One Event for Each Year in American History - Statistics

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1777	The Continental Congress adopts the stars and	Stripes	100%
1907	Teddy shakes 8,513 hands in _ day	1	97%
1903	Theodore and Edith _________ renovate the White House	Roosevelt	97%
1787	Delaware become the first offical U.S___	State	97%
2005	The first African- American woman to become Secretary of _____	State	97%
2022	Russia invades________	Ukraine	97%
2011	The killing of Osama ________	Bin Laden	94%
1904	Previous commissions the Panama ______	Canal	94%
1834	Stephen F. Austin is imprisoned in Mexico_____	City	94%
1838	The Great Western docks in New York_____	City	94%
1911	The next answer sets sail for New York _____	City	94%
1906	San Fransisco suffers a 7.9____	Earthquake	94%
1972	Aretha _______ sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral	Franklin	94%
1960	John F. ________ announces he's running for president (big mistake)	Kennedy	94%
1886	The Statue of________ is given to the United States	Liberty	94%
1976	The ______ Bell is moved	Liberty	94%
1789	George Washington becomes the first_____	President	94%
1796	George Washington declines a third____	Term	94%
1893	Grover Cleveland gets elected to a second nonconsecutive____	Term	94%
1950	The U.S enters the Korean____	War	94%
1965	The U.S enters the Vietnam___	War	94%
1974	Richard Nixon resigns because of the ________ Scandal	Watergate	94%
1835	Richard Lawrence becomes the first person to attempt to _________ a president	Assassinate	91%
1933	Someone attempted to ____________ FDR	Assassinate	91%
1979	Carter proposes to make MLK's __________ a federal holiday	Birthday	91%
1861	Beginning of the_____	Civil War	91%
1810	The temperature in New Hampshire dropped from 54°F to -12°F in one____	Day	91%
1971	Charles Liston is found ____ by his wife	Dead	91%
1957	Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle_____	East	91%
1885	Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry _____	Finn	91%
1978	Harbey Milk becomes the first openly ___person elected to public office in CA	Gay	91%
1793	Eli Whitney invents the Cotton____	Gin	91%
2023	Hamas attacks ______	Israel	91%
1824	An election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew_______	Jackson	91%
1863	Stonewall ______ is killed	Jackson	91%
1969	The moon______	Landing	91%
1800	John Adams become the first president to ____ in the White House	Live	91%
1854	The ______ party is founded	Republican	91%
1934	Babe ____ gets a pay cut	Ruth	91%
1912	The unsinkable ship sinks	Titanic	91%
1833	A ____ derails at Hightstown New Jersey	Train	91%
1853	Franklin Pierce's child dies in a _____-wreck	Train	91%
1874	Jesse James robs a ______ in Missouri	Train	91%
1913	Roosevelt ran for another term splitting the vote making Woodrow ______ president despite getting 42% in the popular vote	Wilson	91%
1849	Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first ____ to earn a medical degree in the US	Woman	91%
1994	Malcom _'s daughter is arrested	X	91%
1923	Warren G. Harding suddenly dies of a heart_____	Attack	88%
1870	The Brooklyn________ is completed	Bridge	88%
1852	Uncle Tom's _____ gets published	Cabin	88%
1788	Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the _____	Constitution	88%
1929	The stock market ______	Crash	88%
2008	the Financial_____	Crash	88%
1778	Oliver Pollack creates this symbol "$" (type what the symbol is)	Dollar	88%
1936	The first baseball hall of _____	Fame	88%
1897	William McKinley is inaugurated to his _____ term	First	88%
1945	The United States drops nuclear bombs on ______ and Nagasaki effectively ending WW2	Hiroshima	88%
1865	Abaraham Lincoln is shot by______	John Wilkes Booth	88%
1962	The Cuban ______Crisis	Missile	88%
1939	The Wizard of __ releases	Oz	88%
1803	America expands due to the Louisiana______	Purchase	88%
