20th Century by Letter - B - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City divided by a wall from 1961-1989	Berlin	100%
John, Paul, George, and Ringo	The Beatles	100%
Region of the Atlantic Ocean which became infamous for ship and aircraft disappearances	Bermuda Triangle	92%
Last major German offensive of World War II's Western Front	Battle of the {Bulge}	84%
Russian revolutionary faction led by Lenin	Bolsheviks	84%
Site of a failed invasion into Cuba backed by the US government	Bay of Pigs	78%
Leader of the USSR from 1964-1982	Brezhnev, Leonid	73%
Series of wars from 1912-13 involving Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, the Ottoman Empire, Romania, and Serbia	{Balkan} Wars	65%
Danish scientist who made great advancements in our understanding of atomic structure	Bohr, Niels	62%
German design school that married aesthetics with mass production principles	Bauhaus	51%
First female prime minister of Pakistan, as well as the first in any Muslim majority country	Bhutto, Benazir	51%
First prime minister of Israel	Ben-Gurion, David	46%
Indian city that in 1984 faced the world's worst industrial disaster	Bhopal	46%
The Axis invasion of the USSR — the costliest offensive in history	Operation {Barbarossa}	43%
Chinese rebels who opposed foreign influence and gained the support of the Empress Dowager in January 1900	Boxers	38%
French feminist and social theorist who authored The Second Sex	Beauvoir, Simone de	35%
Estate in Buckinghamshire that served as the hub for the UK's codebreaking efforts during WWII	Bletchley Park	32%
Creator of the World Wide Web	Berners-Lee, Tim	24%
The first synthetic plastic, created in 1907	Bakelite	16%
Sixteen chemical elements were discovered here from 1940-1974	{Berkeley} Lab	11%
1970 cyclone that ravaged communities north of the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 300,000 and spurring political upheaval	Bhola Cyclone	5%
Father of the Green Revolution; his work in bolstering agricultural yields have likely spared billions from famine	Borlaug, Norman	3%

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