99 "History by Decade" Questions of Increasing Difficulty - Statistics

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%	Decade	Hint	Answer	% Correct
99%	1980s	City that was divided by a wall until 1989	Berlin	100%
94%	1960s	Language that Catholic masses were held in prior to the Second Vatican Council	Latin	100%
96%	1710s	French king who died after 72 years on the throne, the longest reign of any monarch in history	{Louis} {XIV}	100%
98%	1840s	Crop that failed in Ireland, triggering the Great Famine	Potato	100%
91%	1810s	Battle in Belgium that finally sealed Napoleon's downfall in 1815	Battle of Waterloo	94%
92%	1690s	Island group near Argentina which people set foot on for the first time in recorded history	{Falkland} Islands	94%
97%	1990s	The first black President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	94%
93%	1810s	Festival which was held in Munich for the first time	Oktoberfest	94%
95%	1880s	Artist who cut off part of his ear	Vincent Van Gogh	94%
87%	1720s	Novel written by Jonathan Swift	{Gulliver}'s Travels	88%
85%	1800s	Huge tract of land which the U.S. purchased from France	{Louisiana} Territory	88%
90%	2020s	Country which brought us pop music groups such as BTS, Blackpink, and Seventeen	South Korea	88%
89%	1960s	Country where the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in 1962	Cuba	81%
82%	1910s	Polish/French woman who won a Nobel Prize for chemistry	Marie Curie	81%
66%	1700s	Musical instrument invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori, an evolution of the harpsichord	Piano	81%
76%	1990s	British musical group who popularized the slogan "Girl Power"	Spice Girls	81%
84%	1950s	The first satellite to orbit the Earth	Sputnik	81%
81%	1820s	What Jean-François Champollion used to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs	The {Rosetta} Stone	81%
63%	1980s	1982 musical album which remains the best-selling of all-time	Thriller	81%
80%	1690s	Island off the coast of Tanzania which was captured by the Sultanate of Oman	Zanzibar	81%
74%	1860s	What Alfred Nobel invented	Dynamite	75%
65%	1990s	Country that gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993	Eritrea	75%
54%	1980s	Country in which a famine killed at least 300,000 people	Ethiopia	75%
79%	1800s	Northern country which Russia annexed and held until 1917	Finland	75%
88%	1660s	1665 painting by Johannes Vermeer	Girl with a {Pearl} Earring	75%
55%	2000s	Pope who died after a reign of 26 years, the third longest in history	John Paul II	75%
86%	1710s	Metal which Daniel Fahrenheit used to make the first practical thermometers	Mercury	75%
73%	1980s	World leader who had a prominent birthmark on his head	Mikhail Gorbachev	75%
67%	1800s	Round number that the Earth's population exceeded for the first time	One billion	75%
71%	1930s	Artist who painted "Guernica"	Pablo Picasso	75%
50%	1960s	Central European capital whose "spring" was crushed by Soviet tanks	Prague	75%
62%	1980s	City where hundreds of democracy protestors were massacred in 1989	Beijing	69%
75%	1810s	Brutal leader who was called "Uncle Joe" in an attempt to soften his image	Joseph Stalin	69%
70%	1970s	Organization that banned oil sales to the U.S. in 1973–74	OPEC	69%
53%	1860s	South American country that lost nearly its entire military-age male population in a horrific war	Paraguay	69%
72%	1790s	Disease which Edward Jenner created a vaccine to prevent	Smallpox	69%
51%	1890s	Pacific island which Paul Gauguin moved to	Tahiti	69%
48%	1770s	Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about a man who sold his soul to the devil	Faust	63%
64%	1910s	"Lost" city of the Incas which was rediscovered	Machu Picchu	63%
78%	1790s	System of weights and measures that was adopted in France	Metric System	63%
61%	2010s	Country whose population dipped from 21 million to 17 million due to a civil war and subsequent mass emigration	Syria	63%
77%	1670s	Branch of mathematics which was independently discovered by Newton and Leibniz	Calculus	56%
57%	1840s	Author who wrote "Jane Eyre"	Charlotte Brontë	56%
59%	2010s	Airline that had one plane mysteriously disappear and another shot down by Russian separatists	{Malaysia} Airlines	56%
49%	2010s	Country in which 276 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram	Nigeria	56%
60%	1820s	Country that conjoined twins Chang and Eng came from	Siam	56%
69%	1830s	Name of the forced migration of Cherokees, Seminoles, and other Native American tribes from their homelands to Oklahoma	Trail of {Tears}	56%
32%	1720s	War which was fought between Spain and Great Britain	War of Jenkins' {Ear}	56%
30%	1820s	The most common metal in the Earth's crust, it was extracted from ore for the first time and, at the time, was worth more than gold	Aluminum	50%
52%	1820s	Country, originally called New Holland, which gained its current name	Australia	50%
37%	1840s	"Empire" ruled by Dom Pedro II	Empire of Brazil	50%
36%	1850s	Simple device built to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth	Foucault's {Pendulum}	50%
46%	1720s	Royal dynasty founded in central Arabia in 1720	House of {Saud}	50%
