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Significant Events and Birthdays of 2000

This quiz covers significant events, prominent figures, and notable happenings from the year 2000, testing participants' knowledge on various subjects.

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1 ________ – Noah Cyrus, American actress

2 ________ – Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (b.

3 ________ – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b.

4 What does the following picture show?  Steve Allen   Pierre Trudeau   Ian Dury   Keizō Obuchi

5 January 11 – The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the ________.

6 May 3 – John Cardinal O'Connor, ________ (b.

7 ________ – Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b.

8 May 27 – ________, Canadian hockey player (b.

9 ________ – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.

10 ________ – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
  • the Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000.
  • what was probably the last living Spix's Macaw died in 2000.
  • the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic was postponed by an electrical storm during which lightning struck ESPN broadcaster Lee Corso's rental car.
  • Tropical Storm Helene of 2000 struck Florida just five days after Hurricane Gordon.
  • Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000.
  • soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer.
  • basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach.
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