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Cities Made Famous by the News - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 160 times
- The average score is 8 of 16
Answer Stats
| Year | Known for... | Answer | % Correct |
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| 2020 | The city where the deadly virus known as "Coronavirus" started | Wuhan | 97%
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| 1869 | The canal with the same name as the city was opened to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean | Suez | 74%
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| 1692 | A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft happened in this city | Salem | 69%
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| 1918 | The Treaty to end the WW1 was done here | Versailles | 69%
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| 2011 | A Nuclear disaster happened outside this city, due to an Earthquake and Tsunami | Fukushima | 66%
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| 1999 | The ____ High School massacre was a school shooting and attempted bombing in Colorado | Columbine | 57%
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| 2014 | One of two big Iraqi cities to fall to IS | Mosul | 52%
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| 1955 | Disneyland was build here | Anaheim | 50%
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| 1947 | The ____ UFO incident was named after this town in New Mexico even though the crash happened at a ranch 75 miles from it | Roswell | 46%
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| 1993 | Both movies and books such as "Black Hawk Down" have been based upon the U.S. military's raid of this city | Mogadishu | 44%
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| 1942 | The largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia was fought here | Darwin | 43%
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| 2018 | This city hosted the winter olympics 2018 | Pyeongchang | 40%
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| 1995 | In this small former Yugoslavian city a massacre took place that resulted in 8000 deads | Srebrenica | 23%
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| 1937 | During a civil war this city was bombed by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany and and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria | Guernica | 22%
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| 1900 | The city was struck by the deadliest natural disaster in the US and killed around 6000-8000 residents | Galveston | 18%
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| 1983 | Two truck bombs struck buildings in here housing American and French servicer members of the Multinational Forces | Beirut | 15%
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