20th Century A-Z - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	1969	First person to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong	99%
V	1901	Queen who died after a reign of 63 years	Victoria	90%
O	1922	Empire which ceased to exist	Ottoman Empire	89%
D	1963	City where JFK was assassinated	Dallas	87%
G	1942	Leader who urged Britain to "quit India"	Mahatma Gandhi	87%
P	1914	Canal which was completed despite the deaths of 25,000 workers	Panama Canal	87%
I	1979	Country whose shah was deposed	Iran	86%
F	1982	Islands which the UK and Argentina fought over	Falkland Islands	85%
U	1930	Country which hosted the first FIFA World Cup	Uruguay	85%
E	1983–85	Country where 400,000 people died due to a famine	Ethiopia	83%
T	1982	Album released by Michael Jackson which would become the best-selling of all time	Thriller	83%
S	1957	Russian satellite which orbited the Earth	Sputnik	82%
W	1955	Military alliance signed by the Communist countries of Eastern Europe	{Warsaw} Pact	82%
N	1923–46	City which hosted Nazi rallies, and later, war crimes trials	Nuremberg	80%
H	1935	Dam which was built on the Colorado River	Hoover Dam	79%
Z	1913	Alternative to buttons and snaps which was invented in Pennsylvania	Zipper	78%
R	1916	"Mad Monk" who was assassinated in St. Petersburg	Rasputin	76%
K	1948	Peninsula which was divided at the 38th parallel	Korea	74%
M	1943–76	Dictator whose policies killed at least 40 million people	Mao Zedong	70%
Q	1912	Dynasty which came to an end in China	Qing	67%
X	1959	Company which introduced the copy machine	Xerox	66%
C	1900s	School or art invented by Picasso and Braque	Cubism	65%
Y	1991	The first democratically-elected leader of Russia	Boris Yeltsin	63%
B	1944–45	The final German offensive on the Western Front in WWII	Battle of the {Bulge}	60%
J	1922	Novelist who published "Ulysses"	James Joyce	51%
L	1900s	City whose population increased from 41,000 to over 7 million during the century	Lagos	38%