The Last 100 Years - Statistics

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2004	The EU gains many new countries. Name one.	Hungary, Poland,...	94%
1922	The March on Rome starts this man's rule.	Benito Mussolini	93%
1996	Jacques Chirac got the Ig Nobel for testing A-bombs. He was president of ...	France	91%
1945	Where were the A-Bombs dropped?	Nagasaki	90%
1939	Both Germany and the USSR invaded this country.	Poland	90%
1942	Name the "Big Four" who signed the United Nations Declaration	United States	90%
1940	The United Kingdom gets a new PM. Whom?	Winston Churchill	90%
2002	Europe gets a uniform currency. What's it called?	Euro	89%
1959	The US gets two new states. Which?	Hawaii	89%
1945	Where were the A-Bombs dropped?	Hiroshima	89%
1920	Alcohol is forbidden in the US. What is this period called?	Prohibition	89%
1942	Name the "Big Four" who signed the United Nations Declaration	United Kingdom	89%
1959	The US gets two new states. Which?	Alaska	88%
1921	This physicist gets the Nobel Prize.	Albert Einstein	88%
2009	He is the first African American president of the USA.	Barack Obama	88%
1948	Parts of this city were supplied by plane for eleven months.	Berlin	87%
1983	The first of these is found. There is one at the center of every galaxy.	Black {Hole}	87%
2020	This pandemic defines our lives.	COVID-19	87%
1962	This almost leades to an atomic war.	{Cuban} Missile Crisis	87%
1997	The Princess of Wales dies in a car crash. What was her name?	Diana	87%
1927	This Georgian becomes dictator.	Joseph Stalin	87%
1969	Name the Astronauts went into the Moon's orbit.	Neil Armstrong	87%
1923	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founds this country.	Turkey	87%
1970	This famous band splits up.	Beatles	86%
1944	The Allies arrive in Normandy. How is this event called?	D-Day	86%
1952	Army officers overthrew King Farouk. In which country did this happen?	Egypt	86%
1967	The Six Day War is led by Israel against these countries.	Egypt	86%
1982	Argentina and the United Kingdom fight over this region.	{Falkland} Islands	86%
1956	This country invades Gaza and Sinai.	Israel	86%
1949	Which Organisation is founded by western countries?	NATO	86%
1942	Name the "Big Four" who signed the United Nations Declaration	Republic of China	86%
1986	A nuclear accident happens in the Ukrainian power plant of ...	Chernobyl	85%
2005	Germany votes their first female chancellor. What's her name?	Angela Merkel	84%
1992	The USA vote a new president. Whom?	Bill Clinton	84%
1980	What are the belligerents of the war on the Persian Gulf?	Iran	84%
1980	What are the belligerents of the war on the Persian Gulf?	Iraq	84%
1968	The Tet Offensive is led by the ...	Viet {Cong}	84%
1924	This leader of the largest superpower (by area) dies.	Vladimir Lenin	84%
1930	This man initiates the Salt March	Mohandas Gandhi	83%
1977	The most famous science fiction movie series starts. Name?	Star Wars	83%
1990	The Baltic states declare independence from the USSR. Name them.	Estonia	82%
1990	The Baltic states declare independence from the USSR. Name them.	Latvia	82%
1990	The Baltic states declare independence from the USSR. Name them.	Lithuania	82%
1991	These 3 countries became independent from Yugoslavia pretty peacefully.	Croatia	81%
2008	This former province of Serbia is the last to split from former Yugoslavia.	Kosovo	81%
1999	Operation Allied Force was a part of the ...	{Kosovo} War	81%
1957	What is the name of the first satellite?	Sputnik 1	81%
2013	This virus epidemic breaks out in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.	Ebola	80%
2014	Russia annexes these two regions, which are on the same peninsula.	Crimea	79%
1933	The New Deal is initiated by ...	Franklin D. Roosevelt	79%
1967	The Six Day War is led by Israel against these countries.	Syria	79%
1943	In which city's ghetto did the largest Jewish uprising happen?	Warsaw	79%
1958	There is a new Pope. What is he called?	John XXIII	78%
1991	These 3 countries became independent from Yugoslavia pretty peacefully.	Slovenia	78%
1942	Name the "Big Four" who signed the United Nations Declaration	Soviet Union	78%
1967	The Six Day War is led by Israel against these countries.	Jordan	77%
1995	Of which war was the Srebrenica massacre a part of?	{Bosnian} War	76%
2006	The Hezbollah and Israel fight against each other in this country.	Lebanon	76%
1963	Martin Luther King Jr. holds a speech in front of the ...	{Lincoln} Memorial	76%
1965	This human rights activist was murdered.	Malcolm X	75%
2001	9/11 occurs. Which terrorist organisation did it?	Al-Qaeda	73%
1928	This man is crowned King in Kyoto.	Hirohito	73%
2017	Separatist groups in this region of Spain seek independence.	Catalonia	72%
