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1. 2008: The United States elected the first president who wasn't a white male. Who was it?
2. 1994: Disney released a movie that followed Simba from birth through his ascension as leader of his species. What was it called?
3. 2008: Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps dominated the world and won a record number of gold medals. How many did he bring back to America?
4. Movies and TV have played a large part of my life, so the advent of the Blu-Ray disc was certainly a magical moment. Blu-Ray wasn't the only high definition video disk released around the same time though; what was the competing technology called?
5. In 1996 the world's first cloned sheep was born. What was the name of the sheep that said hello to the world on July 5 of that year?
6. "The Walking Dead" made zombies popular across the world with a top selling comic book and two television series. Which long-running zombie comic predated "The Walking Dead"?
7. Founded in 2005, what website is primarily used to both watch, and for users to upload their own videos?
8. In 2011, just the second "level 7" nuclear disaster in the history of the world took place.
9. In June 2016 voters in the United Kingdom chose to leave what politico-economic union in a vote unofficially called Brexit?
10. The Berlin Wall separated East and West Berlin from 1961-1989 and was officially torn down in 1992. Which side originally built the wall?
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