Every Year In US History - Statistics

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1776	Document declaring independence from Britain	Declaration of Independence	93%
1778	Country that joins the Revolutionary War as a U.S. ally	France	93%
1789	First U.S. President after a unanimous election	George Washington	93%
1827	First commercial railroad in America (property in Monopoly)	Baltimore and Ohio	91%
1959	Admitted as the 50th and last state	Hawaii	90%
1797	Vice President who becomes the 2nd President of the U.S.	John Adams	90%
2009	First African American President of the United States	Barack Obama	89%
2024	Presidential candidate shot in an assassination attempt	Donald Trump	89%
1803	Territory purchased from France by Thomas Jefferson	Louisiana	89%
1823	Future state Stephen F. Austin settles in with 300 families	Texas	89%
1867	Territory purchased from Russia	Alaska	88%
1976	Company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak	Apple	88%
2004	Social network site launched by Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	88%
2003	Country the U.S. invades as part of a War on Terror	Iraq	88%
2023	Country the U.S. supports following fighting in Gaza	Israel	88%
1956	What actress Norma Jean Mortenson changes her name to	Marilyn Monroe	88%
1968	Civil rights leader shot dead in Memphis	Martin Luther King Jr.	88%
2001	Date that terrorists hijack and crashed 4 planes	September 11	88%
1785	Adopted by Congress as nation’s official currency	United States Dollar	88%
1965	War that President Lyndon B. Johnson sends troops to fight in	Vietnam War	88%
1981	Disease first recognized from gay men	AIDS	87%
1792	Honored with a holiday 300 years after his transatlantic voyage	Christopher Columbus	87%
2020	Pandemic that infects millions worldwide	COVID-19	87%
1963	City where President John F. Kennedy is assassinated	Dallas	87%
2000	Winner of the closest Presidential election in U.S. history	George W. Bush	87%
1908	Businessman who launches the Model T automobile	Henry Ford	87%
1945	First city the U.S. drops an atomic bomb on	Hiroshima	87%
2005	Hurricane that devastates New Orleans	Hurricane Katrina	87%
1975	Company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen	Microsoft	87%
2011	Al-Qaeda leader killed by U.S. forces	Osama bin Laden	87%
1941	Hawaii naval base attacked by Japan	Pearl Harbor	87%
1974	Scandal that causes President Richard Nixon to resign	{Watergate} Scandal	87%
2018	Country that enters a trade war with the U.S.	China	86%
1828	Political party that's founded, active to this day	Democratic Party	86%
2025	Head of the Department of Government Efficiency	Elon Musk	86%
2007	Its first generation is announced by Steve Jobs	iPhone	86%
2012	Substance that Washington is the first state to legalize	Marijuana	86%
1944	Operation in which the Allies invade Normandy	D-Day	85%
1809	4th President of the United States	James Madison	85%
1984	City that hosts the Summer Olympics	Los Angeles	85%
1920	Era in which alcohol is banned that begins	Prohibition	85%
1977	George Lucas film that becomes the highest-grossing in the world	Star Wars	85%
1885	Monument that arrives to New York Harbor	Statue of Liberty	85%
1966	British band that plays their last concert at Candlestick Park	The Beatles	85%
1912	Ship that sinks en route to New York City	Titanic	85%
1903	Brothers who make their first flight at Kitty Hawk	Wright brothers	85%
1804	Former Treasurer killed in a duel with Aaron Burr	Alexander Hamilton	84%
1898	Island where the USS Maine is sunk, leading to war with Spain	Cuba	84%
1955	Theme park that opens in Anaheim	Disneyland	84%
1906	Type of disaster that hits San Francisco	Earthquake	84%
1779	Country that declares war on Britain in support of the U.S.	Spain	84%
1790	Occurs every decade, first one measures the population to be 3,929,214	United States Census	84%
