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Current Events by Year, 1890–1909 - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 18,900 times
- The average score is 15 of 20
Answer Stats
| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1903 | Invention demonstrated by the Wright Brothers | Airplane | 94%
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| 1896 | City which hosted the first modern Olympic games | Athens | 90%
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| 1904 | Country which launched a surprise attack on Russian forces in the Pacific | Japan | 89%
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| 1908 | Country that King Leopold II of Belgium relinquished personal control over after atrocities came to light | Congo Free State | 87%
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| 1901 | Monarch who died after a reign of 63 years | Queen Victoria | 84%
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| 1890 | Dutch painter who committed suicide in France | Vincent van Gogh | 84%
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| 1900 | French restaurant guide created to increase demand for car tires | Michelin Guide | 83%
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| 1894 | Last person to be crowned as Tsar of Russia | {Nicholas} II | 81%
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| 1906 | U.S. city which was devastated by an earthquake and fire | San Francisco | 81%
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| 1892 | Christmas ballet which debuted in St. Petersburg, Russia | The Nutcracker | 78%
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| 1909 | City which was founded by Jewish settlers just outside of Jaffa | Tel Aviv | 76%
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| 1898 | Country which the U.S. declared war on following the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine | Spain | 75%
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| 1905 | Patent examiner living in Bern who published four important physics papers in one miraculous year | Albert Einstein | 73%
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| 1902 | South African conflict which came to an end after the British used concentration camps to control the civilian population | Anglo–{Boer} War | 68%
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| 1891 | Sport invented by James Naismith | Basketball | 68%
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| 1899 | Thinker who published "The Interpretation of Dreams" | Sigmund Freud | 63%
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| 1897 | Invention patented by Guglielmo Marconi | Radio telegraphy | 58%
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| 1893 | Amusement ride which made its debut at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | Ferris wheel | 57%
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| 1895 | Irish writer arrested for gross indecency | Oscar Wilde | 54%
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| 1907 | Painter who completed his famous work "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" | Pablo Picasso | 50%
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