Cities Made Famous by the News - Statistics

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Year	Known for...	Answer	% Correct
2020	The city where the deadly virus known as "Coronavirus" started	Wuhan	97%
1869	The canal with the same name as the city was opened to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean	Suez	74%
1692	A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft happened in this city	Salem	69%
1918	The Treaty to end the WW1 was done here	Versailles	69%
2011	A Nuclear disaster happened outside this city, due to an Earthquake and Tsunami	Fukushima	66%
1999	The ____ High School massacre was a school shooting and attempted bombing in Colorado	Columbine	57%
2014	One of two big Iraqi cities to fall to IS	Mosul	52%
1955	Disneyland was build here	Anaheim	50%
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%
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%
1942	The largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia was fought here	Darwin	43%
2018	This city hosted the winter olympics 2018	Pyeongchang	40%
1995	In this small former Yugoslavian city a massacre took place that resulted in 8000 deads	Srebrenica	23%
1937	During a civil war this city was bombed by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany and and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria	Guernica	22%
1900	The city was struck by the deadliest natural disaster in the US and killed around 6000-8000 residents	Galveston	18%
1983	Two truck bombs struck buildings in here housing American and French servicer members of the Multinational Forces	Beirut	15%

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