1933	Physicist who immigrates as a refugee from Nazi Germany	Albert Einstein	83%
1897	City that hosts its first marathon race	Boston	83%
1979	Country that takes 66 Americans hostage	Iran	83%
1964	Defeats Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight boxing champion	Muhammad Ali	83%
1931	Chicago gangster arrested for tax evasion	Al Capone	82%
1874	Animal chosen to represent the Republican Party	Elephant	82%
1957	Entertainer who moves to his Graceland estate	Elvis Presley	82%
1929	Event that begins following the crashing of the New York Stock Exchange	Great Depression	82%
1923	California district that erects its famous sign	Hollywood	82%
1950	Ideologically motivated war the U.S. gets involved in	Korean War	82%
1835	Fully paid off for the only time in U.S. history	National debt	82%
1794	City whose French Quarter is hit by a fire	New Orleans	82%
1994	NFL star who flees in a Ford Bronco after murdering his ex-wife	O.J. Simpson	82%
1938	Comic book icon who makes their first appearance	Superman	82%
1795	University that opens to students in Chapel Hill	University of North Carolina	82%
1818	General and future President who attacks Seminoles in Florida	Andrew Jackson	81%
1865	Assassin who shoots Lincoln	John Wilkes Booth	81%
1873	Brand of blue jeans that begins production	Levi's	81%
1987	Leader who President Reagan calls to "tear down this wall"	Mikhail Gorbachev	81%
2021	Building stormed by protesters following election results	United States Capitol	81%
1872	World's first national park	Yellowstone	81%
1891	Sport invented by Dr. Naismith at Springfield College	Basketball	80%
1948	City that the U.S. airlifts supplies into after a Soviet blockade	Berlin	80%
1886	Drink invented by Dr. Pemberton	Coca-Cola	80%
1822	Territory created through Adams-Onis Treaty	Florida	80%
1936	Structure on the Colorado River that finishes construction	Hoover Dam	80%
1940	Restaurant chain founded in San Bernardino	McDonald's	80%
1851	Novel published by Herman Melville about a whale	Moby Dick	80%
1901	Becomes President of the U.S. after McKinley is killed	Theodore Roosevelt	80%
1982	Best selling album of all time released by Michael Jackson	Thriller	80%
1866	Civil War veteran appointed as nation's first five-star general	Ulysses S. Grant	80%
1961	Failed military invasion into Cuba	Bay of Pigs Invasion	79%
1913	Region that reaches 134 °F, the highest temperature in world history	Death Valley	79%
1943	Appointed director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory	J. Robert Oppenheimer	79%
1805	Explorers who reach the Pacific after charting the new territory	{Lewis} and {Clark}	79%
1928	Character who first appears in Steamboat Willie	Mickey Mouse	79%
1958	Federal agency that gets established and launches Pioneer 1	NASA	79%
1949	Military alliance formed in response to the Soviet threat	NATO	79%
2013	Service that releases its first original production, House of Cards	Netflix	79%
1914	Completion of U.S.-built waterway connecting two oceans	Panama Canal	79%
1917	President who declares war on Germany	Woodrow Wilson	79%
1836	Mission in San Antonio besieged by the Mexican Army	Alamo	78%
1970	Country the U.S. invades to hunt for the Viet Cong	Cambodia	78%
1905	City founded in the desert	Las Vegas	78%
1821	African country founded as a conoly for freed American slaves	Liberia	78%
1967	Championship game of the NFL that is first played	Super Bowl	78%
1969	Mission that sends U.S. astronauts to the moon	Apollo 11	77%
1986	Space shuttle that disintegrates 73 seconds into flight	Challenger	77%
1991	War in which the U.S. attempts to liberate Kuwait	Gulf War	77%
1860	First state to secede from the Union	South Carolina	77%
1814	National anthem written by Francis Scott Key during British bombardment	The Star-Spangled Banner	77%
1791	The 14th state admitted to the Union	Vermont	77%
1892	New York Harbor immigration station that opens	Ellis Island	76%
