2. In 2012, Kate Bishop experienced which watershed event?
From Quiz Hawkeye
Answer:
The Chitauri Invasion
In the year 2012, a young Kate Bishop listens to her parents argue in the other room. Her father comes upstairs to speak to her about the situation; they're expecting to move out of their penthouse, but Kate doesn't want to. After lunch with her mother, Eleanor, the worst happens; New York City is attacked by the Chitauri invasion brought on by Loki, and with the Bishops' penthouse down the street from Avengers HQ, they're directly in the line of fire. The only thing that stops the Chitauri from doing more damage is, as Kate spies, the arrows shot by Clint Barton. He leaps off a nearby building as Eleanor grabs her daughter and rushes her from the apartment.
Kate's father, Derek, doesn't survive the attack. At his funeral, Kate worries that the Chitauri might, one day, come back, and she needs to protect herself and her mother when that day comes. It's why she asks for a bow and arrow.
In the present day, Kate has trained herself to be an adaptable aspiring hero. Though she practices on her university archery team, she gets herself into trouble when she fires an arrow at her university's clocktower bell, destroying the building altogether.