Timeline of the 20th Century - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?	British	100%
What was the first city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in World War II?	Hiroshima	100%
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?	Mount Everest	100%
The Nazi invasion of what country triggered World War II in Europe in 1939?	Poland	100%
In which city was archduke Franz Ferdinand killed, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I?	Sarajevo	100%
What was the first feature-length animated movie that was released in 1937?	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	100%
Which event in 1941 led the United States to enter World War II?	The attack on Pearl Harbor	100%
What worldwide conflict came to an end when Margaret Thatcher was British Prime Minister?	Cold War	88%
In which city Princess Diana died in car accident in 1997?	Paris	88%
Which pharaoh's tomb was famously discovered by Howard Carter in the early 20th century?	Tutankhamun	88%
In what present county Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986?	Ukraine	88%
Who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution that started in 1917?	Vladimir Lenin	88%
When was the first FIFA World Cup hosted?	1930	75%
Who fought in undeclared Falkland Islands War in 1982?	Argentina and Great Britain	75%
What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?	Black Tuesday	75%
Which Olympic games were remembered when 11 Israeli athletes were massacred by Palestinian terrorists?	Munich 1972	75%
Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	75%
Which artist painted "Guernica", the painting that helped bringing worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War?	Pablo Picasso	75%
What is the first artificial satellite launched in space in 1957?	Sputnik 1	75%
What famous ocean liner was christened in Belfast in 1911?	Titanic	75%
What was the name of Nicolae Ceausescu's wife who was executed along with him during the 1989 Romanian Revolution?	Elena	63%
Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005?	John Paul II	63%
What group did Mother Teresa form in 1950 to help the poor and needy?	Missionaries of Charity	63%
In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights in 1963?	Washington	63%
When did East and West Germany reunite?	1990	50%
Which physicist first identified the atomic nucleus in 1911?	Ernest Rutherford	50%
Pablo Escobar was a drug lord and the founder of which Colombian cartel?	Medellin	50%
What was Princess Diana's official title after she married Prince Charles?	Princess of Wales	50%
Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?	Roald Amundsen	50%
What conflict Northern Ireland experienced throughout the second half of the 20th century?	The Troubles	50%
How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded every year since 1901?	Five	38%
The Schengen Agreement from 1985 is a treaty that built a Europe without borders. Where is the city of Schengen located?	Luxembourg	38%
Which explorer is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909?	Robert Peary	38%
How many conflicts were there during Balkan wars that started in 1912?	Two	38%
Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China in 1908?	2	25%

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