56%	1800s	Dynasty that came to power in Vietnam (Hint: today it is the most common Vietnamese family name)	Nguyen	50%
58%	1850s	Country created by the union of Moldavia and Wallachia	Romania	50%
28%	1990s	Terrorist (or to some, a freedom fighter) who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after signing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords	Yasser Arafat	50%
42%	1790s	Type of bird that was killed in Coledrige's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	Albatross	44%
38%	1790s	Country which France (briefly) took from the Ottoman Empire	Egypt	44%
35%	1780s	European island where about 25% of the population died when a volcanic eruption killed most of the crops	Iceland	44%
40%	1860s	Country which was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian – a puppet of France	Mexico	44%
68%	1660s	Element with symbol P which was isolated by Hennig Brand, the first new element discovered since antiquity	Phosphorus	44%
45%	1860s	Waltz by Johann Strauss II named after a European river	The Blue Danube	44%
29%	1910s	Ballet by Igor Stravinsky that shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913	The Rite of {Spring}	44%
83%	1720s	Disease which killed more than half of the population of Marseille – marking its final major outbreak on the European continent	Bubonic plague	38%
24%	1820s	Type of people who were allowed to serve in British Parliament for the first time in 157 years	Catholics	38%
27%	2000s	Region of Russia which was the site of a bloody war	Chechnya	38%
25%	1910s	Song that featured the lyrics "from glen to glen, and down the mountain side"	Danny Boy	38%
33%	1860s	Company that technically owned about 1/3 of the area of Canada	Hudson's Bay Company	38%
47%	1800s	Cities on the Barbary Coast of Africa which the U.S. attacked to root out piracy (name any of the three)	Tripoli / Algiers / Tunis	38%
34%	1900s	President who was assassinated in Buffalo, New York by anarchist Leon Czolgosz	William McKinley	38%
39%	2000s	Militant group led by Mullah Mohammad Omar	The Taliban	31%
41%	1750s	City where Casanova escaped from prison after being arrested for affronts to religion and common decency	Venice	31%
31%	1800s	Drug synthesized from the poppy and named after the Greek god of dreams	Morphine	25%
44%	1980s	Stretchy synthetic fabric which became so popular that DuPont, its creator, had trouble meeting demand	Spandex	25%
43%	1890s	Crime which Alfred Dreyfus was accused of committing	Espionage	19%
16%	1970s	Type of futuristic building which Buckminster Fuller promoted	{Geodesic} Dome	19%
20%	1820s	"Ode to a Nightingale" poet who died of tuberculosis at the tender age of 25	John Keats	19%
22%	1720s	Mathematician who moved to St. Petersburg where he would author many of his 800 publications	Leonhard Euler	19%
23%	1970s	Author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"	Hunter S. Thompson	13%
9%	1810s	Volcano whose eruption caused the "Year without a Summer"	Mount {Tambora}	13%
19%	1720s	Speculative bubble which collapsed in 1720, costing Isaac Newton most of his fortune	{South} {Sea} Bubble	13%
15%	1760s	Astrological event in which Venus's atmosphere was first discovered	{Transit} of Venus	13%
8%	1930s	Early aviation pioneer and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930	Amy Johnson	6%
21%	1740s	Slaughter of over 10,000 Chinese by Dutch East India Company forces at the site of modern-day Jakarta	Batavia Massacre	6%
18%	1910s	Native American Olympic athlete who won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon	Jim Thorpe	6%
14%	1990s	City that was most affected by the Great Hanshin earthquake	Kobe	6%
7%	1970s	South Korean president assassinated in Seoul in 1979	Park Chung-hee	6%
13%	1960s	Jocelyn Bell, astronomy graduate student at the University of Cambridge, announces the discovery of this object, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star	Pulsar	6%
26%	1780s	Meeting called between the clergy, nobility, and people of France	The {Estates} General	6%
11%	1960s	Nobel prize winning Russian author who denounced the crimes of Stalin	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	0%
6%	1990s	City where the Israeli embassy was bombed	Buenos Aires	0%
12%	1740s	Series of wars fought on Mughal Empire territory between Britain and France for control of Southern India and the Deccan Plateau	Carnatic Wars	0%
4%	2010s	Chinese probe that becomes the first artificial object to land on the far side of the Moon	Chang'e 4	0%
10%	2010s	NASA rover that landed on Mars in 2012 to explore the planet’s surface	Curiosity	0%
1%	1740s	Royal Navy Commodore who led a squadron on a circumnavigation, capturing the treasure-laden Manila Galleon en route	George Anson	0%
5%	1730s	Navigational instrument invented independently by John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey, an early precursor to the sextant	Octant	0%
17%	1900s	Period of reform in the early 20th century	Progressive Era	0%
3%	1990s	Ukrainian chocolate brand created by future president of the country	Roshen	0%
2%	1840s	First elected governor of the State of Florida	William Moseley	0%

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