Question | Answer | % Correct |
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World War I begins | 1914 | 96%
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon | 1969 | 95%
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Columbus "discovers" America | 1492 | 91%
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The U.S. Declaration of Independence is signed | 1776 | 89%
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Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1989 | 88%
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor | 1941 | 82%
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The start of the Great Depression | 1929 | 81%
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Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo | 1815 | 74%
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The Wright Brothers fly the first airplane | 1903 | 73%
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Edison patents the light bulb | 1879 | 72%
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The U.S. Civil War begins | 1861 | 68%
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King John signs the Magna Carta | 1215 | 67%
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The Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes and others try to blow up the English Parliament | 1605 | 63%
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The Black Plague reaches Europe | 1347 | 62%
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The Spanish Armada sails to invade England but is scattered | 1588 | 62%
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The Protestant Reformation begins | 1517 | 61%
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Alexander the Great dies in Babylon | 323 BC | 60%
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Muhammed dies in Medina | 632 | 57%
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The Thirty Years War comes to an end with the Peace of Westphalia | 1648 | 51%
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Constantinople falls to Turkish invaders - ending the Byzantine Empire | 1453 | 47%
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