| Letter | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| D | Main character of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Dorothy | 100%
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| M | Scientist who first isolated radium in 1902 alongside her husband, Pierre | Marie Curie | 100%
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| O | Major resource which was found in Texas, sparking an economic boom | Oil field | 100%
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| B | Empire which spanned the globe, containing roughly a quarter of the world’s population | British Empire | 90%
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| G | The largest immigrant group in the US according to the 1900 censes | Germans | 90%
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| H | Natural disaster which hit Galveston, Texas in 1900, which killed roughly 8,000 people | Hurricane | 90%
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| L | City founded in 1905 with land from the deserts of Nevada | Las Vegas | 90%
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| S | Site of a 1906 earthquake which killed 3,000 people | San Francisco | 90%
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| V | Era which ended with the 1901 death of the monarch for which it was named | Victorian Era | 90%
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| X | William Conrad Röntgen received one of the first ever Nobel Prizes for his discovery of these | X-ray | 90%
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| Z | Rigid airship out of Germany invented in 1900 | Zeppelin | 90%
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| F | First affordable, mass-produced car introduced in 1908 | Ford Model T | 80%
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| N | Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first two men to set foot here in 1909 | North Pole | 80%
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| Q | Dynasty which ruled China throughout the 1900s until its 1912 collapse | Qing Dynasty | 80%
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| Y | Territory which turned from a Gold Rush frontier to a rapidly industrializing mining hub | Yukon | 80%
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| E | According to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, this equals mass times the squared speed of light, or mc^2 | Energy | 70%
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| I | Practice which drove empires across Europe to take foreign colonies | Imperialism | 70%
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| W | US president who was assassinated in 1901 while visiting Buffalo, New York | William McKinley | 70%
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| C | Country which gained independence from Spain on May 20, 1902 | Cuba | 60%
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| T | Invented after Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub tied to a tree | Teddy Bear | 50%
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| K | Site where the Wright Brothers tested their first flight in 1903 | Kill Devil Hills | 40%
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| R | War which solidified Japan as a major world power | Russo-Japanese War | 30%
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| J | Date which the Philippine-American War was declared over by Theodore Roosevelt | July 4th | 20%
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| U | Author of The Jungle, which prompted the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Administration in the US | Upton Sinclair | 20%
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| A | Hallmark of rapid production during the Industrial Revolution | Assembly line | 10%
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| P | Era in the US spearheaded by Theodore Roosevelt, defined by environmental conservation and sweeping political reform | Progressive Era | 0%
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