1829	Substance that caused a rush to Georgia	Gold	76%
1937	Airship that bursts into flames over New Jersey	Hindenburg	76%
1870	Businessman who founds the Standard Oil Company	John D. Rockefeller	76%
1782	City where Bank of North America opens as the first central bank	Philadelphia	76%
1932	Athlete who calls his shot in the World Series	Babe Ruth	75%
1883	Bridge connecting NYC boroughs that opens	Brooklyn Bridge	75%
1887	Tradition to predict winter first observed in Punxsutawney	Groundhog Day	75%
1952	Detonated for the first time in the Pacific Ocean	{Hydrogen} Bomb	75%
1998	Retires from the Chicago Bulls after his 6th championsip	Michael Jordan	75%
1918	Pandemic beginning in Kansas, the deadliest in history	Spanish flu	75%
2017	Becomes the wealthiest person in the world	Jeff Bezos	74%
1884	Publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	74%
2014	Building that opens in NYC, the tallest in the U.S.	One World Trade Center	74%
1926	Highway running from Chicago to Santa Monica established	Route 66	74%
1808	Their importation is banned, ending a 200 year trade	Slaves	74%
1878	Inventor who patents the phonograph	Thomas Edison	74%
1833	Political party formed to oppose Andrew Jackson	Whig Party	74%
1830	Book published by Joseph Smith sacred to Latter-day Saints	Book of Mormon	73%
2002	Department formed to protect public security against terrorism	Department of {Homeland} {Security}	73%
1934	Disaster where dust storms and droughts ravage the Great Plains	Dust Bowl	73%
1893	President who begins his 2nd nonconsecutive term	Grover Cleveland	73%
1999	Colorado school where 13 are killed in a shooting	Columbine	72%
1849	Abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor who escapes slavery	Harriet Tubman	72%
1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about lovers in New York	The Great Gatsby	72%
1960	Harper Lee's novel about racial injustice in the South	To Kill a Mockingbird	72%
1841	President who takes office then shortly dies	William Henry Harrison	72%
2008	Bubble that bursts to cause a major recession	Housing	71%
1935	Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan that establishes Social Security	New Deal	71%
1788	State with the first permanent settlement beyond the original colonies	Ohio	71%
2022	Supreme Court case protecting the right to abortion that gets overturned	Roe v. Wade	71%
1888	D.C. landmark opened to the public	Washington Monument	71%
1832	University where Skull and Bones secret society is founded	Yale	71%
1894	Confectionery company founded in Pennsylvania	Hershey	70%
1990	Space telescope launched into low-earth orbit	Hubble	70%
1946	Term for the political divide in Europe coined by Churchill in Missouri	Iron Curtain	70%
1881	President who is shot at a train station	James Garfield	70%
1919	Amendment granting women the right to vote	{Nineteenth} Amendment	70%
1995	City where Timothy McVeigh bombs a federal building	Oklahoma City	70%
1800	Library founded in Washington, D.C	Library of Congress	69%
1924	Company that holds its first Thanksgiving Day Parade	Macy's	69%
1855	State that "bleeds" over slavery conflict	Kansas	68%
1837	8th President of the United States	Martin Van Buren	68%
1992	Boxer sentenced to prison for sexual assault	Mike Tyson	68%
1868	City where The University of California is founded	Oakland	68%
1973	Chicago skyscraper that becomes the tallest in the world	Sears Tower	68%
1947	African American who breaks the color barrier in the MLB	Jackie Robinson	67%
1997	Killed in a drive-by shooting just 6 months after Tupac	The Notorious B.I.G	67%
1817	River connected to to Great Lakes through the Erie Canal	Hudson River	66%
1854	Country forced to open trade by Commodore Perry	Japan	66%
1806	Publishes the first American English dictionary	Noah Webster	66%
1838	Communication system demonstrated by Samuel Morse	Telegraph	66%
