Who became British prime minister in July 2019, promising to complete Brexit?
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Boris Johnson
"Get Brexit done" was his constant slogan.
💡 Did you know? The exit followed on 31 January 2020.
Which secretly filmed footage toppled Austria's vice-chancellor Strache and the government in 2019?
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Ibiza video
Kurz's coalition collapsed and snap elections followed.
💡 Did you know? Strache's excuse of a "boozy story" became a catchphrase.
Who became the first woman to lead the EU Commission in 2019?
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Ursula von der Leyen
She won the European Parliament vote by a whisker.
💡 Did you know? She was the first German at the helm since Walter Hallstein.
Which company's IPO collapsed spectacularly in 2019, taking its "visionary" founder Adam Neumann down with it?
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WeWork
The IPO was shelved; the main investor SoftBank had to bail it out.
💡 Did you know? WeWork eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2023.
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Which comedian and sitcom star was elected president of Ukraine in 2019?
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Volodymyr Zelensky
In the series "Servant of the People" he had merely played the president.
💡 Did you know? From 2022 he became world-famous as a wartime president.
In which metropolis did millions protest against a China extradition bill in 2019?
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Hong Kong
A harsh security law largely ended the movement in 2020.
💡 Did you know? At times, one in four residents was on the streets.
Which Marvel film dethroned "Avatar" as the highest-grossing movie ever in 2019?
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Avengers: Endgame
Avatar reclaimed the throne in 2021 via a Chinese re-release.
💡 Did you know? The film capped a saga of 22 Marvel movies.
Which club won the 2019 Champions League under Jürgen Klopp?
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Liverpool
In the semis, Liverpool had overturned a 3 to 0 against Barcelona.
💡 Did you know? In 2020 came Liverpool's first league title in 30 years.
Who won the 2019 Women's World Cup in France?
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USA
Rapinoe won both the Golden Boot and Golden Ball.
💡 Did you know? The team was suing for equal pay at the same time and later won.
Which Boeing aircraft type was grounded worldwide in 2019 after two crashes?
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737 MAX
The cause was the faulty MCAS control software.
💡 Did you know? The grounding lasted almost two years.
Fires in which rainforest sparked worldwide outrage in summer 2019?
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Amazon
President Bolsonaro came under international pressure.
💡 Did you know? "#PrayForAmazonas" trended worldwide.
Which US president did the House of Representatives impeach in December 2019?
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Donald Trump
The inquiry had begun in September; the Senate acquitted him in early 2020.
💡 Did you know? A second impeachment followed in 2021: a first in history.
Which anniversary did Germany celebrate on 9 November 2019?
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30 years since the fall of the Wall
President Steinmeier thanked the civil rights activists of 1989.
💡 Did you know? By then, the Wall had been down longer than it ever stood.
Which short-video app conquered teenagers' phones in 2019 and became one of the world's most-downloaded apps?
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TikTok
It grew out of the app Musical.ly, acquired by China's ByteDance.
💡 Did you know? In 2021 TikTok passed one billion monthly users.
Which country's parliament was the first in the world to declare a "climate emergency" in May 2019?
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United Kingdom
"Climate emergency" became Oxford's word of the year.
💡 Did you know? Germany's government passed its own climate package that September.
In which Chinese city were the first cases of a mysterious lung disease reported in late December 2019?
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Wuhan
On 31 December, Wuhan's health commission made the cases public.
💡 Did you know? Weeks later, Wuhan was under complete lockdown.
With which song did Dutchman Duncan Laurence win the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest?
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Arcade
Years later the song became a global hit all over again via TikTok.
💡 Did you know? It was the first Dutch Eurovision win since 1975.
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