| Year | Trauma | Country | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Chernobyl nuclear disaster | Ukraine | 98%
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| 1898 | Loss of Cuba, their last significant colony | Spain | 96%
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| 2021 | The Taliban regain power over the country. | Afghanistan | 95%
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| 1945 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Japan | 95%
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| 1940 | Defeat against Germany in WWII and establishment of the Vichy government | France | 93%
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| 1958 | Beginning of the "Great Leap Forward" which caused the deadliest famine in human history. | China | 91%
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| 2014 | 1:7 defeat against Germany at the FIFA World Cup in their own country | Brazil | 87%
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| 2005 | Scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have cloned human embryos, turned out to be a fraud. | South Korea | 84%
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| 1968 | Their army killed 503 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre. | United States | 83%
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| 1973 | Augusto Pinochet ends democracy with a coup d'état. | Chile | 71%
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| 2005 | First defeat since 1987 in "The Ashes", the most important cricket tournament | Australia | 66%
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| 1979 | Grand Mosque seizure, which is sometimes considered as the beginning of islamic terrorism | Saudi-Arabia | 63%
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| 1978 | Kidnapping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro | Italy | 53%
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| 1991 | Battle of Vukovar | Croatia | 39%
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| 2001 | Grounding of their national airline, nicknamed "The Flying Bank" | Switzerland | 32%
|
| 1482 | Erection of the Elmina Castle, which later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade | Ghana | 31%
|
| 1985 | Operation "Wooden Leg", bombing of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) headquarters | Tunisia | 17%
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