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Trivia Questions

The Whitewater controversy, a US political scandal of the 1990s, centered on real estate investments made by Bill and Hillary Clinton in which state?

The UN Oil-for-Food Programme scandal, uncovered in the early 2000s, involved widespread corruption related to a program designed to allow which country to sell oil despite sanctions?

The Pentagon Papers, a highly classified study leaked in 1971, revealed the true extent of US political and military involvement in which country's conflict?

The 'Keating Five' scandal in the US during the 1980s involved five senators accused of improperly intervening on behalf of which type of institution?

The 'Fillon affair,' a scandal that impacted the 2017 French presidential election, involved accusations that presidential candidate François Fillon had paid his family members for what?

The 1MDB scandal, a massive global corruption case that came to light in the 2010s, involved the embezzlement of billions of dollars from a state investment fund in which Asian country?

The Credit Mobilier scandal, a major financial scandal during the Reconstruction Era in the United States, involved corruption related to the construction of which major infrastructure project?

The Dreyfus Affair, a major political scandal and miscarriage of justice in late 19th-century France, centered on the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus for what crime?

Operation Car Wash (Operação Lava Jato), a vast anti-corruption investigation launched in Brazil in 2014, initially targeted money laundering involving a gas station but quickly expanded to implicate which state-owned oil company?

Following the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, a commission was established to recover ill-gotten wealth. This effort uncovered a vast collection of assets, famously including approximately how many pairs of shoes belonging to Imelda Marcos?