Stats: Ultimate 20th Century History Quiz

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The average score is 63 of 100

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1997	This woman is killed in a car crash in Paris	Princess Diana	93%
1999	This international currency is introduced	The Euro	93%
1990	This country, divided since 1945, is reunited	Germany	91%
1996	Dolly, this kind of animal, is cloned	Sheep	89%
1994	This man becomes President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	88%
1969	This man takes the first steps on the moon	Neil Armstrong	87%
1961	This structure, separating East and West, is constructed in Germany	Berlin Wall	85%
1986	This power plant is abandoned after a nuclear disaster	Chernobyl	85%
1991	This superpower ceases to exist	Soviet Union	85%
1948	This country is founded by Kim Il-sung. Today, it is ruled by his grandson	North Korea	84%
1981	This disease is first recognized	AIDS	83%
1939	WWII begins as Germany and the Soviet Union invade this country	Poland	83%
1985	This video game, released by Nintendo, sells over 40 million copies	Super Mario Bros	83%
1945	Japan surrenders after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and this other city	Nagasaki	82%
1970	This band breaks up. Some people blame Yoko	The Beatles	82%
1964	This American Civil Rights leader wins the Nobel Peace Prize	Martin Luther King Jr.	81%
1941	This U.S. naval base is attacked	Pearl Harbor	81%
1974	This President resigns following the Watergate scandal	Richard Nixon	81%
1925	This dictator comes to power in Italy	Benito Mussolini	80%
1938	This superhero makes his first appearance in Action Comics #1	Superman	80%
1912	This ship sinks in the Atlantic	Titanic	79%
1944	D-Day. Allied forces land in this French region	Normandy	78%
1947	This country breaks away from India	Pakistan	78%
1946	This type of swimsuit is sold for the first time. It is named for an atoll where nuclear bombs are tested	Bikini	77%
1962	After a tense standoff, the Soviet Union agrees to remove nuclear weapons from this island	Cuba	76%
1932	The person is elected U.S. President. He would be re-elected 3 times.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	76%
1922	Howard Carter discovers the tomb of this Egyptian king	Tutankhamun	76%
1963	John F. Kennedy is assassinated in this city	Dallas	75%
1957	This Soviet satellite is launched	Sputnik 1	75%
1982	Michael Jackson releases this album, the best-selling of all-time	Thriller	75%
1924	Power struggles ensue after this Soviet leader dies	Vladimir Lenin	75%
1983	Motorola releases the first version of this consumer product. It weighed nearly two pounds, and could only be used for 30 minutes before recharging	Cell Phone	74%
1931	This building becomes the tallest in the world	Empire State Building	74%
1914	This archduke is assassinated in Sarajevo	Franz Ferdinand	74%
1901	The first of these prizes are awarded	{Nobel} Prizes	74%
1965	This city leaves Malaysia to become an independent nation	Singapore	74%
1989	Over 1,000 peaceful protestors are massacred here	{Tiananmen} Square	74%
1958	This U.S. agency is founded by Eisenhower in response to the below	NASA	72%
1929	An American stock market crash triggers this global crisis	Great Depression	71%
1949	This organization to counteract the USSR is formed	NATO	71%
1905	This country breaks away from Sweden	Norway	71%
1993	This African country gains its independence from Ethiopia	Eritrea	70%
1930	This sporting event is first hosted in Uruguay	FIFA World Cup	70%
1942	The development of the atomic bomb begins, codenamed this	{Manhattan} Project	70%
1928	Alexander Fleming discovers this antibiotic	Penicillin	70%
1920	This period of U.S. history begins where alcohol is illegal	Prohibition	70%
1975	The Vietnam war ends when this city falls to North Vietnam	Saigon	70%
1903	These brothers fly the first airplane	{Wright} Brothers	70%
1987	This man speaks in Berlin, famously saying "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"	Ronald Reagan	68%
1921	After hundreds of years, this country gains independence from the UK	Irish Free State	65%
1992	Mass riots and looting in this city after police officers are found not guilty of beating Rodney King	Los Angeles	65%
