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Historical Events and Figures of 2001

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 2001, covering various fields such as politics, entertainment, and cultural events.

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1 Dipendra dies ________, as King of Nepal.

2 ________ – Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.

3 February 25 – Sir ________, Australian cricketer (b.

4 September 11 – ________, Egyptian-born airline hijacker (b.

5 June 28 – ________, English actress (b.

6 June 30 – ________, American guitarist and record producer (b.

7 June 1 – A ________ suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv, Israel.

8 The year 2001 was the 1st year of the 3rd millennium and of the ________ as there was no year zero in the Gregorian calendar.

9 ________ – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b.

10 ________ – Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver (b.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in June 2001, Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
  • in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television.
  • the 2001 single by Mylène Farmer, C'est une belle journée, was released in April, 2002 after the success of the album, Les Mots, rather than its scheduled date of release.
  • the 2001 UBK protest campaign in Kiev's Independence Square anticipated the current Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
  • the White House Tee Ball Initiative was created by President George W. Bush to promote baseball and softball by allowing youth Tee Ball events on the grounds of the White House in 2001.
  • ethnic Dayaks in Borneo resorted to the ancient practice of headhunting to chase away migrant Madurese during the Sampit conflict in 2001.
  • a fall of red rain in Kerala in 2001 might have contained microbes of extraterrestrial origin.
  • Buddhism in Austria is a legally recognized religion and has 10,402 followers according to the 2001 census.
  • Go.com partnered with Goto.com in 2001, even though a judge had ordered Go.com to pay Goto.com $21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo.
  • Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I.
  • Vanessa Mendoza, Miss Colombia 2001, was the first Black woman to win that title.
  • Jacek Dukaj's Black Oceans, a Polish science-fiction novel, received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001.
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