Statistics for Years in History #1 - Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
World War I begins	1914	95%
Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon	1969	94%
Columbus "discovers" America	1492	89%
Fall of the Berlin Wall	1989	88%
The U.S. Declaration of Independence is signed	1776	87%
The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor	1941	80%
The start of the Great Depression	1929	79%
The Wright Brothers fly the first airplane	1903	74%
Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo	1815	73%
The U.S. Civil War begins	1861	70%
King John signs the Magna Carta	1215	68%
The Spanish Armada sails to invade England but is scattered	1588	63%
Edison patents the light bulb	1879	63%
The Black Plague reaches Europe	1347	62%
The Protestant Reformation begins	1517	62%
The Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes and others try to blow up the English Parliament	1605	61%
Alexander the Great dies in Babylon	323 BC	58%
Muhammed dies in Medina	632	55%
The Thirty Years War comes to an end with the Peace of Westphalia	1648	52%
Constantinople falls to Turkish invaders - ending the Byzantine Empire	1453	42%