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1. The atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II resulted in the genocide of six million Jewish Europeans, approximately two thirds of the Jewish population. One would think the world would learn from this, but a region in Africa called Darfur has seen upheaval among its citizens that have resulted in half a million people killed under the rule of the President Omar al-Bashir. In what country is Darfur located?
2. 2020's Tropical Storm Cristobal never reached the status of hurricane, but it left a swath of rain starting in the Gulf of Mexico and uncharacteristically didn't stop until it reached the Canadian border. The level of tropical depression hitting Canadian territory, originating in the Gulf of Mexico, had not happened in 120 years. But that storm was vastly more memorable than Cristobal. Forming before storms were named, with what city is the 1900 hurricane associated?
3. The tragic and unnecessary death of George Floyd in Minnesota caused protests, which escalated into rioting and looting across many locations in the United States. All of this even before the trials of the policemen involved have happened. The riots were an eerie reminder of riots that occurred in California in 1992, but those exploded, not over the acts of police, but over the acquittal of the four police officers involved in the brutal beating of an unarmed man that occurred in 1991. What was the name of the man thrust into the limelight he never wanted?
4. The housing bubble of 2008 took a big hammer to the American economy. With an influx of home sales hinging on ballooning mortgages that were given to people on wire thin budgets to begin with, the housing market collapsed, and with it, the economy. But it was not the first economic bubble to burst; it wasn't even the first that decade. The first occurred in 2000. What name was given to that bursting bubble?
5. Early in World War II, Adolf Hitler followed through on his desire to overtake Russia in June, to "allow the German race to expand and flourish" in his eyes. Not preparing for what a Russian winter would do to his army, the operation, code name "Barbarossa", retreated in December of 1941 after six months. This invasion in so many ways eerily mirrored a point in history when another leader attempted to invade Russia in June and left in defeat six months later. Who was the leader behind this attempt that was doomed to be repeated by the Third Reich?
6. John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in what was the most infamous assassination in American history since April 15, 1865 when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. History repeated itself in several ways beyond the fact that both were American presidents. Which of these is one of the facts that repeated between the two events?
7. The worst pandemic plague in recorded history, nicknamed the Black Death, resulted in at minimum 75 million deaths in the 1300s, or approximately 30 to 50% of the Eurasian population. There is another plague that officially began in 1981, that had it begin earlier in our world's history, could have been considerably worse. But with medical advances vastly improved over every previous generation, the death toll for this is a fraction of what it could have been. Originally called GRID, what is the name of this "plague" with a near 100% mortality rate in the 1980s?
8. In 1912, the Titanic ended up with the worst success rate in maritime history when it collided with an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. With so many safety procedures not followed after the impact, 68% of all aboard perished. Disasters like this should not repeat themselves, but a tragedy of even larger scale happened in 1987 when a passenger ferry collided with an oil tanker, and approximately three times as many people were killed as lost their lives as on the Titanic. What was the name of this Filipino ferry that was the last ride for over 4,500 people?
9. Sandy Hook Elementary School brings many vivid memories of where they were when they heard of the unimaginable horrors that occurred there December 14, 2012. But history has faded on equally horrific acts that happened in 1927. Choosing explosives over a gun, an elementary school was targeted and 44 people were killed, 38 of them children. Where was this event?
10. The Permian-Triassic Era of Earth's history, 250 million years ago, is associated with an event that according to prehistoric scientists have only happened five times in our Earth's history. And some scientists say our treatment of the planet is leading to the sixth time of this occurring. In fact, we might be in the early throes of it as we speak. What is possibly happening to our Earth in our current days?
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