| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | The 18th Amendment begins the Prohibition era when it banned the consumption of this | Alcohol | 98%
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| 1917 | The United States joins this war upon learning of the Zimmerman Telegraph | World War I | 97%
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| 1903 | The Wright Brothers test this invention for the first time at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina | Airplane | 94%
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| 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt leads the effort on the construction of a canal in this country | Panama | 94%
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| 1918 | A soldier in Kansas falls ill, becoming the first confirmed case of this deadly pandemic | Spanish Flu | 89%
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| 1914 | This baseball player makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox | Babe Ruth | 86%
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| 1906 | 3,000 people are killed after an earthquake and subsequent fire destroy this city | San Francisco | 84%
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| 1910 | This paternal holiday is first observed in Spokane, Washington | {Father's} Day | 82%
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| 1905 | This city of vice is founded in the Mojave Desert | Las Vegas | 82%
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| 1913 | Henry Ford mass produces this automobile on an assembly line | Model T | 82%
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| 1902 | The Electric Theatre in Los Angeles becomes the first to show these | Movies | 82%
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| 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt becomes president following the assassination of this president | William McKinley | 82%
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| 1915 | 128 Americans die after this ship is sunk by a German U-boat | RMS {Lusitania} | 69%
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| 1909 | Robert Peary claims to be the first person to reach this place | North Pole | 68%
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| 1912 | This state becomes the last to be admitted in the contiguous U.S. | Arizona | 66%
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| 1908 | After defeating the Detroit Tigers, this team wouldn't win another World Series until 2016 | Chicago Cubs | 59%
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| 1911 | The Supreme Court declares this company to be a monopoly and has it broken up | Standard Oil | 56%
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| 1904 | This city hosts the third modern Olympic Games | St. Louis | 53%
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| 1900 | A hurricane kills between 6,000 and 12,000 in this Texas city | Galveston | 51%
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| 1916 | John J. Pershing hunts this Mexican revolutionary after he raided a New Mexico town | Pancho Villa | 45%
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