This Day in History - January - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Jan 3	1959	State which joined the US, the 49th to do so	Alaska	95%
Jan 4	2010	City where Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, was opened	Dubai	95%
Jan 1	2002	Currency which entered circulation for the first time	Euro	94%
Jan 20	2009	President of the U.S. who was inaugurated	Barack Obama	92%
Jan 21	1793	Device used to execute Louis XVI of France	Guillotine	88%
Jan 10	49 BC	General who crossed the Rubicon	Julius Caesar	88%
Jan 22	1901	Queen who died after a reign of 63 years	Queen Victoria	87%
Jan 9	1349	Pandemic which the population of Basel blamed on their Jewish residents, who were rounded up and burned alive	Black Death	85%
Jan 2	1492	Country whose "reconquest" was completed by the capture of Granada	Spain	85%
Jan 26	1924	City renamed Leningrad	Petrograd	81%
Jan 17	1929	Spinach-guzzling cartoon character who appeared for the first time	Popeye	81%
Jan 7	1610	Scientist who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	80%
Jan 30	1969	Band which performed on the roof of Apple Records, its final concert	The Beatles	80%
Jan 5	1914	Manufacturing company which doubled pay to $5 a day	Ford	79%
Jan 19	1981	Country which released U.S. hostages after 444 days	Iran	78%
Jan 18	1778	British sea captain who "discovered" Hawaii	James Cook	77%
Jan 11	1964	Activity which the U.S. Surgeon General warned may be hazardous to one's health	Smoking	77%
Jan 31	2010	Film which became the first to gross $2 billion worldwide	Avatar	76%
Jan 16	27 BC	Title granted to Octavian by the Roman Senate, an event usually considered to mark the start of the Roman Empire	Augustus	75%
Jan 25	1533	Woman who married Henry VIII, the second of his six wives	Anne Boleyn	72%
Jan 8	1959	President of France who was inaugurated, the first of the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle	68%
Jan 23	1368	Dynasty which came to power in China	Ming	66%
Jan 27	1984	Pop singer whose hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial	Michael Jackson	65%
Jan 28	1986	Space shuttle which exploded	Challenger	63%
Jan 12	2010	Country struck by an earthquake which killed over 100,000 people	Haiti	63%
Jan 14	1953	Country where Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as President	Yugoslavia	62%
Jan 29	1820	"Mad" king who died after a reign of nearly 60 years	George III	57%
Jan 15	1892	Game whose rules were published by James Naismith	Basketball	55%
Jan 13	1968	Singer who performed at Folsom State Prison	Johnny Cash	55%
Jan 24	41	Depraved Roman emperor who was assassinated	Caligula	51%
Jan 6	1066	King of England who was crowned. The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, he would die at the Battle of Hastings 10 months later.	Harold Godwinson	45%

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