20th Century A-Z

For each letter of the alphabet, guess these answers related to the years 1901–2000.

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	Year	Hint	Answer
A	1969	This astronaut becomes the first person to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong
B	1944–45	This battle marks the final German offensive on the Western Front	Battle of the Bulge
C	1900s	Picasso co-invents this "blocky" school of art	Cubism
D	1963	JFK is assassinated in this city	Dallas
E	1983–85	400,000 people die due to famine in this country	Ethiopia
F	1982	The UK and Argentina fight over these islands	Falkland Islands
G	1942	This leader urges Britain to "quit India"	Mahatma Gandhi
H	1935	This dam on the Colorado River is dedicated	Hoover Dam
I	1979	This country's shah is deposed	Iran
J	1922	This novelist publishes "Ulysses"	James Joyce
K	1948	This peninsula is divided at the 38th parallel	Korea
L	2000	During the century, this city's population increases from 41,000 to over 7 million	Lagos
M	1943–76	This dictator kills at least 40 million people	Mao Zedong
N	1923–46	This city hosts Nazi rallies, and later, war crimes trials	Nuremberg
O	1922	This empire ceases to exist	Ottoman Empire
P	1914	This canal is completed despite the deaths of 25,000 workers	Panama Canal
Q	1912	This dynasty comes to an end in China	Qing
R	1916	This "mad monk" is assassinated in Russia	Rasputin
S	1957	This Russian satellite orbits the Earth	Sputnik
T	1982	Michael Jackson releases this album, the best-selling of all-time	Thriller
U	1930	This country hosts the first FIFA World Cup	Uruguay
V	1901	This queen dies after a reign of 63 years	Victoria
W	1955	Communist countries of Eastern Europe sign this military alliance	Warsaw Pact
X	1959	This company introduces the copy machine	Xerox
Y	1991	This man becomes the first democratically-elected leader of Russia	Boris Yeltsin
Z	1913	This alternative to buttons and snaps is invented in Pennsylvania	Zipper

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18 Comments

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Level 83

Feb 22, 2018

Could "zip" maybe be accepted for the last question?

Level ∞

Feb 22, 2018

Okay

Level 78

Feb 22, 2018

Would you please allow alternate spellings of Yeltsin such as Yeltzin? (or I could just remember, I always get that spelling wrong).

Level 76

Feb 23, 2018

James Joyce didn't publish Ulysses, he wrote it. Sylvia Beach published it.

+14

Level 83

Feb 27, 2018

He submitted it for publication? I think it's ok as it is, like an architect or a king "built" something.

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Level 65

Oct 30, 2019

You could nitpick about Mao killing 40 million people too.

Level 76

Jun 19, 2022

Mao killed 40 million (the number continuously grows) because his policies - particularly during the Great Leap Forward - resulted in famine. However, Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon are teflon: just because millions died of guns, bombs, and similar during the US war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, that doesn't mean any of those deaths should stick to them. At least that's what I assume from these quizzes.

Level 80

Jun 19, 2022

When I was in school, it was 20 million. By the time I left college, it was 30 million. Now, apparently it's 40 million.

+22

Level 57

May 16, 2018

For those wondering, the Los Angeles metro area went from a population of about 190,000 in 1900 to over 12 million by 2000.

Level 87

Jul 9, 2018

That was my first guess.

Level 66

Jul 11, 2018

Mine too.

Level 34

May 24, 2018

I misspelt Nuremberg with a u, with a variety of eu/e/u combinations and I don't think they were wholly unreasonable suggestions. Could attempts such as Neuremburg be accepted?

Thanks. Really interesting quiz!

Level 53

Jul 9, 2018

I kept on trying to spell Nuremburg "Nurenburg" or "Nurnburg"

oops

Level 66

Jul 11, 2018

Considering that in German it's Nürnberg, that's an understandable way to try and spell it.

Level 69

Jun 19, 2022

neuremburg doesn't make sense because in english umlauts are represented by an e after the letter but nuremberg does not have an umlaut as the german is nürnberg anyway

Level 57

Jul 9, 2018

I thought of the Falklands but thought they were farther north, for some reason.

Level 83

Sep 14, 2019

You might've been thinking about the Faroe islands

Level 70

Dec 5, 2021

Only forgot Sputnik

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