| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Ship that sank after hitting an iceberg | RMS Titanic | 100%
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| Canal that was completed in 1914 | {Panama} Canal | 94%
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| Epidemic that killed more than 1% of the world's population, making it roughly 10 times as deadly as Covid-19 | Spanish Flu | 86%
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| Archduke who was assassinated in Sarajevo | Franz Ferdinand | 85%
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| Treaty that officially ended WWI between Germany and the Allies | Treaty of {Versailles} | 83%
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| Polish/French woman who won a Nobel Prize for chemistry | Marie Curie | 82%
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| Empire where there was a genocide against Armenians, Greeks, and Syriac Christians | Ottoman Empire | 72%
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| Yellow-brown chemical weapon that was used, first by the Germans, but later by the Allies | Mustard gas | 71%
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| "Lost" city of the Incas which was rediscovered | Machu Picchu | 64%
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| Nickname of pilot Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Baron | 63%
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| President of the U.S. for most of the decade | Woodrow Wilson | 63%
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| Communist faction that came to power in Russia | Bolshevik | 62%
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| Oil baron who became the first U.S. dollar billionaire | John D. Rockefeller | 59%
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| Movie by D. W. Griffith that glorified the Ku Klux Klan | The Birth of a {Nation} | 59%
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| British adventurer who fought in the Arab Revolt | T. E. Lawrence | 57%
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| Then-illegal practice which was advocated by Margaret Sanger | Birth control | 39%
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| Playwright who wrote "Pygmalion" | George Bernard Shaw | 29%
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| Ballet by Igor Stravinsky that shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913 | The Rite of {Spring} | 29%
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| Song that featured the lyrics "from glen to glen, and down the mountain side" | Danny Boy | 25%
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| Native American athlete who won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon | Jim Thorpe | 18%
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