1877	D.C.'s daily newspaper that begins publication	The Washington Post	66%
1852	Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that influences views on slavery	Uncle Tom's Cabin	66%
1927	Aviator who makes the first transatlantic flight	Charles Lindbergh	65%
1962	13-day standoff with the Soviet Union over possible nuclear war	Cuban Missile Crisis	65%
1863	Executive order by Lincoln freeing slaves in the Confederacy	Emancipation Proclamation	65%
1909	City whose historic motor speedway is opened	Indianapolis	65%
1864	Georgia city Sherman reaches on his March to the Sea	Savannah	65%
1996	Terrorist bomber arrested in his Montana cabin	Ted Kaczynski	65%
1875	Inventor who makes the first sound transmission	Alexander Graham Bell	64%
2019	Movie that becomes the new highest grossing in the world	Avengers: Endgame	64%
1793	Inventor who created the cotton gin	Eli Whitney	64%
1899	Declares independence after being ceded to the U.S. from Spain	Philippines	64%
1783	Treaty that officially ends the Revolutionary War	Treaty of {Paris}	64%
1780	General who defects to the British	Benedict Arnold	63%
1839	Native American group forcibly removed from their homeland	Cherokee	63%
1820	State admitted alongside Maine in a compromise	Missouri	63%
1989	Sitcom about a fictional version of its creator that premieres	Seinfeld	63%
1807	Form of transportation launched by Fulton on the Hudson River	Steamboat	63%
1904	City that hosts the Summer Olympics	St. Louis	63%
1921	City whose cemetery unveils the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier	Arlington	62%
1812	City U.S. army surrenders in without a fight after failed invasion of Canada	Detroit	62%
1879	First iteration of New York City's historic arena that opens	Madison Square Garden	62%
1845	Term coined by O’Sullivan to justify westward expansion	Manifest Destiny	62%
1942	Atoll where the U.S. defeats Japan's navy	Midway Atoll	62%
1985	Country that receives aid through the Live Aid concert	Ethiopia	61%
1861	Fort captured by the confederacy to start the Civil War	Fort {Sumter}	61%
1813	Lake of a major naval battle where six British ships are captured	Lake Erie	61%
2015	Right guaranteed in a Supreme Court case	Same-sex marriage	61%
1844	Successor to Joseph Smith as president of the Latter-day Saints	Brigham Young	59%
1802	City in New York where the Military Academy is founded	West Point	59%
2016	Team that breaks their 108-year championship drought	Chicago Cubs	58%
1911	Boston ballpark that begins construction	Fenway Park	58%
1799	Virginia estate where George Washington dies	Mount Vernon	58%
1889	New York City based business newspaper first published	The Wall Street Journal	58%
1880	Population milestone the U.S. passes	50,000,000	57%
1910	Youth organization founded by William D. Boyce	Boy Scouts of America	57%
1871	What Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicks over to cause the Great Chicago Fire	Lantern	57%
1993	City where David Koresh's Branch Davidians get sieged	Waco	57%
1988	Hip-hop group that releases Straight Outta Compton	N.W.A	56%
1781	Last major battle of the Revolutionary War	Siege of {Yorktown}	56%
1846	Monument that gets cracked on George Washington's birthday	Liberty Bell	55%
1787	Written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to support a new Constitution	The Federalist Papers	55%
1907	Neighborhood that celebrates its first New Year's ball drop	Times Square	55%
1816	Future city where Fort Dearborn is reestablished	Chicago	54%
1882	Group of people "excluded" from immigration	Chinese	54%
1930	New York skyscraper that's the tallest in the world upon completion	Chrysler Building	54%
1869	Outlaw who commits his first bank robbery	Jesse James	54%
1900	Texas city wrecked by a hurricane with a death toll of 6,000+	Galveston	53%
1978	Serial killer who murdered dozens of young women is caught	Ted Bundy	53%