1867	The Alaska_____	Purchase	88%
1817	John Adams' song John _____ Adams becomes Secretary of State	Quincy	88%
1832	The source of the Mississippi_____ is discovered	River	88%
1926	Disney Brothers Studios becomes known as _____ Disney Studios	Walt	88%
1792	The first Columbus Day is celebrated in New	York	88%
1918	the __th amendment	18	84%
1984	Van Halen releases an album (same name as the year it came out)	1984	84%
1914	Hery For announces his $_ minimum per day wage	5	84%
1779	John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great____	Britain	84%
1944	Flying Ace, Pappy Boyington was shot_____ by Japanese forces	Down	84%
1961	The first episode of the Dick Van _____ Show is filmed	Dyke	84%
1890	the first U.S edition of Sherlock _________	Holmes	84%
2007	Steve Jobs introduces the_____	iPhone	84%
1826	John Adams and Thomas _____die the same day	Jefferson	84%
1825	One of the previous men gets elected president (type the name)	John Quincy Adams	84%
1797	Nathaniel Briggs patents the washing___	Machine	84%
1846	Congress votes for a war against _______	Mexico	84%
1841	William Henry Harrison dies only one _____ into office	Month	84%
2020	The COVID-19 ________ takes over the world	Pandemic	84%
1813	Pride and ______ was pubslihed	Prejudice	84%
2021	Elon Musk becomes the worlds ________ Person	Richest	84%
1898	The _______-American war begins	Spanish	84%
1981	Muhammad Ali talks a person out of committing _________	Suicide	84%
1989	(My sister made me put this one) Taylor_______ is born	Swift	84%
1951	The 22nd amendment was ratified, limiting a president to only ___ terms	Two	84%
1790	George Washington gives the first state of the _____ adress	Union	84%
1977	Star _____ releases in theaters	Wars	84%
1814	The British burn down the	White House	84%
1812	The war of____ begins	1812	81%
1780	______ Arnold betrays America	Benedict	81%
1942	Winston ________ flies to Florida	Churchill	81%
1828	The_________party is founded	Democratic	81%
1879	______ patents the electric lamp	Edison	81%
1868	Andrew Johnson becomes the first president to be _______	Impeached	81%
1998	Clinton gets________	Impeached	81%
1902	It became criminal for ___ to "looking at a woman in that way"	Men	81%
1776	Thomas Paine publishes Common____	Sense	81%
1807	Aaron____ was arrested for treason	Burr	78%
1798	The Marine_____ is established	Corps	78%
1805	Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific	Ocean	78%
1920	The beginning of ______ outlawing alcohol	Prohibition	78%
1781	Previous burns the capital of Virginia (type the capital)	Richmond	78%
1917	Uncle ___ was popularized	Sam	78%
1997	Frank ______ has a heart attack	Sinatra	78%
1975	Phyllis Diller gets a ____ on the Walk of Fame	Star	78%
1830	The beginning of the Trail of _____	Tears	78%
2001	The ________ are hit by terrorist planes	Twin Towers	78%
1941	Pearl Harbor is bombed marking the U.S involvement into______	World War 2	78%
1959	Alaska become the __ state	49th	75%
2002	No Child Left ______ act	Behind	75%
2010	Simon Cowell leaves American ____	Idol	75%
1783	Great Britain recognizes U.S_________	Independence	75%
1987	Reagan signs a secret order permitting covert arms sale to ____	Iran	75%
1932	Charles Lindbergh's son was_____________	Kidnapped	75%
1844	John C. Frémont discover ____ Tahoe	Lake	75%
1963	John F. Kennedy is Assassinated by	Lee Harvey Oswald	75%
1848	Phineas Gage has a tamping rod go through his Frontal____	Lobe	75%
1823	James Monroe creates a doctrine bearing his name (type the doctrines name)	Monroe Doctrine	75%
2009	Michael Jackson dies of an	Overdose	75%
1802	Martha Washington ______ away	Passes	75%
1784	Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness about the eagle being America's____	Symbol	75%
1804	Lewis and Clark go out ____	West	75%
1909	William Taft becomes the 27th president during a __" snowstorm	10	72%