1936	This military general starts a civil war and becomes facist dictator	Francisco Franco	72%
1950	The inhabitants of this formerly united country call this war "625".	{Korean} War	72%
2000	The Øresund Bridge is built. It connects two cities. Which?	Copenhagen	71%
1972	This building was bugged by Nixon's employees.	Watergate	71%
1961	The first man in space was ...	Yuri Gagarin	71%
1951	The Treaty of San Francisco re-established ...'s peace with the Allies.	Japan	70%
1998	The former leader of Kampuchea/Cambodia dies. What was his name?	Pol Pot	70%
1966	Mao Zedong publishes the ...	{Red} Book	70%
1969	Name the Astronauts went into the Moon's orbit.	Buzz Aldrin	69%
1931	Japan invades this region of China.	Manchuria	69%
1991	These 3 countries became independent from Yugoslavia pretty peacefully.	North Macedonia	69%
1994	The Hutu slaughtered Tutsi and Twa. What was this called?	{Rwandan} Genocide	69%
1937	LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire. What was it?	a Zeppelin	67%
1947	These two countries declared independence within a day of each other.	India	67%
1985	The Live Aid concert is held to help this country.	Ethiopia	65%
1946	Hermann Göring was sentenced to death, but took ... to avoid execution.	Cyanide	64%
1926	Gertrude Ederle is the first woman to swim over this strait.	English Channel	64%
1947	These two countries declared independence within a day of each other.	Pakistan	64%
1973	On which Jewish feast did Syria and Egypt invade the Golan Heights?	Yom Kippur	64%
1953	The dictator Fulgencio Batista is overthrown by ...	Fidel Castro	63%
1935	Laws of race are made in this German city.	Nuremberg	63%
1989	This separation is toppled.	Berlin Wall	62%
1932	These two countries fought over Chaco Boreal, South America	Bolivia	60%
1987	Zimbabwe gets a new President. Whom?	Robert Mugabe	60%
1993	Which New York City building's underground parking lot was bombed?	World Trade Center	58%
2000	The Øresund Bridge is built. It connects two cities. Which?	Malmö	57%
1932	These two countries fought over Chaco Boreal, South America	Paraguay	57%
2003	The current Turkish president is voted prime minister. What is his name?	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	57%
1979	After the Shah flees, he becomes leader of Iran. Who is he?	Ruhollah Khomeini	55%
1984	The Indian Prime Minister is murdered. What was her name?	Indira Gandhi	54%
1941	What was the operation called, that broke the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?	Barbarossa	52%
1938	The annexation of Austria through the Nazis goes by the name ...	Anschluss	50%
2015	Which object in our solar system was first reached by "New Horizons"?	Pluto	49%
1981	The first ... is sent into space. It has two white and one brown rocket.	Space {Shuttle}	49%
1955	Name the herbicide used to murder Vietnamese people.	Agent Orange	48%
2016	Massacres happen in Myanmar and State Counsellor ... did not react.	Aung San Suu Kyi	48%
1976	The Soweto Uprising is a demonstration against ...	Apartheid	45%
1971	This environmental NGO is founded.	Greenpeace	45%
1964	In this sea North Vietnam supposedly attacked a US battleship.	Gulf of {Tonkin}	44%
1978	The Pope dies, what are his successors called. One ruled for 33 days.	John Paul I	43%
2011	Through a tsunami and lack of grasp of the situation, ... melts down.^[source]	Fukushima	42%
1978	The Pope dies, what are his successors called. One ruled for 33 days.	John Paul II	42%
1974	Where was the Terracotta Army found?	Xi'an	42%
2012	France gets a new president. What is his name?	François Hollande	41%
1975	After the end of fascism in Spain this ruler is put in power.	King {Juan} {Carlos}	41%
1988	The founder of Ferrari dies. What was he called?	Enzo Ferrari	37%
1969	Name the Astronauts went into the Moon's orbit.	Michael Collins	36%
1929	The Great Depression starts through the ...	Wall Street Crash	33%
1925	The Iran gets a new Shah.	Reza Shah Pahlavi	26%
2007	It's the 300th birthday of the mathematician who found "e"	Leonhard Euler	24%
2018	The protestors in France called themselves ...	Yellow Vests	23%
2014	Russia annexes these two regions, which are on the same peninsula.	Sevastopol	19%
1934	A member of the Ustaše kills King ... of Yugoslavia.	Alexander	12%
2010	You knew you were going to have to write it some day! Icelandic volcano:	Eyjafjallajökull	12%
1960	This US spy is shot down in his Lockhead over the Soviet Union	Francis Gary Powers	12%
2019	Austrian right-wing politicians show willingness to corruption on this island.	Ibiza	12%
1954	The European Nuclear Organisation is founded. You know it as ...	CERN	9%

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