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Embarrassing Chapters in US History, Part 1 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 4,003 times
- The average score is 13 of 21
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion fails in this country. | Cuba | 95%
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| In 2004 this president is elected to a 2nd term, to the distress and disbelief of international onlookers. | George W Bush | 93%
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| This civil rights leader is assassinated in 1968. | Martin Luther King | 89%
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| In 1995 the country is fascinated by the murder trial of this former football star. | OJ Simpson | 87%
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| Government response to this 2005 natural disaster is painfully slow, leaving millions to suffer. | Hurricane Katrina | 85%
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| This Washington DC hotel becomes synonymous with scandal when the DNC office there is broken into. | Watergate | 85%
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| In 2000 the Supreme Court votes along party lines to stop a recount in this state, effectively choosing the president. | Florida | 84%
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| This woman, who believed living in Alaska gave her foreign policy credentials, nearly becomes vice president. | Sarah Palin | 81%
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| In 1998 Congress and the US public develop an unhealthy obsession with the president's sex life, particularly his affair with this intern. | Monica Lewinsky | 78%
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| The appearance of this pop star's nipple at the 2004 Superbowl creates a media frenzy. | Janet Jackson | 74%
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| The US agitates for war with this country in 1898, provoked mostly by yellow journalism. | Spain | 72%
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| Arms are illegally sold to this country to fund illegal support for Nicaraguan contras. | Iran | 66%
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| and in 1989 this man, who can't spell "potato," actually does become VP. | Dan Quayle | 53%
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| Near 300 Lakota Indians are victims of this massacre in 1890, including 200 women and children. | Wounded Knee | 53%
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| This 1925 trial in Tennessee sees a high school teacher charged with teaching human evolution. | Scopes Trial | 51%
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| Crucial support is lent to this Chilean dictator in the 1970s. | Augusto Pinochet | 46%
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| Photos of detainee abuse at this prison are released in 2006 | Abu Ghraib | 45%
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| The national guard has to be called in to forcibly integrate this university in 1963. | Alabama | 40%
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| This Congressional resolution, prompted by events that were very overblown, provides justification for military intervention in Vietnam. | Gulf of Tonkin | 29%
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| This landmark Supreme Court decision grants corporations the same status as people, and equates giving money with free speech. | Citizens United | 18%
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| The FCC eliminates this "doctrine" in 1987, paving the way for liars and propagandists to dominate the airwaves and American political discourse in the coming decades. | Fairness Doctrine | 13%
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