| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| World War I begins | 1914 | 91%
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| The World Trade Center is attacked | 2001 | 84%
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| World War II begins | 1939 | 81%
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| Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 1945 | 81%
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| The Cold War begins | 1945 | 81%
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| The Great Depression begins | 1929 | 78%
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| The French Revolution begins | 1789 | 75%
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| The Balfour Declaration | 1917 | 75%
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| The Russian Revolution; Lenin takes power | 1917 | 75%
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| Nazis come to power in Germany | 1933 | 75%
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| The Soviet Union collapses, ending the Cold War | 1991 | 75%
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| The United States of America declare independence | 1776 | 72%
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| Reconquista ends | 1492 | 69%
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| Columbus sails the ocean blue | 1492 | 69%
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| Napoleon is defeated, the Congress of Vienna | 1815 | 66%
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| India gains independence and is partitioned | 1947 | 63%
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| The Iranian Revolution | 1979 | 63%
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| The Russo-Japanese War | 1905 | 50%
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| Chinese Communist Revolution | 1949 | 50%
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| Apartheid ends in South Africa | 1994 | 50%
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| The Berlin Conference | 1884 | 38%
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| The Boer War | 1899 | 38%
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| The Qing Dynasty is overthrown | 1911 | 38%
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| Constantinople falls to Turks | 1453 | 34%
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| Haiti gains independence | 1804 | 34%
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| Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses | 1517 | 31%
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| The Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 | 31%
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| The Communist Manifesto is published | 1848 | 31%
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| Jamestown is settled | 1607 | 28%
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| The Sepoy Rebellion | 1857 | 25%
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| Japan is opened by Commodore Perry | 1853 | 22%
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| Russian serfdom ends | 1861 | 22%
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| Fall of Rome | 476 | 22%
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| The First Crusade | 1095 | 19%
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| Hernan Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 1523 | 19%
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| The First Opium War | 1839 | 19%
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| Francisco Pizzaro conquers the Inca | 1532 | 16%
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| Ottoman Seige of Vienna | 1683 | 16%
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| Founding of Islam | 622 | 16%
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| Schism between Sunni and Shia Islam | 632 | 16%
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| Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope | 1498 | 13%
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| Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights | 1689 | 13%
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| Japan is unified under the Tokugawa Shogunate | 1600 | 9%
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| Industrial Revolution starts in Britain | 1750 | 9%
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| Schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity | 1054 | 6%
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| Zheng He’s voyages end | 1433 | 6%
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| Murder of the last Abbasid caliph | 1258 | 3%
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| Start of Marco Polo’s travels | 1271 | 3%
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| End of the Last Crusade | 1291 | 3%
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| End of Marco Polo’s travels | 1295 | 3%
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| Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca | 1324 | 3%
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| Battle of Tours | 732 | 3%
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