1850	A compromise was made with the name of its year, it was the Compromise of___	1850	72%
1943	Josh Gibson suffers a nervous ______	Breakdown	72%
2015	Schitt's _____ is created	Creek	72%
1956	Elvis records Heartbreak_______	Hotel	72%
1888	Francis Tumblety flees to the U.S after being accused of the Jack the______ murders	Ripper	72%
1799	George Washington's body is buried at Mount____	Vernon	72%
1928	Steamboat _______ is made	Willie	72%
1856	The American Party nominates their presidential candidate Millard________	Fillmore	69%
2003	Jimmy _____ Live! premiers	Kimmel	69%
1860	South Carolina _______from the Union	Secedes	69%
1900	Next answer gets his _______ term	Second	69%
1905	Elihu Root becomes ________ of State	Secretary	69%
1947	A doctrine was made titled with the current president, the ____ Doctrine	Truman	69%
1946	Bikini ____ is evacuated	Atol	66%
1991	The ________ ends	Cold War	66%
1880	James A. ________ is inaugurated as president	Garfield	66%
1925	The Great _____ is pubslihed	Gatsby	66%
1801	John Marshall is appointed Chief_____	Justice	66%
1930	Taft resigns as Chief _______	Justice	66%
1919	Henry Ford's ___succeeds Henry	Son	66%
1922	Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to _____ over radio	Speak	66%
1819	Thomas Jefferson and others founded the University of________	Virginia	66%
1862	A confederate general (his name is the next question) moves north of ________	Virginia	66%
1966	The original ______ show starring Adam West releases	Batman	63%
1872	Louis Riel is exiled to St,____ Minnesota	Paul	63%
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt gets elected to a third term making him the person with the longest ____	Presidency	63%
1847	The Battle of Buena____	Vista	63%
2024	Donald Trump gets convicted of __ charges	34	59%
2004	Casey Kasem gives up hosting American Top __	40	59%
2006	Kobe Bryant scores __ points in a game	81	59%
1990	First________ American NY Mayor	African	59%
1899	The previous war ____	Ends	59%
1996	The last The ___ Side comic	Far	59%
1970	The Zapurder ____ is publically released	Film	59%
1953	Truman announces the ________ Bomb	Hydrogen	59%
1980	Frank Sinatra plays in Rio de_______	Janeiro	59%
1901	Leon Czolgosz Shoots President William _____	McKinley	59%
1808	The importation of _____ into the U.S was banned	Slaves	59%
1786	Shay's _________ starts	Rebellion	56%
1937	Howard Hughes sets the transcontinental air ______ with 7h 28m 25s	Record	56%
1857	The Dred _____ Decision	Scott	56%
1864	Grant is named commander of the ____ army	U.S	56%
1892	A mine explosion kills ___ people	100	53%
1895	The Red Badge of _________ is pubslihed	Courage	53%
1785	Congress votes to change the U.S _______to the dollar	Currency	53%
2017	Obama gives Biden Presidential Medal of _______	Freedom	53%
1999	Clinton Impeachment _____	Trial	53%
1845	The first Dark _____ president, Jame K. Polk gets elected	Horse	50%
1921	Warren G. Harding becomes the __th president	29	47%
1924	The follow the bouncing ___ technique for music was invented by Max Fleischer	Ball	47%
1967	Wilt Chamberlain makes all 15 field _____ attempts	Goal	47%
1891	Benjamin _________ visits San Fransisco	Harrison	47%
1795	U.S and Great Britain sign the Jay_____	Treaty	47%
2013	Mike Pence becomes governor of ________	Indiana	44%
1954	Segregation in______ was labeled unconstitutional	Schools	44%
1866	Jesse James steals $ __,000	15	41%
1958	The __________ Karamazov premiers	Brothers	41%
1821	James Boyd patents the rubber fire_____	Hose	41%
2019	Trump's ____ Office Address	Oval	41%
1843	An alligator fell out of the____	Sky	41%
1884	The Statue of Liberty is presented to the U.S in______	Paris	38%
1910	Taft throws the first_____	Pitch	38%
1964	Johnson declares a war on _________	Poverty	38%
1982	John Carpenter's The _____ is released	Thing	38%
1816	James Monroe beats Rufus king, a member of the______ party in the presidential race	Federalist	34%