1843	Publisher of "The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allen Poe	51%
1951	Couple convicted as Soviet spies and sentenced to death	Julius and Ethel Rosenburg	51%
1784	Native American League that signs a treaty ceding land to the U.S.	Iroquois	50%
1972	First American chess champion after the "match of the century"	Bobby Fischer	49%
1980	Nickname for U.S. defeat of Soviets in hockey during the Winter Olympics	Miracle On Ice	49%
1842	Line of latitude that the U.S.-Canada border is set at	{49th} Parallel	48%
1876	Battle where Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull are victorious	Battle of {Little} {Bighorn}	48%
1971	Company that releases the first microprocessor chip	Intel	48%
1983	Show whose final episode becomes the most watched TV broadcast	MAS*H	47%
1954	Supreme Court case ruling segregated schools unconstitutional	Brown v. Board of Education	46%
1858	Senator who debates Lincoln in Illinois	Stephen Douglas	46%
1862	Bloodiest day in U.S. history at this battle	Battle of {Antietam}	45%
1915	Controversial film about the Ku Klux Klan premieres	The Birth of a Nation	45%
1857	Slave whose Supreme Court "decision" rules against constitutional rights for African Americans	Dred Scott	44%
1825	Era associated with Monroe's presidency that ends	Era of {Good} {Feelings}	44%
1916	Mexican revolutionary who leads a raid into New Mexico	Pancho Villa	42%
1859	Federal arsenal raided by John Brown in slave revolt	Harper's Ferry	41%
1801	Appointed as Chief Justice, the longest-serving in U.S. history	John Marshall	38%
1922	Scandal where Secretary Fall leases oil reserves to private companies	{Teapot} {Dome} Scandal	38%
1815	Treaty signed in Belgium ending the War of 1812	Treaty of {Ghent}	38%
1777	Turning point of the Revolutionary War	Battles of {Saratoga}	37%
1786	Rebellion in Massachusetts over debt and taxation led by a former soldier	{Shay}'s Rebellion	35%
1819	Caused by the collapse of the Second Bank of the U.S.	{Panic} of 1819	34%
1895	City in North Carolina where the Biltmore Estate is opened	Asheville	33%
1902	Oregon national park that's established	Crater Lake	31%
1834	Kentucky senator known as the "Great Compromisor" who names and helps found above party	Henry Clay	31%
1840	Landmass circumnavigated and claimed for the U.S. by Charles Wilkes	Antarctica	30%
1853	Last major land purchase in the contiguous U.S. in southern Arizona	Gadsden Purchase	30%
1796	Famous letter written by Washington as his term ends	Farewell Address	29%
1953	CIA experiments to brainwash patients with drugs and torture	MKUltra	27%
1896	Supreme Court decision introducing "separate but equal"	Plessy v. Ferguson	27%
2010	Oil rig that explodes in the Gulf of Mexico	Deepwater Horizon	26%
1850	Act in the Compromise of 1850 mandating the return of slaves	{Fugitive} {Slave} Act	26%
1831	Slave who leads a violent revolt in Virginia	Nat Turner	26%
1798	Scandal involving censored names of French diplomats	{XYZ} Affair	26%
1856	Colloqiual name of the American Party	Know Nothings	25%
1848	City in New York where the first women’s rights convention occurs	Seneca Falls	25%
1847	Mexican port city siezed by the U.S. after an amphibious assault	Veracruz	24%
1939	Protest song released by Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit	23%
1811	Shawnee chief defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe	Tecumseh	23%
1890	Law passed to promote competition among businesses	{Sherman} {Antitrust} Act	20%
1826	Native American group forced to cede land in Georgia	Creek	19%
1810	Short-lived nation that secedes from Spain and joins the U.S.	West Florida	18%
2006	Space probe launched by NASA to perform a flyby of Pluto	New Horizons	12%
1824	Name given when no candidate won a majority of votes in the presidential election, leading to Congress electing the President	Corrupt Bargain	6%

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