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| President Obama made a historic trip to what country long isolated by the U.S. | Cuba |
| President Obama Appointment to the Supreme Court | Merrick Garland, his appointment was stalled by the Republican controlled Senate. |
| In Feb. 2016 there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court when what conservative Justice died suddenly? | Antonin Scalia |
| What company attempted to fight their compellance by law enforcement to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's phone | Apple |
| What two players were elected to the baseball hall of fame in Jan. 2016 | Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza |
| NCAA Football National Champions | Alabama, 2016; Clemson 2017 |
| 2016 Super Bowl | Denver defeats Carolina, Von Miller MVP |
| Mexico recaptured what escaped drug lord in Jan. 2016 | Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Actor Sean Penn's interview of him in Rolling Stone magazine played a part in the investigation |
| March 2016 bombers strike the airport in what major European city? | Brussels capital of Belgium and the European Union |
| What state adopted a controversial bathroom bill stating that people must use the restroom of their birth gender | North Carolina |
| Dilma Rousseff was impeached as president of what South American Country | Brazil |
| NCAA Basketball Championship | Men's Villanova; Women UConn |
| What UCONN Women's basektball coach won his 11th NCAA title | Gino Auriemma |
| What top NFL quarterback was suspended for four games during the 2016 season as a result of "deflategate" | Tom Brady, New England Patriots |
| Hardliner justifying vigilante action against criminals elected president of the Philippines | Rodrigo Duterte |
| This longshot underdog team won the championship of the English Premier League in Soccer | Leicester City |
| This car company reached a settlement over its emission test scandal | Volkswagon |
| Keiko Fujimori the daughter of an arrested president lost a close election in what South American country | Peru |
| This country voted to leave the European Union | United Kingdom (Brexit) Prime Minister David Cameron resigned and gave way to Theresa May (she was the first leader to meet with President Trump). |
| This hockey team won the Stanley Cup | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| This country had their track team banned from the Rio Olympics due to doping | Russia |
| Following a peaceful anti police brutality demonstration an African-American gunman killed five officers in what city | Dallas, TX |
| The Republican Convention met in what city, the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Cleveland |
| The Democratic Convention met in what city of Brotherly Love | Philadelphia |
| What team ended its long World Series Championship drought in baseball | Chicago Cuybs, they defeated the Cleveland Indians in seven games |
| What Cubs executive ended both the Cubs World Series drought and that of the Boston Red Sox | Theo Epstein |
| This Syrian city underwent a horrific seige by Syrian government troops | Aleppo |
| The Zika virus prompted warnings in what southern U.S. city | Miami |
| This bank admitted guilt in vastly defrauding its customers | Wells Fargo |
| Protests at the Standing Rock reservation interrupted what | The Dakota pipeline construction (North Dakota) |
| A homemade bomb exploded in the chelsea neighbor of what East Coast city | New York City |
| Pope Francis I canonized what nun know for her charitable work in India | Mother Teresa |
| What two media companies proposed a merger in Oct. 2016 | AT&T and Time Warner |
| The reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej ended when he died in October 2016 in what country | Thailand, he reigned for 70 years |
| In October 2016 Hurricane Matthew struck what Caribbean island, alreadyone of the poorest in the world. | Haiti |
| The WNBA Championship was won by? | Los Angeles Sparks |
| Michel Aoun was elected as president of what Middle Eastern country breaking a long deadlock | Lebanon |
| The UN admitted a role in what disease outbreak in Haiti | Cholera |
| What large tech company had to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes by the European Union | Apple |
| What for profit university abruptly closed its campuses in Sept. 2016 | ITT Technical Institute |
| The Bayer company of Germany offered to purchase what large agricultural and chemical company based in the U.S. | Monsanto (It also made Agent Orange during the Vietnam War) |
| President Obama recently commuted the sentence of what former Army private who leaked documents to Wikileaks | Chelsea Manning |
| In 2016 this NATO member saw an attempted coup by members of its military | Turkey |
| This would be assassin of Ronald Reagan was released in 2016 | John Hinckley Jr. |
| What country defied UN sanctions by conducting its fifth and largest nuclear test | North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) |
| In Oct. 2016 Iraq, with U.S. air support launched an offensive to dislodge ISIS from what northern city | Mosul |
| What does ISIS stand for | Islamic State of Iraq and Syria |
| This show has won 38 Emmy Awards over six seasons | Game of Thrones |
| Public sector employees in this country went on strike causing what many consider the largest work stoppage in history | India |
| President Obama became the first sitting American president to visit this Japanese city | Hiroshima |
