Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Word Search
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
This Month in History - January - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 115 times
- The average score is 15 of 31
Answer Stats
| Day | On this day in... | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1960, this progressive, young president announced his presidential candidacy | John F. Kennedy | 93%
|
| 3 | 1959, this becomes the 49th U.S. state | Alaska | 89%
|
| 1 | 1818, Mary Shelley publishes this famous monster novel | Frankenstein | 89%
|
| 23 | 1973, this president announces a peace accord with Vietnam | Richard Nixon | 81%
|
| 20 | 1841, this Chinese island is occupied by the British | Hong Kong | 78%
|
| 8 | 1790, this president delivered the first ever State of the Union address | George Washington | 77%
|
| 30 | 1933, he is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany | Adolf Hitler | 75%
|
| 13 | 1960, these notorious Russian labor camps are abolished | Gulag | 72%
|
| 14 | 1539, Spain annexes this Caribbean island | Cuba | 65%
|
| 19 | 1809, the author of "The Raven" is born | Edgar Allen Poe | 61%
|
| 7 | 1927, this comedy basketball team plays their first game | Globetrotters | 59%
|
| 25 | 1533, Henry VIII marries his second wife secretly | Anne Boleyn | 58%
|
| 17 | 1706, famous American inventor and politican from Pennsylvania is born | Benjamin Franklin | 58%
|
| 28 | 1956, this rocker makes his first television appearance | Elvis Presley | 57%
|
| 22 | 1957, Israel withdraws from this peninsula | Sinai | 52%
|
| 16 | 1605, this Spaniard publishes the first Don Quixote novel | Miguel de Cervantes | 45%
|
| 27 | 1944, a 900-day siege of this city comes to an end | Leningrad | 43%
|
| 18 | 2002, the civil war in the African country, whose capital is Freetown, ends | Sierra Leone | 42%
|
| 5 | 1957, this revolutionary baseball player announces his retirement | Jackie Robinson | 39%
|
| 12 | 1964, rebels on this Tanzanian island begin a revolt | Zanzibar | 39%
|
| 29 | 1886, the first gasoline-powered automobile is patented by this man | Karl Benz | 34%
|
| 11 | 1693, this famous Sicilian volcano erupts | Mt. Etna | 34%
|
| 6 | 1907, the first Montessori school opens in this city | Rome | 33%
|
| 10 | 1776, this famous pamphlet by Thomas Paine is published | Common Sense | 30%
|
| 26 | 1942, first American forces in Europe arrive here | Northern Ireland | 30%
|
| 15 | 1892, this innovator publishes the first rules for basketball | James Naismith | 25%
|
| 4 | 1958, this famous explorer from New Zealand reaches the South Pole | Edmund Hillary | 24%
|
| 21 | 1861, this high ranking C.S.A. official resigns his spot in the U.S. Senate | Jefferson Davis | 18%
|
| 31 | 1801, this notable Federalist judge is sworn in as the Chief Justice | John Marshall | 11%
|
| 9 | 1834, this famous ship arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia | HMS Beagle | 3%
|
| 24 | 1857, the first fully-fledged south Asian university is formed here | Kolkata | 3%
|
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz
New and Popular