| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| President Kennedy is assassinated | 1960s | 87%
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| Hiroshima and Nagasaki are struck by atomic bombs | 1940s | 83%
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| WWI officially begins | 1910s | 81%
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| MLK delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech | 1960s | 81%
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| The Titanic sinks | 1910s | 79%
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| Apollo 11 lands on the Moon | 1960s | 79%
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| The Vietnam War ends | 1970s | 77%
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| Chernobyl experiences a nuclear disaster | 1980s | 77%
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| Germany invades Poland, starting WWII | 1930s | 76%
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| The Apartheid ends | 1990s | 71%
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his first term | 1930s | 70%
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| The Korean War "ends" | 1950s | 70%
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| The Berlin Wall falls | 1980s | 70%
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| Yugoslavia dissolves | 1990s | 66%
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| The October Revolution is sparked in Russia | 1910s | 64%
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| India gains independence from Britain | 1940s | 61%
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| The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 in outer space | 1950s | 61%
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| The Great Depression commences | 1920s | 60%
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| The Tiananmen Square Massacre commences | 1980s | 59%
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| The Wright Brothers take their first flight | 1900s | 57%
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| The United Nations is founded | 1940s | 57%
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| Charles Lindbergh flies solo from New York City to Paris | 1920s | 52%
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| Fidel Castro sparks an uprising in Cuba | 1950s | 52%
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| Black September kills 12 victims in the Munich Olympics | 1970s | 52%
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| The Midwest is struck by the Dust Bowl | 1930s | 50%
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| Construction of the Panama Canal begins | 1900s | 37%
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| A 7.8 earthquake hits San Francisco | 1900s | 37%
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| The European Union is established | 1990s | 31%
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| The 19th Amendment is ratified | 1920s | 27%
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| The first Earth Day is celebrated | 1970s | 23%
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