1890s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Sporting event which was held for the first time in over 1,600 years	Olympic Games	94%
Christmas ballet written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky	The Nutcracker	88%
Famous villain who was created by Bram Stoker	Dracula	85%
Style of dance that was invented in Argentina and Uruguay	Tango	80%
Nation which the United States declared war on after the sinking of the USS Maine	Spain	70%
Future U.S. President who led a group of soldiers called the Rough Riders	Theodore Roosevelt	67%
Author who wrote "The Jungle Book"?	Rudyard Kipling	64%
Gold rush that happened in Canada	{Klondike} Gold Rush	57%
Irish writer was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to hard labor	Oscar Wilde	54%
Pacific island which Paul Gauguin moved to	Tahiti	51%
Famous hotel in Paris that opened in 1898. (The only reason not to stay there was if you couldn't afford it)	Hôtel Ritz	50%
Type of radiation discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen	X-Ray	49%
Crime which Alfred Dreyfus was accused of committing	Espionage	43%
Nickname which has been given to the decade	{Gay} Nineties	43%
French term for an impoverished, unconventional, artistic person	Bohémien	38%
Style of sensationalist journalism practiced by William Randolph Hearst	{Yellow} Journalism	38%
Massachusetts woman accused of killing her parents with an axe	Lizzie Borden	37%
Term that referred to a wealthy American industrialist	{Robber} baron	37%
Type of baskets which were originally used in basketball	{Peach} baskets	35%
Composer who wrote his most famous march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"	John Philip Sousa	28%

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