| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Inaugeration of President Barack Obama | 2009 Jan 20 | 81%
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| Stock market crash precipitating the Great Depression | 1929 Oct 29 | 80%
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| Terrorist attacks on New York and Washington | 2001 Sep 11 | 80%
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| Attack on Pearl Harbor | 1941 Dec 07 | 79%
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| Ratification of the Declaration of Independence | 1776 Jul 04 | 73%
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| World War I armistice | 1918 Nov 11 | 73%
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| D-Day | 1944 Jun 06 | 73%
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| Apollo 11 Moon Landing | 1969 Jul 20 | 73%
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| Hurricane Katrina | 2005 Aug 29 | 73%
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| Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (date of attack) | 1865 Apr 14 | 70%
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| Osama bin Laden killed | 2011 May 02 | 69%
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| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 Jul 04 | 64%
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| Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr | 1968 Apr 04 | 64%
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| Assassination of John F. Kennedy | 1963 Nov 22 | 62%
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| Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima | 1945 Aug 06 | 60%
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| Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote | 1919 Aug 18 | 59%
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| Boston Tea Party | 1773 Dec 16 | 57%
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| Founding of St. Augustine | 1565 Sep 08 | 56%
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| Settlement of the Colony of Virginia at Jamestown | 1607 May 14 | 56%
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| Establishment of the Constitution | 1788 Jun 21 | 56%
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| Establishment of the Plymouth Colony | 1620 Dec 21 | 53%
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| Battle of Gettysburg | 1863 Jul 01 | 53%
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| Viet Nam cease-fire agreement signed in Paris | 1973 Jan 27 | 52%
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| Trinity Test (First atomic bomb test) | 1945 Jul 16 | 50%
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| Columbine school shooting | 1999 Apr 20 | 47%
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| Attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina | 1861 Apr 12 | 46%
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| Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 Jan 01 | 46%
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| Wright Brothers make first controlled, sustained airplane flight | 1903 Dec 17 | 46%
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| U.S. Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran | 1979 Nov 04 | 46%
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| Rev. Martin Luthern King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech | 1963 Aug 28 | 43%
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| Battles of Lexington and Concord | 1775 Apr 19 | 42%
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| Assassination of President William McKinley (date of attack) | 1901 Sep 06 | 42%
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| San Francisco Earthquake | 1906 Apr 18 | 42%
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| Charles Lindbergh makes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight | 1927 May 20 | 42%
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| Space Shuttle Challenger explosion | 1986 Jan 28 | 42%
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| Oklahoma City bombing | 1995 Apr 19 | 38%
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| Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | 1954 May 17 | 37%
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| Battle of the Alamo | 1836 Mar 06 | 35%
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| Assassination of President James Garfield (date of attack) | 1881 Jul 02 | 35%
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| Little Rock Central High School desegregation | 1957 Sep 24 | 34%
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| John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia | 1859 Oct 16 | 33%
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| Battle of New Orleans | 1815 Jan 08 | 32%
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| Panama Canal opens | 1914 Aug 15 | 32%
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| Battle of the Little Bighorn | 1876 Jun 25 | 31%
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (ending Mexican-American War) | 1848 Feb 02 | 28%
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| John Glenn becomes first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth | 1962 Feb 20 | 28%
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| Exxon Valdez oil spill | 1987 Jun 12 | 27%
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| Selma to Montgomery civil rights march | 1965 Mar 07 | 22%
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| Kent State massacre | 1970 May 01 | 22%
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| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | 1869 May 10 | 20%
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