1931	Edison makes his _____ pattent	Last	34%
1894	the 1st _____ epidemic breaks out	Polio	34%
1815	The Library of Congress is reestablished after being _____	burnt	31%
1855	Walt Whitman's book Leaves of ______is published	Grass	31%
1822	2 men betray a slave revolt, resulting in 35 slaves being_____	Hung	31%
1829	Andre Jackson gets _______ as the 7th president	Inaugurated	31%
1842	Charles______ comes to America	Dickens	28%
1820	Joseph Smith has is first_____	Vision	28%
1986	New York Islander, Mike Bossy scores his ___th career goals	500	25%
1887	Lincoln was re______	Burried	25%
1988	_______-U.S trade agreement	Canada	25%
1949	Truman coins the term ____ Deal	Fair	25%
2000	Dan ______ wins his last game	Marino	25%
1791	The First US _______ Meeting	Cabinet	22%
1996	38th ______ 500	Daytona	22%
2018	Lawyers of Trump attempt to stop publication of Fire and ____	Fury	22%
1968	Martin Luther King Jr. is shot by	James Earl Ray	22%
1992	Robert Parish registers______ career blocks	2,000	19%
1908	The first _________ motion picture, Fantasmagorie is made	Animated	19%
1871	Brigham Young arrested for______	Bigamy	19%
1859	Joshua Abraham Norton proclaims himself ________ Norton	Emperor	19%
1975	Jesse James robs another previous answer in__________	Missouri	19%
1794	U.S establishes a permanent____	Navy	19%
1839	Henry Clay states "I had rather be______ than president"	Right	19%
1811	William Henry Harrison defeats Tecumseh's army in the Battle of________	Tippecanoe	19%
1836	Davy Crockett arrives in Texas to aid the ________	Revolution	16%
1993	Start II is ______	Signed	16%
1948	Truman raises _____ for the Marshall Plan	Taxes	16%
1831	William Lloyd Garrison publishes the first issue of an abolitionist newspaper called______	The Liberator	16%
1837	Michigan becomes the ____ U.S state	26th	13%
1882	The senate ratifies the first ______ Convention	Geneva	13%
1881	Previous is shot by Charles ________	Guiteau	13%
1952	African _____ is released in the U.S	Queen	13%
1851	The first black women's _____ convention	Rights	13%
1818	Andrew Jackson conquers Spanish Fort San Marcos in which became the First ________War	Seminole	13%
1876	The Kentucky Meat_______	Shower	13%
1869	Elizabeth Stanton becomes the first woman to ________ in congress	Testify	13%
1985	Ronald Reagan goes to _____, Germany sparking the controversy of the same name	Bitburg	9%
1782	John Adams secures recognition from the	Dutch	9%
1806	Yale Literary Government publishes its first_____	Issue	9%
1935	A man enters a hotel and mysteriously dies his name was stated to be Roland T. Owen. But his real name is Artemis_________	Ogletree	9%
1896	The first modern _____________	Olympics	9%
2014	First drummer for the band Ramones, _____ Ramone/Erdelyi dies of Bile Duct Cancer	Tommy	9%
1878	Congress overrides Rutherford Hayes' veto on the Bland-________Act	Allison	6%
1827	Brown v________	Maryland	6%
1873	the first U.S ______ card is issued	Postal	6%
1883	The first electric lighting ______	System	6%
1973	Michael Burke buys the ________	Yankees	6%
2012	LeBron James becomes the______ player to score 20,00 career points	Youngest	6%
1927	The ________ premiers in NYC	General	3%
1809	the first U.S______ was published by William Maclure	Geology	3%
1983	Reagan ends U.S arms in _________	Guatemala	3%
1938	A statue of Henry _________ is erected	Hudson	3%
1915	Wilson refuses to allow immigration of _______	Illiterates	3%
1916	Wilson states the U.S will abide by ______ warfare	Maritime	3%
1840	Alexander Wolcott and John Johnson open the Daguerreian______	Parlor	3%
1877	Battle of _____ Mountain	Wolf	3%
1858	Abolitionists create Crispus ______ Day	Attackus	0%
1955	The first presidential TV news__________	Confrence	0%
1889	The first non-segregated U.S ________	Hospital	0%
2016	LA ______ gas leak	Methane	0%

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