ANSWERS

1. c: Iron Man 3

2. Edward Snowden

3. A meteor (the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century)

4. Saudi Arabia

5. Pope Benedict XVI

6. The Philippines and Vietnam

7. Peter O'Toole

8. Peter Higgs (for his prediction of the existence of a new particle, the Higgs Boson)

9. President Mohamed Morsi

10. Croatia

11. George Alexander Louis 

12. 2019. (2014 started on a Wednesday, 2015 a Thursday, 2016 a Friday, 2017 a Sunday, 2018 a Monday, 2019 a Tuesday as 2016 is a Leap year thus has one more day)

13. d: Maria Sugapova

14. Barry Manilow

15. Tax fraud

16. Boeing 787 Dreamliner (thanks to a series of fires)

17. Barack Obama

18. Fred Perry in 1936

19. A park (Taksim Gezi Park to be exact)

20. The Superbowl (Superbowl XLVII)