American History 1900s - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was the US president during World War I?	Woodrow Wilson	98%
Which event led the United States to enter WWII?	attack on Pearl Harbor	95%
Where was the Titanic supposed to arrive in 1912?	New York	93%
Who points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I?	Uncle Sam	93%
In 1937 a zeppelin airship exploded in flames over New Jersey. What was its name?	Hindenburg	90%
Al Capone was an organized crime boss in which city during the Prohibition era?	Chicago	88%
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?	Cuba	88%
Which US president was accused of having an extramarital affair with a White House intern?	Bill Clinton	86%
What religion did human rights activist Malcolm X turn to while in prison?	Islam	86%
What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in Word War II?	Nagasaki	86%
What were the name of the Wright brothers who pioneered aviation and changed the world in 1903?	Orville and Wilbur	86%
Who was the US president at the start of WWII?	Franklin Roosevelt	83%
Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?	John F. Kennedy	83%
To keep USA out of World War I, Germany promised to Mexico three US states to reconquer. Which one they did not promise?	Louisiana	83%
The United States joined World War I after what ship was sunk by a German submarine?	Lusitania	83%
What United States president resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal?	Richard Nixon	83%
In which city was US president John F. Kennedy assassinated on November 22, 1963?	Dallas	81%
Which American president ordered to use the atomic bomb against Japan in WWII?	Harry S. Truman	81%
Which US President asked Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall?	Ronald Reagan	81%
Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	John F. Kennedy	79%
What territory agreed to join the United States as the 50th state in 1959?	Hawaii	76%
In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across what body of water?	Atlantic ocean	74%
In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights?	Washington	74%
First long distance telephone service in USA was demonstrated between New York and what other city in 1915?	San Francisco	71%
Who was George Marshall after whom the Marshall Plan was named in 1948?	Secretary of State	71%
What United States general led the army in the Pacific and the fighting against Japan?	Douglas MacArthur	69%
In what US city a terrorist bomb blew up a portion of a federal building on April 19, 1995?	Oklahoma City	69%
In which state at Columbine High School 15 people were killed in massacre in 1999?	Colorado	67%
Which ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor when over 1100 US soldiers lost their lives?	USS Arizona	62%
What US president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War?	Theodore Roosevelt	50%
Who was a prohibition agent who fought against Al Capone and whose group was named the "Untouchables?"	Eliot Ness	43%
The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 is the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Where did it occurr?	Alaska	40%
What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?	Black Tuesday	40%
From which country USA purchased Virgin Islands in 1916?	Denmark	33%

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