A to Z by Decade: 1910s - Statistics

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Letter	Clue	Answer	% Correct
A	Country which declared war on Serbia following the assassination of its royal heir, setting off a chain reaction which started WWI	Austria-Hungary	100%
I	What caused the Titanic to sink on April 15, 1912	Iceberg	86%
J	Country which took German colonies in China and the Pacific following WWI	Japan	86%
K	Title of German leader, stemming from “Caesar”	Kaiser	86%
L	British ocean liner torpedoed in 1915, part of which prompted the United States to enter the war	Lusitania	86%
S	Disease which caused an estimated 50 million deaths in the 1918 pandemic	Spanish Flu	86%
B	Youth organization incorporated in the United States in 1910	Boy Scouts of America	71%
X	How individuals who were illiterate signed on the 1910 census, coining the term “signed with a kiss”	X	71%
Y	Who Uncle Sam wanted for the US Army in his iconic poster	You	71%
M	Chemical weapon designed for trench warfare which suffocated soldiers and caused disfiguring chemical burns	Mustard Gas	57%
O	Popular cookie brand which was first sold in 1912	Oreo	57%
R	Event which caused the Russian Empire to leave WWI in 1917	Russian Revolution	57%
U	German submarines which sunk L	U-boats	57%
G	Generation born in the 1910s	Greatest Generation	43%
H	US overseas territory which saw its first Olympic gold medalist in the 1912 Olympics	Hawaii	43%
P	What “shell shock” is known as today	Post Traumatic Stress Disorder	43%
V	Term for sultry, manipulative, femme fatales of the silent film era who lured men into dangerous situations with their charm and beauty, stemming from “vampire”	Vamp	43%
W	Government-issued debt securities designed to fund the military, as seen with the United States and Canada during World War I	War Bonds	43%
Z	Interlocking mechanism on clothing patented in 1913	Zipper	43%
C	Military alliance A was a part of, alongside Germany, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and, for a time, Italy	Central Powers	29%
D	Signed into law in the US by Woodrow Wilson on March 19, 1918, designed to conserve energy by extending the day into the evening	Daylight Savings Time	29%
E	The Dover Barrage was constructed to protect this body of water during WWI, blocking it off from the North Sea	English Channel	29%
Q	One of these in 1910 would be about $8.76 USD in today’s money	Quarter	29%
F	German anti-tank weapon used in WWI	Flamethrower	14%
N	Organization formed by W.E.B. DuBois in 1909, with its official journal, The Crisis, first released the following year	NAACP	14%
T	Site of a 1911 fire which killed 146 people, most of whom were women and girls	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory	0%

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