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What is YouTube?
This senator from Vermont has become a very popular photoshop meme in the US in the last week.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
This "part 2" final installment of a popular film series was the best selling movie worldwide in 2011.
What is "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"?
People born on Janary 9th have this zodiac sign.
What is Capricorn?
In 2016, this long suffering baseball team won their first World Series since 1908.
Who are the Chicago Cubs?
This product announcement from Microsoft was a game changer for the 2005 holidays, and celebrated its first birthday on Nov 22 2006
XBox 360
This pop star won five awards at the 2020 Grammys, including best new artist and song of the year.
Who is Billie Eilish?
This sport's World Cup was hosted in Mumbai in 2011.
What is cricket?
This revolutionary product was publically announced by Steve Jobs on this day in 2007.
What is the (first) iPhone?
The 2016 Summer Olympics were held in this southern hemisphere country.
What is Brazil?
What is Italy?
This former company CEO now owns the LA Clippers basketball team.
Steve Ballmer
This $8.5 billion dollar acquisition in 2011 by Microsoft set the stage for sunsetting MSN messenger in 2013/2014.
What is (was?) Skype?
This nearly-impeached US president was born on January 9th, 1913.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Microsoft paid ~$60 per user in this high profile 2016 acquisition. (Hint: You were likely one of those users)
What is LinkedIn?
This east coast team had a controversial win over the Seattle Seahawks on Feb 6th, 2006 in Superbowl XL.
Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Before Microsoft, Satya worked at this Bay area company, which was later acquired by Oracle.
What is Sun Microsystems?
Wikipedia lists this singer's second studio album, "21", as the worldwide top seller for 2011.
Who is Adele?
This famous advocate for nonviolent resistance returned to India, after 21 years in South Africa, on January 9th, 1915
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
In 2016, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence was the 50th governor of this state.
What is Indiana?
One of these movies won the 2006 Oscar for Best Picture:
Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
What was "Crash"?
Michael Wallent and Ken Pan now report to this Microsoft CVP (first and last name required).
Who is Harv(inder) Bhela?
Wikipedia lists the protests in this Northern African nation as the start of the "Arab Spring".
What is Tunisia?
According to Wikipedia, two of these nations had the first battle of a 3 year war on January 9th in 1921.
Was it: Cyprus, Crete, Greece, Lebanon or Turkey?
What is Greece and Turkey (the Greco-Turkish war)?
This feline internet celebrity had her own iOS/Android weather app released in 2016
Who is Grumpy Cat?