1952	Jonas Salk develops a vaccine for this disease	Polio	65%
1959	This man flees from Tibet to India, where he still lives today	The Dalai Lama	65%
1998	This tech company is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin	Google	63%
1910	Japan annexes this peninsula	Korea	63%
1979	This disease, which had killed over 300 million, is eradicated	Smallpox	63%
1967	100,000 free spirits gather in San Francisco and other cities, known as this	Summer of {Love}	63%
1951	China annexes this nation	Tibet	62%
1988	Iraq launches chemical attacks against this minority group, killing thousands	Kurds	61%
1980	The country of Rhodesia changes its name to this	Zimbabwe	61%
1906	Over 80% of this U.S. city is destroyed by an earthquake	San Francisco	59%
1953	Watson and Crick discover the structure of this	DNA	58%
1937	This zeppelin crashes in New Jersey	Hindenburg	58%
1934	This communist leader starts his Long March	Mao Zedong	58%
1933	Overfarming in the American plains strips away topsoil. The resulting devastation is known as this	{Dust} Bowl	57%
1923	Over 100,000 people die as this city is struck by the Great Kanto Earthquake and tsunami	Tokyo	57%
1904	The United States begins work on this artificial waterway, previously abandoned by France	Panama Canal	56%
1984	Band Aid raises $150 million for famine relief in this country	Ethiopia	54%
1936	This country annexes Ethiopia	Italy	54%
1911	Hiram Bingham announces his discovery of this ancient Peruvian city	Machu Picchu	54%
1976	This supersonic aircraft makes its first flight	Concorde	53%
1908	Ford releases this car, one of the best-selling of all time	Model T	53%
1972	Eleven Olympians and one officer are killed in this city	Munich	53%
1916	This U.S. President is reelected, promising to stay out of the war	Woodrow Wilson	53%
1954	Roger Bannister becomes the first person to do this in less than 4 minutes	Run a Mile	51%
1956	Plans are announced to build this city in the interior of the South American continent	Brasilia	48%
1927	"The Jazz Singer" premieres in theaters. It is the first of this type of movie	Talkie	48%
1973	Several Arab countries launch a surprise attack on Israel on this holiest of Jewish holidays	Yom Kippur	48%
1940	The Luftwaffe fails to destroy the RAF in this battle for air superiority	Battle of {Britain}	46%
1978	918 people die after drinking this beverage at the Jonestown cult in Guyana	Flavor Aid	46%
1902	This South African war comes to an end	Second {Boer} War	46%
1915	The Ottomans start to round up and kill people from this ethnic group	Armenian	44%
1966	China begins this "revolution" to destroy traditional values	{Cultural} Revolution	44%
1919	This international organization is established in Paris	League of Nations	44%
1971	This dictator comes to power in Uganda	Idi Amin	42%
1960	This country's Mau Mau Uprising comes to an end	Kenya	42%
1909	Robert Peary claims to have reached this place	North Pole	42%
1968	Soviet tanks enter this city to crush a nascent democracy movement	Prague	42%
1913	This Russian dynasty celebrates 300 years on the throne amongst a great outpouring of popularity and well wishes	Romanov	41%
1950	Sukarno becomes first president of this country	Indonesia	39%
1977	This spacecraft is launched. It left the solar system in 2012	Voyager 1	39%
1943	Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet in this Middle Eastern city	Tehran	37%
1907	This painter paints "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"	Pablo Picasso	32%
1917	In this telegram, Germany proposes that Mexico invade the southern U.S.	{Zimmermann} Telegram	27%
1955	This substance, or non-substance, is first detected	Antimatter	25%
1935	This series of anti-Jewish laws is passed in Germany	{Nuremberg} Laws	24%
1900	L. Frank Baum publishes this novel	The Wizard of Oz	23%
1995	This Prime Minister is assassinated by an Israeli ultranationalist	Yitzhak Rabin	19%
1918	Germany makes this last ditch effort to win WWI before American troops arrive	{Spring} Offensive	12%
1926	This inventor launches the first liquid-fueled rocket	Robert Goddard	6%

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