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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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