Statistics for 20th Century A-Z

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	1969	This astronaut becomes the first person to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong	99%
V	1901	This queen dies after a reign of 63 years	Victoria	91%
O	1922	This empire ceases to exist	Ottoman Empire	90%
G	1942	This leader urges Britain to "quit India"	Mahatma Gandhi	88%
P	1914	This canal is completed despite the deaths of 25,000 workers	Panama Canal	88%
D	1963	JFK is assassinated in this city	Dallas	87%
F	1982	The UK and Argentina fight over these islands	Falkland Islands	86%
I	1979	This country's shah is deposed	Iran	86%
U	1930	This country hosts the first FIFA World Cup	Uruguay	85%
E	1983–85	400,000 people die due to famine in this country	Ethiopia	84%
T	1982	Michael Jackson releases this album, the best-selling of all-time	Thriller	84%
S	1957	This Russian satellite orbits the Earth	Sputnik	83%
W	1955	Communist countries of Eastern Europe sign this military alliance	{Warsaw} Pact	83%
H	1935	This dam on the Colorado River is dedicated	Hoover Dam	81%
N	1923–46	This city hosts Nazi rallies, and later, war crimes trials	Nuremberg	81%
Z	1913	This alternative to buttons and snaps is invented in Pennsylvania	Zipper	79%
R	1916	This "mad monk" is assassinated in Russia	Rasputin	77%
K	1948	This peninsula is divided at the 38th parallel	Korea	75%
M	1943–76	This dictator kills at least 40 million people	Mao Zedong	70%
X	1959	This company introduces the copy machine	Xerox	69%
C	1900s	Picasso co-invents this "blocky" school of art	Cubism	68%
Q	1912	This dynasty comes to an end in China	Qing	66%
Y	1991	This man becomes the first democratically-elected leader of Russia	Boris Yeltsin	65%
B	1944–45	This battle marks the final German offensive on the Western Front	Battle of the {Bulge}	61%
J	1922	This novelist publishes "Ulysses"	James Joyce	52%
L	2000	During the century, this city's population increases from 41,000 to over 7 million	Lagos	39%