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This Day in History - February - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 39,824 times
25,885 since last reset
- The average score is 20 of 29
Answer Stats
| Date | Year | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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| Feb 4 | 2004 | Website founded by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room | 98%
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| Feb 15 | 1898 | City where the USS Maine exploded, sparking the Spanish-American War | Havana | 94%
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| Feb 18 | 1930 | Dwarf planet discovered at the Lowell Observatory in New Mexico | Pluto | 92%
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| Feb 14 | 1876 | Device patented by Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 90%
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| Feb 16 | 1923 | Pharaoh whose tomb was unsealed by Howard Carter | Tutankhamun | 87%
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| Feb 10 | 2005 | Country which announced that is has nuclear weapons | North Korea | 85%
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| Feb 27 | 1933 | Building in Berlin which suffered heavy damage in an arson attack | Reichstag building | 82%
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| Feb 9 | 1964 | Rock band that appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" | The Beatles | 81%
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| Feb 21 | 1848 | Manifesto published by Marx and Engels | The {Communist} Manifesto | 80%
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| Feb 26 | 1815 | General who escaped from the island of Elba | Napoleon Bonaparte | 79%
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| Feb 17 | 1972 | German car model which passed the Model T to become the best-selling in history to that point | Volkswagen Beetle | 78%
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| Feb 13 | 1913 | Country whose independence was proclaimed by the 13th Dalai Lama | Tibet | 77%
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| Feb 7 | 2009 | Country where 173 people were killed by the "Black Saturday" wildfires | Australia | 75%
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| Feb 5 | 1939 | Generalísimo who became leader of Spain | Francisco Franco | 73%
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| Feb 1 | 2004 | Singer who had a "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl halftime show | Janet Jackson | 73%
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| Feb 12 | 1832 | Country which annexed the Galápagos Islands | Ecuador | 72%
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| Feb 11 | 1990 | Boxer defeated by Buster Douglas in a shocking upset | Mike Tyson | 67%
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| Feb 23 | 1455 | Printer who published his first Bibles | Johannes Gutenberg | 64%
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| Feb 25 | 1956 | Soviet leader who gave his so-called "secret speech" denouncing Stalin | Nikita Khrushchev | 61%
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| Feb 6 | 1819 | City founded by Sir Stamford Raffles near the Strait of Malacca | Singapore | 59%
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| Feb 22 | 2011 | City in New Zealand where 185 people died in an earthquake | Christchurch | 58%
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| Feb 8 | 1950 | Country which established the Stasi, its secret police force | East Germany | 58%
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| Feb 20 | 1877 | Tchaikovsky ballet which premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow | Swan Lake | 57%
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| Feb 28 | 202 BC | Dynasty which began in China with the ascension of Liu Bang as emperor | Han | 56%
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| Feb 3 | 1959 | Musician who died in a plane crash with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (known as the "Day the Music Died") | Buddy Holly | 55%
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| Feb 2 | 1922 | Author whose novel "Ulysses" was first published | James Joyce | 52%
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| Feb 29 | 2004 | Country where Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed by a coup | Haiti | 46%
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| Feb 24 | 1989 | Author whose death was called for by Ayatollah Khomeini, who offered a $3 million bounty | Salman Rushdie | 46%
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| Feb 19 | 1986 | Space station launched by the Soviet Union (its name means "peace" in Russian) | Mir | 41%
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