This Day in History - November - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Nov 9	1989	This wall comes tumbling down	The Berlin Wall	95%
Nov 21	1905	This scientist publishes his famous formula: E = MC²	Albert Einstein	93%
Nov 22	1963	This political leader is assassinated in Dallas	John F. Kennedy	92%
Nov 12	1927	This dictator gains undisputed control over the Soviet Union	Joseph Stalin	91%
Nov 24	1859	This naturalist publishes "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	88%
Nov 17	1869	This canal, connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, is inaugurated	Suez Canal	88%
Nov 11	1918	An armistice is signed ending hostilities in this war	World War I	88%
Nov 14	1948	This British prince is born	Prince Charles	86%
Nov 4	1979	Hostages are seized from the U.S. embassy in this country	Iran	83%
Nov 3	1903	Prodded by the United States, this country separates from Colombia	Panama	80%
Nov 23	1991	One day before his death, this singer reveals that he is HIV positive	Freddie Mercury	79%
Nov 19	1863	Abraham Lincoln gives a famous speech at this battle site	Gettysburg	79%
Nov 27	1095	Pope Urban II calls for this holy war	First Crusade	76%
Nov 5	1605	This Gunpowder Plot conspirator is captured	Guy Fawkes	73%
Nov 30	1939	The USSR invades this country to start the Winter War	Finland	71%
Nov 28	1717	This pirate captures a French ship which he renames "Queen Anne's Revenge"	Blackbeard	69%
Nov 2	1930	Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of this country	Ethiopia	67%
Nov 25	1986	The King Fahd Causeway is opened connecting Saudi Arabia to this nearby island	Bahrain	66%
Nov 1	1957	The Mackinac Bridge connects the two peninsulas of this U.S. state	Michigan	65%
Nov 13	2015	ISIS terrorists attack the Bataclan theatre in this city	Paris	64%
Nov 8	1519	This conquistador enters Tenochtitlán	Hernán Cortés	60%
Nov 18	1978	Over 900 Jonestown cult members commit suicide by drinking cyanide mixed with this sweetened beverage	Flavor Aid	59%
Nov 7	1800	A law is passed making it illegal for women in France to wear these (it would be repealed in 2013)	Trousers	59%
Nov 20	1820	This type of whale attacks and sinks the whaling ship Essex	Sperm Whale	56%
Nov 10	1871	Henry Stanley presumably finds this explorer in the interior of Africa	David Livingstone	53%
Nov 26	1976	This band releases their debut single "Anarchy in the U.K."	The Sex Pistols	53%
Nov 16	1988	Benazir Bhutto is elected prime minister of this country	Pakistan	52%
Nov 15	1920	This city on the Germany / Poland border becomes a quasi-independent city state	Danzig	51%
Nov 29	1877	This musical device is first demonstrated by Thomas Edison	Phonograph	48%
Nov 6	1861	This politician is elected President of the Confederate States	Jefferson Davis	39%