Letter | Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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A | 1896 | This city hosts the first modern Olympic games | Athens | 97%
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B | 1824 | This composer's Ninth Symphony premieres | Ludwig van Beethoven | 97%
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E | 1889 | This tower becomes the tallest human-built structure in the world | Eiffel Tower | 90%
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J | 1888 | London is struck by this unidentified serial killer | Jack the Ripper | 89%
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W | 1815 | Napoleon meets his final defeat at this battle | Waterloo | 89%
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G | 1871 | This country is unified | Germany | 88%
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K | 1868 | The city ceases to be the capital of Japan | Kyoto | 87%
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M | 1844 | This transmission code is developed | Morse Code | 87%
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V | 1889 | This painter paints "Starry Night" | Vincent Van Gogh | 87%
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S | 1833 | This practice is abolished in the British empire | Slavery | 85%
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H | 1804 | This country gains independence from France | Haiti | 83%
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Y | 1872 | This becomes the world's first national park | Yellowstone | 83%
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P | 1869 | This table is created by Dmitri Mendeleev | The Periodic Table | 81%
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X | 1895 | This type of radiation is discovered by Röntgen | X-Ray | 80%
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Q | 1859 | This territory separates from New South Wales | Queensland | 79%
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N | 1892 | This Tchaikovsky ballet debuts in St. Petersburg | The Nutcracker | 79%
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L | 1900 | This political party is founded in London | Labour Party | 75%
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O | 1800s | China fights, and loses, these two wars against Western powers | The {Opium} Wars | 75%
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Z | 1828 | Shaka leads this African kingdom to its greatest extent | The Zulu Kingdom | 73%
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D | 1897 | This novel is published by Bram Stoker | Dracula | 71%
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T | 1805 | Admiral Nelson wins this battle, but is killed in action | Trafalgar | 70%
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I | 1861 | This country is unified | Italy | 68%
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F | 1865 | Abraham Lincoln is assassinated at this theater | {Ford}'s Theater | 67%
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C | 1900 | This city, non-existent at the beginning of the century, is the world's 5th most populous at its end | Chicago | 57%
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R | 1865–77 | The United States undergoes this period in its history | Reconstruction | 41%
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U | 1800s | Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill formulate this philosophy | {Utilitarian}ism | 33%
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