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Campus Trivia Night

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Question: Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2000?

Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. Japan
  3. Germany
  4. United Kingdom
  5. France

In the half decade between 1995 and 2000, the list of the world’s four largest economies as measured by nominal GDP in $US remained unchanged in either composition or sequence. The identity of the world’s forth and fifth largest economies, switched such that the United Kingdom became ranked as number four and France ranked as number five as estimated by the International Monetary Fund.

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Marco Rubio was born
on this day in 1971

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Marco Rubio — the American politician and lawyer who has served as the United States Secretary of State since January 2025 — was born on this day — May 28, 1971 — in Miami, Florida.

He is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and the University of Miami School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor.

Prior to his appointment as the nation’s top diplomat, Rubio served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2011 to 2025, where he was the Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence. Earlier in his career, he served as the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and practiced law in Florida.

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