| Event | Year | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The United Nations is founded right after World War II | 1945 | 89%
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| The Apollo 11 mission lands the first humans on the Moon | 1969 | 85%
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| The Wright brothers achieve the first sustained, powered flight | 1903 | 81%
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| The Titanic sinks during its maiden voyage | 1912 | 81%
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| The Berlin Wall falls, symbolizing the end of the Cold War | 1989 | 81%
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| The dog Laika becomes the first living creature to orbit the Earth aboard Sputnik II | 1957 | 78%
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| A young Liverpool band officially forms under the name The Beatles | 1960 | 78%
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| The American Declaration of Independence is signed in Philadelphia | 1776 | 74%
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| The first FIFA World Cup tournament is held, hosted and won by Uruguay | 1930 | 67%
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| Christopher Columbus first lands in the Americas | 1492 | 59%
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| The world’s first commercial nuclear power plant begins operation in the Soviet Union | 1954 | 59%
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| The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille | 1789 | 48%
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| Napoleon suffers his final defeat at the hands of British-led forces at Waterloo | 1815 | 48%
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| Alan Turing designs the concept of the automatic computing machine, laying the foundation for modern computers | 1936 | 44%
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| The first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is mined (“the genesis block”) | 2009 | 37%
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| The printing press is invented by Johannes Gutenberg | 1450 | 22%
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| The Black Death reaches Europe, causing massive population loss | 1347 | 15%
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| The world’s first modern public zoo opens to visitors in London | 1828 | 15%
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| Dutch merchant ships of the VOC leave on their very first expedition to Asia | 1595 | 7%
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