| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A) This Austrian becomes chancellorof Germany and later Nazi dictator | 1933 | Adolf Hitler | 100%
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| A) This physicist publishes his theoryof relativity | 1905 | Albert Einstein | 100%
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| F) This archduke is assassinated in Sarajevo | 1914 | Franz Ferdinand | 89%
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| H) The first atomic bomb is dropped on this Japanese city | Aug 1945 | Hiroshima | 89%
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| J) Rastafarianism originates in this Caribbean country | 1930s | Jamaica | 89%
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| J) This president is assassinated in a Dallas motorcade | 1963 | John F Kennedy | 89%
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| P) Era of the US ban on production and sale of alcohol | 1920s | Prohibition | 89%
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| Q) This monarch is crowned and begins a 70 year reign | 1952 | Queen Elizabeth | 89%
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| T) The famous ocean liner makes it fatal voyage from the UKbefore striking an iceberg | 1912 | Titanic | 89%
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| V) This treaty formally ended WW1 and established the League of Nations | 1919 | Versailles | 89%
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| W) These siblings recorded the first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, NC | 1903 | Wright | 89%
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| E) Iconic skyscraper completed in New York City | 1931 | Empire State Building | 86%
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| M) This Chinese ruler enacts the Great Leap Forward, resultingin thousands of deaths | 1958 | Mao Zedong | 86%
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| O) This once massive empire ceases to exist | 1922 | Ottoman | 86%
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| X) This group of mutant heroes were first published by Marvel comics | 1963 | X Men | 86%
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| D) The Allied invasion of Normandy begins | 1944 | D Day | 83%
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| K) Lead singer of Nirvana is found dead from a self inflicted gunshot | 1994 | Kurt Cobain | 83%
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| L) This famous Parisian museum was robbed of the Mona Lisain a major theft | 1911 | Louvre | 83%
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| M) This German automaker introduces its first car | 1900 | Mercedes | 83%
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| P) Construction on this vital waterway begins | 1904 | Panama Canal | 83%
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| R) Mass genocide occurs in this African country between the Hutu and Tutsi | 1994 | Rwanda | 83%
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| F) This president serves 4 terms | 1930-1944 | Franklin Roosevelt | 80%
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| I) This country experiences political revolution to overthrowthe Pahlavi dynasty | 1979 | Iran | 80%
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| N) This German city held the trials of Nazi war criminals | 1945-1946 | Nuremberg | 80%
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| R) This country undergoes a revolution of change to adopt socialism | 1917 | Russia | 80%
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| S) A massive 7.9 earthquake and fire devastates this city | 1904 | San Francisco | 80%
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| G) French physicist Paul Villard discovers this type ofradio wave while studying uranium decay | 1900 | Gamma | 77%
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| O) This plains state is admitted as the 46th | 1907 | Oklahoma | 77%
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| Q) This Chinese dynasty comes to an end | 1912 | Qing | 77%
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| B) Russian political party aligned with socialismcomes to power after conflict | 1917-23 | Bolshevik | 74%
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| L) This city was bombarded with air raids during the Nazi Blitz | 1940-41 | London | 71%
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| S) A massive pandemic of this virus begins | 1918 | Spanish Flu | 71%
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| U) The RMS Lusitania is sunk by this German submarine | 1915 | U Boat | 69%
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| Z) Germany recorded the first flight of these giant, blimp like airships over Lake Constance | 1900 | Zeppelin | 69%
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| X) Thousands of terracotta warriors of Emperor Shi Huangdi were unearthed near this Chinese city | 1974 | Xian | 66%
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| Y) Allied members met in this Crimean port city after WW2 to discuss the reorganization of Germany | 1945 | Yalta | 66%
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| B) Decisive conflict between Allied forces and Nazis in the Ardennes area of Belgium | 1944-1945 | Battle of the Bulge | 63%
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| D) Severe wind storms that devastated agriculturein the Midwest during the Great Depression | 1930s | Dust Bowl | 60%
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| E) First celebrated in the US to promote environmentalconservation and importance | 1970 | Earth Day | 60%
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| V) This city served as capital of unoccupied France during WW2 | 1940-44 | Vichy | 60%
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| Y) This famous ballpark opened in the Bronx, home to some of baseballs'greatest players | 1923 | Yankee Stadium | 60%
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| C) This team wins the World Series, the last timeuntil 2016 | 1907, 1908 | Chicago Cubs | 57%
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| G) A category 5 hurricane smashes this coastal Texascity | Sept 1900 | Galveston | 57%
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| K) The Soviet Union recovered this annexed area fromGermany after the War | 1946 | Kaliningrad | 57%
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| N) President Roosevelt enacts this plan of economic reformduring the Great Depression | 1933-1939 | New Deal | 54%
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| W) Re-elected in 1900 but assassinated the following September | 1901 | William McKinley | 49%
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| C) This automaker introduced its first car, the Six | 1924 | Chrysler | 43%
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| Z) Secret telegram calling for an alliance of Mexico and Germany against the US during WW1 | 1917 | Zimmerman | 37%
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| T) A massive fire broke out at this clothing factory in New York,resulting in 146 casualties | 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist | 14%
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| H) This act, which federally regulated railroads, is passed | 1906 | Hepburn | 6%
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| U) This Act lowered tariffs and established federal income tax | 1913 | Underwood | 3%
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| I) This luxury liner sinks in the Atlantic | 1906 | Iris | 0%
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