World Events
This disaster struck Japan in 2011 and involved a nuclear meltdown.
What is the Fukushima disaster?
This company led the push for electric cars in the 2010s.
What is Tesla?
This 1992 book organized Church doctrine into a single text.
What is the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
This boxing film followed the underdog story of Rocky Balboa.
What is Rocky?
This law, passed in 2010, expanded health insurance coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?
The year Grandmom and Grandpop were married?
What is 1961?
This war began in 2022, involving Russia and a neighboring country.
What is the Russia-Ukraine war?
This search engine became the world's go-to info source.
What is Google?
This archbishop was martyred in El Salvador for defending the poor.
Who is Oscar Romero?
This Christmas film ends with the line 'God bless us, every one.'
What is A Christmas Carol?
This president was the first African American elected to office.
Who is Barack Obama?
D-Day invasion occurred in Normandy.
What is 1944?
This terrorist event occurred on U.S. soil in 2001.
What is the September 11 attack?
This 2010s app popularized photo sharing and filters.
What is Instagram?
This Marian apparition occurred in Portugal and included visions of hell and prayer for peace.
What is Our Lady of Fatima?
This sci-fi series introduced the Force and Darth Vader.
What is Star Wars?
This first lady led a campaign called 'Just Say No.'
Who is Nancy Reagan?
The Sound of Music premiered.
What is 1965?
This program helped rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This e-reader changed how people read books.
What is the Kindle?
This event celebrated by Pope John Paul II in 2000 was a call for global reconciliation.
What is the Jubilee Year?
This Pixar movie started with a boy named Andy and a toy cowboy.
What is Toy Story?
This businessman and TV personality became president in 2016.
Who is Donald Trump?
The United States Bicentennial was celebrated.
What is 1976?
This 1947 event marked the founding of a key Middle Eastern nation.
What is the founding of Israel?
This GPS-based app replaced paper maps.
What is Google Maps?
This Catholic organization provides disaster relief and humanitarian aid worldwide.
What is Caritas Internationalis?
This WWII-era romance film featured the line 'Here's looking at you, kid.'
What is Casablanca?
This 2020 pandemic term referred to essential jobs.
What are frontline workers?
Mother Teresa was canonized.
What is 2016?
This Cold War conflict began in 1950 with U.S. intervention.
What is the Korean War?
This wearable device tracks health metrics.
What is a Fitbit or Apple Watch?
This Catholic youth event is held every few years and gathers millions around the pope.
What is World Youth Day?
This Christian drama about prayer and marriage was released in 2015.
What is War Room?
This woman became the first female Vice President in 2021.
Who is Kamala Harris?
The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.
What is 2021?
This 1960s event symbolized countercultural music and peace.
What is Woodstock?
This AI-powered assistant can respond to your questions or schedule.
What is Siri or Alexa?
This 1980s movement encouraged praying the Rosary for the conversion of Russia.
What is the Blue Army?
This prison drama starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman is consistently top-ranked.
What is The Shawshank Redemption?
This 2022 ruling overturned Roe v. Wade.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson?
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
What is 1968?
This 2003 conflict began with a U.S.-led invasion in the Middle East.
What is the Iraq War?
This kind of car doesn't need a human to drive it.
What is a self-driving car?
This saint is the patron of lost causes.
Who is St. Jude?
This Marvel character wields a shield and represents American ideals.
Who is Captain America?
This 1994 Republican political plan promised fiscal discipline.
What is the Contract with America?
Pearl Harbor was attacked.
What is 1941?
This 2021 event marked the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban resurgence.
What is the fall of Kabul?
This platform made virtual learning and meetings possible during COVID.
What is Zoom?
This devotional practice focuses on the suffering of Jesus before the crucifixion.
What are the Stations of the Cross?
This trilogy followed Frodo’s journey to destroy the One Ring.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This app has shaped culture and concern about youth and privacy in the 2020s.
What is TikTok?
Titanic won Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is 1998?
This historic speech was given by Winston Churchill in 1946 warning of an 'iron curtain'.
What is the Iron Curtain speech?
This feature lets you pay with your phone instead of cash or cards.
What is Apple Pay or Google Pay?
This Catholic rite welcomes infants into the Church.
What is Baptism?
This sports film depicted the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's win over the Soviets.
What is Miracle?
This mid-century law ended legal segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
First artificial satellite, Sputnik, launched.
What is 1957?