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World events trivia questions
Every one of the 18 questions in Rewind’s World events branch carries a year, running from 1912 to 2019. The branch sits in the History group of the picker, under the line “What happened everywhere else”.
Years covered by World events
18 of the 18 carry a year, the earliest 1912 and the latest 2019. By decade:
- 1910s: 1 question
- 1940s: 3 questions
- 1950s: 2 questions
- 1960s: 3 questions
- 1970s: 1 question
- 1980s: 1 question
- 1990s: 1 question
- 2000s: 2 questions
- 2010s: 4 questions
The shape of a World events question
Each card has four answers and one right one. 5 start with “Which”, 4 start with “The”, 3 start with “In”. A one-line fact follows every answer, and the longest of them is 21 words.
Every question was checked against a written source, and the source is kept with it.
Try these World events questions
Try these two. They come from the older part of the World events bank and were not in the daily ten around the build date of this page.
Question (1953): Who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1953?
Answer: Edmund Hillary. The news reached London just in time to be published on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
The wrong choices on the card were George Mallory, Reinhold Messner, and Ernest Shackleton.
Checked against 1953 British Mount Everest expedition (Wikipedia).
Question (1971): Which country became independent in 1971, having been East Pakistan?
Answer: Bangladesh. India entered the war in December 1971 in support of the independence movement.
The wrong choices on the card were Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar.
Checked against Bangladesh Liberation War (Wikipedia).
Play only World events
Rewind lets you narrow the day to what you like. Here that means opening Branches, ticking World events with the other History branches, and pressing Play these. A day needs ten questions in the selection, and this branch has 18 of its own.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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