Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Sporting event which was held for the first time in over 1,600 years | Olympic Games | 94%
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Christmas ballet written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker | 88%
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Famous villain who was created by Bram Stoker | Dracula | 85%
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Style of dance that was invented in Argentina and Uruguay | Tango | 80%
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Nation which the United States declared war on after the sinking of the USS Maine | Spain | 70%
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Future U.S. President who led a group of soldiers called the Rough Riders | Theodore Roosevelt | 67%
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Author who wrote "The Jungle Book"? | Rudyard Kipling | 64%
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Gold rush that happened in Canada | {Klondike} Gold Rush | 57%
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Irish writer was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to hard labor | Oscar Wilde | 54%
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Pacific island which Paul Gauguin moved to | Tahiti | 51%
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Famous hotel in Paris that opened in 1898. (The only reason not to stay there was if you couldn't afford it) | Hôtel Ritz | 50%
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Type of radiation discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen | X-Ray | 49%
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Crime which Alfred Dreyfus was accused of committing | Espionage | 43%
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Nickname which has been given to the decade | {Gay} Nineties | 43%
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French term for an impoverished, unconventional, artistic person | Bohémien | 38%
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Style of sensationalist journalism practiced by William Randolph Hearst | {Yellow} Journalism | 38%
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Massachusetts woman accused of killing her parents with an axe | Lizzie Borden | 37%
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Term that referred to a wealthy American industrialist | {Robber} baron | 37%
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Type of baskets which were originally used in basketball | {Peach} baskets | 35%
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Composer who wrote his most famous march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | John Philip Sousa | 28%
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