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What is Shrek?
This movie about a grumpy ogre and his excitable donkey on a journey to rescue a princess with a big secret was released in 2001
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What is Wikipedia?
This useful online website was launched in 2001
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What is Thriller?
This song by Michael Jackson won the MTV music award in 2001
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Who is Colin Kapernick?
This sports figure caused a stir by kneeling during the US national anthem in 2016
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What is "Game of Thrones"?
This was the most pirated show of 2016, surely not due to the comfort of its throne
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Who was Steve Irwin?
This TV celebrity was killed by a freak Stingray accident in 2006.
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What is the iPod?
Apple unveiled this device, which was designed under the codename "Dulcimer", in 2001
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Who is Taylor Swift?
This artist won the Grammy for Album of the Year for her album "1989" at the 2016 Grammy Awards
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Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers?
This football team was the Super Bowl champs in 2006
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What is 2006?
In this year, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet
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What is Lord of the Rings?
This movie series featuring the search for the "One Ring" began in 2001
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What is iTunes?
This platform experienced its billionth song download, "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay, in February 2006.
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Who is John Legend?
This individual, born as John Roger Stephens, won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, Best New Artist and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2006
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Who is Muhammad Ali?
Following his death in 2016, this popular sports figure's pallbearers were Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson and Will Smith
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What is the Zika virus?
On January 28th, 2016 this virus outbreak was announced by the WHO
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What is Grey's Anatomy?
This popular TV show about doctors debuted in 2001.
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What is Twitter?
This social media platform created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2006
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Who is Paul McCartney?
This former Beatle, who wrote the song "When I'm 64", turned 64 in 2006
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Who are the St. Louis Cardinals?
This team was the World Series champions in 2006
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What is a cat?
The animal named CC, short for Carbon Copy, was the first cloned ______ and was born on Dec 22, 2001
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Who is Chris Pine?
This actor plays the role of James T. Kirk in the 2016 film "Star Trek Beyond"
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What is Google?
This company bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006
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Who is Bob Dylan?
This musician, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, won the nobel prize for literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
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Who is Tiger Woods?
In 2001, this person became the first golfer to hold all 4 major championship golf titles at the same time
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Who is Pizza Hut?
This company made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001 by paying the Russians $1 million to transport the pizza.
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