| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Terrorist Attacks known as "9/11" | 2001 AD | 89%
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| Attack of Pearl Harbor | 1941 AD | 88%
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| First moon landing | 1969 AD | 88%
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| Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, triggering the start of World War I | 1914 AD | 86%
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| Nazi invasion of Poland triggers the begining of World War 2 | 1939 AD | 86%
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| Treaty of Versailles signed | 1919 AD | 81%
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| Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr | 1968 AD | 81%
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| German unconditional surrender to Allied forces | 1945 AD | 80%
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| Battle of Hastings | 1066 AD | 77%
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| Christopher Columbus reaches the New World | 1492 AD | 77%
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| Battle of Waterloo | 1815 AD | 75%
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| End of American Civil War | 1865 AD | 75%
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| Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space | 1961 AD | 75%
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| Jesus is born | 0AD | 73%
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| Start of American civil War | 1861 AD | 73%
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| Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon | 1975 AD | 73%
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| The Wright Brothers perform the first heavier-than-air powered flight | 1903 AD | 72%
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| Storming of the Bastille | 1789 AD | 70%
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| Launch of Sputnik 1 | 1957 AD | 70%
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| American colonies declare independance | 1776 AD | 69%
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| The Great Fire of London | 1666 AD | 67%
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| Former King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette are guillotined | 1793 AD | 66%
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| Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity | 1916 AD | 64%
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| Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States | 1801 AD | 63%
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| Picasso paints Guernica | 1937 AD | 63%
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| End of the Mesoamerican (Mayan) Long Count calendar | 2012 AD | 63%
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| The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England | 1215 AD | 61%
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| Amundsen reaches the South pole | 1911 AD | 59%
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| Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba | 1814 AD | 58%
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| The Battle of Montenotte, Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an Army commander | 1796 AD | 52%
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| World population reaches 1 billion | 1804 AD | 52%
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| Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile | 1886 AD | 52%
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| Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time | 1802 AD | 50%
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| Charlegmagne becomes first Holy Roman Emperor | 800AD | 50%
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| The hundred years war ends | 1453 AD | 47%
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| Battle of Agincourt | 1415 AD | 41%
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| James the 1st of Scotland becomes James the 6th of England | 1603 AD | 41%
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| Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species | 1859 AD | 41%
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| Alfred Nobel invents dynamite | 1867 AD | 41%
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| Dmitri Mendeleev creates the periodic table | 1869 AD | 41%
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| The Spanish Armada leave A Coruña | 1588 AD | 39%
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| Battle of Balaclava | 1854 AD | 39%
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| The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church | 1531 AD | 34%
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| The United Kingdom is formed | 1707 AD | 34%
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| Discovery of Antarctica | 1820 AD | 34%
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| The Hundred year war begins | 1337 AD | 33%
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| James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia | 1769 AD | 33%
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| Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three years later | 1503 AD | 31%
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| Genghis Khan becomes sole ruler of Mongolia | 1206 AD | 30%
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| Galileo Galilei is born | 1564 AD | 30%
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| First Crusade | 1096 AD | 28%
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| The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times | 1347 AD | 28%
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| Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David | 1501 AD | 28%
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| King Mursilis of the Hittites sacks Babylon. Begin of Babylonian "dark ages." | 1595 BC | 27%
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| Augustus Becomes Emperor of Rome | 27 BC | 27%
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| Richard I ascends the throne of England | 1189 AD | 25%
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| The Battle of Crecy- The English use of the longbow leads to a decisive victory | 1346 AD | 23%
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| Battle of Bosworth Field | 1485 AD | 23%
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| Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Julliet | 1597 AD | 23%
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| The first publication of the King James Bible | 1611 AD | 23%
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| Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii | 79 BC | 23%
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| Suleiman the magnificent dies | 1566 AD | 22%
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| First Javanese War of Succession | 1704 AD | 22%
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| Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia | 1740 AD | 19%
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| Battle of Marathon | 490 BC | 19%
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| René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy. | 1641 AD | 17%
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| Battle of Bannock burn | 1314 AD | 16%
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| Visigoths sack Rome for the first time since 390 BC | 410 AD | 16%
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| Death of Tutankhamun | 1341 BC | 14%
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| The Battle of Stirling Bridge | 1297 AD | 13%
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| Rome becomes a Republic | 509 BC | 13%
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| Muhammed is born | 570 AD | 13%
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| The Aztecs found their capital city of Tenochtitlan | 1325 AD | 11%
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| Leif Eriksson lands in the Americas | 1001 AD | 9%
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| The Knights Templar are founded | 1118 AD | 9%
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| The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe. | 1381 AD | 9%
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| Hannibal crosses the Alps | 218 BC | 9%
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| The mammoth goes extinct | 2500 BC | 9%
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| Canute the Great becomes King of England | 1016 AD | 8%
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| Indian campaign of Alexander the Great | 326BC | 8%
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| Alfred the Great becomes King of a united England | 871 AD | 8%
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| The Viking Rollo and his tribe settle in Normandy | 911 AD | 8%
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| Kenneth McAlpin becomes king of the Picts and Scots | 843 AD | 6%
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| Homer writes The Iliad and The Odyssey | 890 BC | 6%
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| The Byzantines under Basil II conquer Bulgaria | 1018 AD | 5%
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| Birth of Siddhartha Gautama | 563 BC | 5%
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| Battle of Heavenfield | 633AD | 5%
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| Carthage founded | 813 BC | 5%
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| Eric the Red, exiled from Iceland, begins Scandinavian colonization of Greenland | 985 AD | 5%
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| Battle of Kadesh | 1274 BC | 3%
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| Execution of Joan of Arc | 1431 AD | 3%
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| The Roman Empire splits into East and West | 284 AD | 3%
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| Romulus Augustus forced to abdicate by Odoacer | 476 AD | 3%
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| Gregory the Great becomes Pope | 590AD | 3%
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| Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade | 1204 AD | 2%
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| Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned by Elizabeth I. | 1567 AD | 2%
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| Begining of the Old Kingdom in Egypt | 2700 BC | 2%
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| Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the king of Assyria | 745 BC | 2%
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| Battle of Lechfeld. Otto the Great, son of Henry the Fowler, defeats the Magyars | 955 AD | 2%
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| Start of the Trojan War | 1260 BC | 0%
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| First Arab siege of Constantinople | 674AD | 0%
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