| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| This empire controls Turkey, most of Iraq, and parts of Greece | Ottoman Empire | 96%
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| Wilbur Wright demonstrates this invention to astonished onlookers in Paris | Airplane | 92%
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| This structure, built for the 1889 World's Fair, is the tallest in the world | Eiffel Tower | 89%
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| This canal is currently under construction by the United States | Panama Canal | 87%
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| Ford Motors produces this best-selling automobile for the first time | Model T | 79%
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| This President declines to run for a third term | Theodore Roosevelt | 77%
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| Puyi, age 2, becomes the last emperor of this country | China | 76%
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| The "Tunguska event". Hundreds of square kilometers of forest are vaporized by a meteroid strike in this country | Russia | 75%
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| The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society is established. They meet at this person's home | Sigmund Freud | 75%
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| The Hoover Company acquires the manufacturing rights to this invention | The Vacuum Cleaner | 75%
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| American explorer Robert Peary sets sail in an attempt to become the first person to reach this destination | The North Pole | 74%
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| In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy is killed along with his sidekick … | The {Sundance} Kid | 73%
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| King Leopold II of Belgium relinquishes personal control of this country | D.R. Congo | 68%
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| This author, creator of James Bond, is born | Ian Fleming | 66%
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| The Summer Olympics are held in this city | London | 66%
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| This future President is born in Stonewall, Texas | Lyndon B. Johnson | 58%
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| This future world leader is arrested for the first time - in South Africa | Mohandas Gandhi | 48%
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| This "7th inning stretch" song is composed | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 40%
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| Leon Trotsky becomes editor of this newspaper, later to become the official paper of the USSR | Pravda | 38%
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| This "Second Sex" author is born | Simone de Beauvoir | 19%
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