Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Person who invented the practical light bulb | Thomas Edison | 97%
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Person who patented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 87%
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What Levi Strauss patented | Blue jeans | 86%
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The world's first national park | Yellowstone | 83%
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Sound-playing device invented by the same person | Phonograph | 78%
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Author of "Anna Karenina" | Leo Tolstoy | 73%
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How long it took Phileas Fogg to travel around the world | 80 Days | 72%
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Concert hall that opened in London and was named after Queen Victoria's husband | Royal Albert Hall | 72%
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Kingdom led by Otto von Bismarck which united Germany under its leadership | Prussia | 71%
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Art movement exemplified by Claude Monet | {Impression}ism | 67%
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City whose massive fire was blamed on an Irish cow | Chicago | 62%
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Native kingdom which Britain fought against in modern-day South Africa | Zulu Kingdom | 62%
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The most famous Native American warrior at the Battle of the Little Bighorn | Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull | 53%
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What Susan B. Anthony was arrested for doing in 1872 | Voting | 53%
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Who H.M. Stanley presumably found in the Africa wilderness | Dr. David Livingstone | 51%
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W.S. Gilbert's songwriting partner | Arthur Sullivan | 50%
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Jewish-born Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom | Benjamin Disraeli | 50%
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City that was briefly ruled by a socialist "commune" of the people | Paris | 42%
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Period of history that came to an end in the Southern states of the U.S. | Reconstruction | 37%
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Kansas boom town that was the ending point of cattle drives | Dodge City | 26%
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