Timeline of the 20th Century - Statistics

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Year	Question	Answer	% Correct
1901	First _____ Prizes awarded	Nobel	98%
1903	The first Tour de ______ is held	France	94%
1923	The Walt ______ company is formed	Disney	93%
1904	Construction of the ______ Canal begins	Panama	93%
1927	World population reaches two _______	Billion	92%
1929	Wall Street crash and beginning of the Great __________	Depression	92%
1974	World population reaches _ billion	4	91%
1959	World population reaches _ billion	3	90%
1959	Cuban revolution led by Fidel ______	Castro	90%
1963	Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a _____" speech	Dream	90%
1922	The province of Northern _______ is created within the United Kingdom	Ireland	90%
1952	Queen _________ II becomes Monarch of the Commonwealth realms	Elizabeth	89%
1987	World population reaches _ billion	5	88%
1961	Construction of the ______ Wall	Berlin	88%
1924	Death of Vladimir _____ triggers power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin	Lenin	88%
1922	March on Rome brings Benito _________ to power in Italy	Mussolini	88%
1903	First flight of the ______ Brothers	Wright	88%
1947	Independence of _____ and Pakistan	India	86%
1935	Persia becomes ____	Iran	86%
1945	World War II ends, United _______ is founded	Nations	86%
1953	Elvis _______'s musical career is launched	Presley	86%
1937	____ _____ and the Seven Dwarfs is the first feature-length animated movie released	Snow White	86%
1919	The Treaty of __________ redraws European borders	Versailles	86%
1959	Admission of Alaska and ______ into the United States	Hawaii	84%
1991	Dissolution of the ______ Union, and independence of 15 former ______ republics	Soviet	84%
1959	Beginning of the _______ War	Vietnam	84%
1962	Cuban _______ crisis	Missile	83%
1999	World population reaches _ billion	6	82%
1979	Implementation of China's one-_____ policy	Child	82%
1971	Completion of the World _____ Centre	Trade	81%
2000	Vladimir _____ becomes President of Russia	Putin	80%
1964	The Civil ______ Act abolishes segregation in the USA	Rights	80%
1938	First appearance of DC Comics hero ________	Superman	80%
1997	Princess _____ is killed in a car accident in Paris	Diana	78%
1939	End of Spanish Civil War, Francisco ______ becomes dictator of Spain	Franco	78%
1989	Akihito becomes Emperor of _____	Japan	78%
1940	The _____ invade France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway	Nazis	78%
1922	Howard Carter discovers ___________'s tomb	Tutankhamen	78%
1931	The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao ______	Zedong	78%
1949	Creation of North ________ Treaty Organisation	Atlantic	77%
1922	The ____, the world's first officially Communist state, is formed	USSR	77%
1917	_______ Revolution ends the _______ Empire	Russian	76%
1981	Wedding of Prince _______ and Princess Diana	Charles	74%
1973	Beginning of the _________ scandal	Watergate	74%
1927	________ becomes first Emperor of Japan	Hirohito	73%
1947	Creation of the US Central ___________ Agency	Intelligence	73%
1961	The Great ____ Forward ends in China, after the deaths of roughly 20 million people	Leap	71%
1985	Mikhail _________ becomes Premier of the Soviet Union	Gorbachev	70%
1957	Launch of _______ 1 and the beginning of the Space Age	Sputnik	70%
1920	Mohandas ______ launches non-cooperation movement	Gandhi	68%
1997	Transfer of sovereignty of ____ ____ from UK to China	Hong Kong	68%
1994	Kim Jong-__ becomes the Supreme Leader of North Korea	Il	67%
1918	Partitioning of the ________ Empire begins	Ottoman	67%
1943	The Battle of __________ ends with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German army	Stalingrad	67%
1905	Einstein creates formulation of __________	Relativity	66%
1928	Discovery of __________ by Alexander Fleming	Penicillin	65%
1921	Adolf Hitler becomes ______ of the Nazi Party	Fuhrer	63%
1991	Boris _______ becomes the first President of Russia	Yeltsin	63%
1976	Steve Jobs initiates the birth of the _____ computer	Apple	60%
1992	Maastricht Treaty creates the ________ Union	European	59%
1959	First documented cases of ____	AIDS	58%
1908	First commercial _____ transmissions	Radio	58%
1937	Japanese invasion of China, and the _______ Massacre	Nanking	57%
1975	The fall of ______ ends the Vietnam War	Saigon	54%
1913	Ford introduces the first moving ________ line	Assembly	50%
1997	_____ barrier broken on land	Sound	50%
1994	Beginning of the _______ genocide	Rwandan	49%
1972	The ______ Massacre occurs at the Summer Olympics	Munich	47%
1996	_____ the sheep becomes the first successful cloned mammal	Dolly	46%
1914	Gavrilo _______ assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand	Princip	46%
1912	Republic of _____ is established, after the dissolution of the Empire	China	45%
1913	Niels ____ formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus, and in the process paves the way for quantum mechanics	Bohr	43%
1982	Sony launches the world's first commercially sold __ Player	CD	43%
1998	______ is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin	Google	34%
1938	The Great _____ ends in the Soviet Union	Purge	34%
1932	___ World Service starts broadcasting	BBC	30%
1985	First use of ___ fingerprinting	DNA	29%
1911	Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic _______	Nucleus	29%
1986	Challenger and _________ disasters	Chernobyl	22%
1992	Discovery of the ______ belt and the first extrasolar planets	Kuiper	21%
1952	First scheduled flight by commercial ___	Jet	19%
1990	Tim _______-___ invents the World Wide Web	Berners-Lee	17%

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