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General History By Year (1950-2000) - Statistics
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| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1953 | Joseph _____ leader of the Soviet Union, dies. | Stalin | 94%
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| 1963 | This US president was shot in Dallas | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 88%
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| 1959 | Fidel Castro assumes power of ____ | Cuba | 87%
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| 1950 | The _____ War starts in north eastern asia | Korean | 87%
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| 1964 | This future south african president is sentenced to jail for life. | Nelson Mandela | 86%
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| 1965 | The first US troops arrive in ______ | Vietnam | 84%
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| 1968 | Civil Rights Activist ______ is shot dead in Memphis | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 82%
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| 1957 | Russia launches the ______ I, the first earth-orbitting satelite | Sputnik | 81%
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| 1988 | The war between Iran and ____ officially ends, with over a million deaths because of it | Iraq | 75%
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| 1961 | US sponsored ex-Cubans invade Cuba at the ___ __ ____. | Bay of Pigs | 74%
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| 1987 | British Prime Minister ______ ______ , known as the Iron Lady, wins a third term. | Margaret Thatcher | 74%
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| 1982 | Britain is victorious over _______ in the Falklands war | Argentina | 73%
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| 1969 | Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, the crew of _____ walk the moon for the first time. | Apollo 11 | 69%
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| 1986 | The _______ Disaster, a nuclear accident causing an estimated 3940 deaths from radiation induced cancer, among other things. | Chernobyl | 67%
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| 1998 | Europeans agree to have one currency, the ____. | Euro | 67%
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| 1980 | This president is elected. | Ronald Reagan | 67%
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| 1967 | The Six Day War comes and goes between Arab forces and ______ | Israel | 66%
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| 1997 | JK Rowling's first book in the _______ series is published. | Harry Potter | 65%
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| 1981 | U.S. hostages from this country are freed. | Iran | 65%
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| 1985 | Soviet leader ______ _______ , the last Soviet leader gains power. | Mikhail Gorbachev | 63%
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| 1955 | West ______ becomes a sovereign state | Germany | 62%
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| 1972 | 11 Israeli Athletes are killed at the Olympic Games at ______ | Munich | 62%
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| 1990 | The famous cartoon sitcom _________ debuts on Fox. | The Simpsons | 58%
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| 1966 | This cartoonist died, or had himself cyrogenically frozen | Walt Disney | 57%
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| 1971 | Mao Zedong invites U.S. athletes to play ____ ____ | Ping Pong | 56%
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| 1978 | The _______, the first portable stereo, is introduced yet again by Sony | Walkman | 54%
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| 1996 | Rapper _____ _______, is shot down in a drive by shooting | Tupac Shakur | 52%
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| 1962 | _______ _______, wife of Arthur Miller(Death of a Salesman), dies of a drug overdose at age 36. | Marilyn Monroe | 50%
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| 1960 | The man thought to be responsible for the holocaust, Adolf ________, is captured by Israelis. He was executed in 1962 | Eichmann | 42%
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| 1970 | Janis Joplin and ________ both died at age 27. | Jimi Hendrix | 41%
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| 1991 | This state dissolves | Soviet Union | 37%
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| 1992 | This trade is signed between the USA, Mexico, and Canada | NAFTA | 35%
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| 1976 | _____, probably the most well known and legendary sports movie of all time, is released | Rocky | 35%
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| 1993 | This palace becomes open to the public | Buckingham Palace | 33%
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| 1984 | Apple introduces the ________, the most user-friendly computer so far. | Macintosh | 31%
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| 1979 | A nuclear accident at ___ ____ _____, in Pennsylvania releases radiation | Three Mile Island | 31%
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| 1973 | ______ _____ wins the Academy Award for best actor, but Sacheen Littlefeather stands in his place to protest U.S. treatment of Native Americans | Marlon Brando | 29%
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| 1999 | People anxiously await the ___ apocalyptic bug. | Y2K | 29%
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| 1983 | The US invades ______ | Grenada | 28%
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| 1974 | Nixon and which Russian leader meet to discuss nuclear arms limitation agreements. | Leonid Brezhnev | 27%
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| 1975 | The ___, the first commercial method of watching videos at home, is developed by Sony | VHS | 26%
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| 1994 | Olympic ice skater ______ _______ was attacked, allegedly by her competitior Tonya Harding | Nancy Kerrigan | 19%
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| 1995 | Olympic ice skater ________ is attacked by the ex-husband of her main competitor, Tonya Harding | Nancy Kerrigan | 19%
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| 1958 | Truman Capote writes this classic. | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 18%
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| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education of ______(city), a landmark civil right case for the U.S, occurs | Topeka | 17%
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| 1951 | The __ Ammendment is passed, which limits the amount of terms a President can serve | 22nd | 16%
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| 1989 | A massive earthquake of a 7.2 magnitude occurs, destroying a hundred thousand buildings in the city of ________ | San Francisco | 16%
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| 1956 | Elvis Presley tops music charts for the first time, with hit single _______ _______ | Heartbreak Hotel | 13%
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| 1977 | The South African activist _____ ____ dies at the hands of Afrikaner police | Steve Biko | 12%
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| 1952 | ______ __ __ _____, a movie about two movie stars transitioning out of the silent era, is released | Singin' in the Rain | 9%
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| 2000 | Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, ending a 71 year reign of this party | Institutional Revolutionary Party(PRI) | 4%
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