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hat do you remember of the events that shaped 2015? Here’s your opportunity to find out with the DSM’s 2015 Quiz. Good luck! Answers can be found on The DSM website: www.thedeuxsevresmonthly.fr
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ntry won both On 8-11 January, which cou 5 World Team the men’s and women’s 201 Cup in Table Tennis?
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beat Qatar On 1 February, which country Handball n’s to win the 2015 World Me Championship?
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Alpine Skiing Which country won the 2015 IPC k place on too World Championships which 1-10 March? ing Chinese Who won the Formula One rac Grand Prix on 12 April? n the 2015 On 2 May, which team wo Final? Cup European Rugby Champions the 2015 FIFA In June, which country hosted Women’s World Cup? Which golfer won the 2015 U.S.
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won the 2015 In road bicycle racing, who Tour de France?
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won the 2015 In September, which country All-Africa Games?
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On New Year’s Day, which country joined the Euro zone? On 7 January, masked gunmen stormed the offices of which Fre nch satirical weekly magazine, killing 12 peop le? On 7 April, which country wa an earthquake measuring s devastated by 7.9 on the Richter scale?
Which European country legalised same-sex 4 ma rriage in an historic vo
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On 26 June, in which co untry did a gunman kill 38 tourists at a beach resort? On 5 July, 61% of voters from which country voted “No” in a refere ndum on proposed budget cuts by creditors in return for loans which the country need ed? In July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first ever mis sio close flyby of which distan n to perform a t planet? On 14 August, in which country did the U.S. Embassy reopen after 54 years of being closed? On 17 September, in wh ich American state did multiple massive wil d fires destroy over 280,000 acres?
On 24 September, a stamp 10 Mu ede killed over 700 slim pilgrims travelling to which
holy city? Following a warming of relations, on 4 November, the leaders of which two Cold War rival countries met for the first time in 66 years?
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eball World Which team won the 2015 Bas tested in con y Series? World Series! It’s onl the U.S.!!
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years without In November, following 79 at Britain beat victory, which country did Gre to win the tennis Davis Cup?
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whose inhabitants, due to rising seas levels, where forced in Decemb er to abandon their homeland becoming the first official climate change refugees?