Statistics for 1900s Decade Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Queen who died after a reign of 63 years	Queen Victoria	94%
American city that was devastated by an earthquake in 1906	San Francisco	85%
Tire company that created a restaurant guide to help promote driving	Michelin	76%
Theory of spacetime formulated by Albert Einstein	Special Relativity	75%
New invention that was first tested near Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina	Airplane	73%
Ford automobile that came in any color you want – as long as it was black	Model T	72%
Destination that was nearly reached by explorer Robert Peary	The North Pole	70%
River on which the Aswan Dam was built	Nile	69%
Modern-day country in which the Second Boer War was fought	South Africa	67%
Fill in the blank: "Speak softly, and carry a big _____"	Stick	67%
Art movement started by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso	Cubism	66%
A dreadnought was a type of __________	Battleship	54%
Word starting with S that referred to a woman such as Emmeline Pankhurst who fought for the right of women to vote	Suffragette	54%
City devastated by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius	Naples	51%
Musical genre exemplified by Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"	Ragtime	46%
Period of prosperity that was experienced by France	{Belle} Époque	44%
Style of variety show that was popular during the time period (hint: starts with V)	Vaudeville	38%
President who was assassinated in Buffalo, New York by anarchist Leon Czolgosz	William McKinley	30%
Author who wrote the novel "Kim"	Rudyard Kipling	29%
French author who began writing "In Search of Lost Time"	Marcel Proust	18%