| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| World War I begins | 1914 | 96%
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| Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon | 1969 | 95%
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| Columbus "discovers" America | 1492 | 92%
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| The U.S. Declaration of Independence is signed | 1776 | 90%
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| Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1989 | 90%
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| The start of the Great Depression | 1929 | 81%
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| The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor | 1941 | 81%
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| Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo | 1815 | 77%
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| The Wright Brothers fly the first airplane | 1903 | 76%
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| Edison patents the light bulb | 1879 | 73%
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| The U.S. Civil War begins | 1861 | 72%
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| King John signs the Magna Carta | 1215 | 68%
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| The Black Plague reaches Europe | 1347 | 66%
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| The Protestant Reformation begins | 1517 | 64%
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| The Spanish Armada sails to invade England but is scattered | 1588 | 64%
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| The Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes and others try to blow up the English Parliament | 1605 | 63%
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| Alexander the Great dies in Babylon | 323 BC | 63%
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| Muhammed dies in Medina | 632 | 59%
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| The Thirty Years War comes to an end with the Peace of Westphalia | 1648 | 54%
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| Constantinople falls to Turkish invaders - ending the Byzantine Empire | 1453 | 49%
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