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Signed into law in 2010, this bill helped transform the health care industry, allowing an additional 20 million Americans to obtain health insurance
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This comic series has released 21 movies since 2010
What is Marvel?
This MLB team won their first World Series in 2016
Who are the Chicago Cubs?
Moonlight won in 2017 after this movie was first incorrectly announced as Best Picture winner
What is La La Land?
As 2010 began, this mayor was in his 21st term in office - his tenure ended in 2011 when he declined to run for a seventh term
Who was Richard M. Daley?
Negotiated in 2015, this landmark deal has ambitious goals for cutting carbon emissions and controlling global average temperature for countries around the world - the U.S. is set to pull out of the deal in 2020
What is the Paris Agreement?
This hit series premiered on Sunday, April 17, 2011 inspiring a massive cult following and increasing tourism in Dubrovnik
What is Game of Thrones?
Grand jury testimony made public in 2011 about a sexual abuse scandal eventually led to the dismissal of this beloved college football coach
Who is Joe Paterno?
This 2013 Best Picture was a movie about a rescue mission that involved making a movie.
What is Argo?
Taxis gained some competition when this company launched in Chicago in 2011
What is Uber?
In May 2011, a group of 25 Navy Seals raided a compound in Pakistan and killed this al-Qaeda leader
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
Simon Cowell discovered these five lads on the show X-Factor, and asked them to form this teen dream boy band
What is One Direction?
On August 26, 2017, Floyd Mayweather put his title on the line against this first-time boxer.
Who is Connor McGregor?
This Director's 2010 film "The Hurt Locker" won both Best Picture and Best Director over Avatar, directed by her ex-husband James Cameron.
Who is Kathryn Bigelow?
She was an anti-lynching activist and journalist with a Chicago street re-named after her in 2018
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Anger over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in 2014 gave rise to this movement
What is Black Lives Matter?
This celebrity built a multi-million dollar business that started with lip kits in 2015 and ended with the sale of a majority stake in her company to Coty Cosmetics for half a billion dollars in 2019
Who is Kylie Jenner?
In 2018, this University became the first 16 seed ever to advance past the first round in March Madness, defeating Virginia.
What is University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC)?
To help develop his character's stammer in 2011's Best Picture, this lead actor turned to his sister, another actress turned speech therapist, for coaching.
Who is Colin Firth?
This Chicago "El" station was closed and demolished in 1949, but re-opened in 2012 to service the newly developing West Loop and Fulton Market neighborhood
What is the Morgan station?
Since 2017, this ex-movie producer has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women and has sparked the #Metoo movement
Who is Harvey Weinstein?
Among the top 5 most streamed tracks of the decade, this singer/songwriter appears twice
Who is Ed Sheeran?
Playing in their first ever Euro soccer tournament in 2016, this country of less than 350,000 advanced from the group stage and, in a stunning turn, took down England 2-1 in the knockout round.
What is Iceland?
On location, shooting this 2014 Best Picture in Louisiana took only thirty-five days with one camera
What is 12 Years a Slave?
In 2012, this Chicago author released a thriller novel about a husband's suspected involvement in the disappearance of his wife that was a NY times best seller for 8 weeks and was made into a movie in 2014
Who was Gillian Flynn?