Statistics for General History By Year (1950-2000)

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1953	Joseph _____ leader of the Soviet Union, dies.	Stalin	95%
1963	This US president was shot in Dallas	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	87%
1959	Fidel Castro assumes power of ____	Cuba	86%
1950	The _____ War starts in north eastern asia	Korean	85%
1964	This future south african president is sentenced to jail for life.	Nelson Mandela	84%
1965	The first US troops arrive in ______	Vietnam	82%
1968	Civil Rights Activist ______ is shot dead in Memphis	Martin Luther King, Jr.	81%
1957	Russia launches the ______ I, the first earth-orbitting satelite	Sputnik	81%
1961	US sponsored ex-Cubans invade Cuba at the ___ __ ____.	Bay of Pigs	73%
1988	The war between Iran and ____ officially ends, with over a million deaths because of it	Iraq	73%
1987	British Prime Minister ______ ______ , known as the Iron Lady, wins a third term.	Margaret Thatcher	73%
1982	Britain is victorious over _______ in the Falklands war	Argentina	72%
1969	Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, the crew of _____ walk the moon for the first time.	Apollo 11	67%
1986	The _______ Disaster, a nuclear accident causing an estimated 3940 deaths from radiation induced cancer, among other things.	Chernobyl	67%
1980	This president is elected.	Ronald Reagan	67%
1998	Europeans agree to have one currency, the ____.	Euro	66%
1981	U.S. hostages from this country are freed.	Iran	66%
1997	JK Rowling's first book in the _______ series is published.	Harry Potter	65%
1967	The Six Day War comes and goes between Arab forces and ______	Israel	63%
1985	Soviet leader ______ _______ , the last Soviet leader gains power.	Mikhail Gorbachev	61%
1955	West ______ becomes a sovereign state	Germany	60%
1972	11 Israeli Athletes are killed at the Olympic Games at ______	Munich	60%
1990	The famous cartoon sitcom _________ debuts on Fox.	The Simpsons	58%
1966	This cartoonist died, or had himself cyrogenically frozen	Walt Disney	56%
1971	Mao Zedong invites U.S. athletes to play ____ ____	Ping Pong	53%
1978	The _______, the first portable stereo, is introduced yet again by Sony	Walkman	52%
1996	Rapper _____ _______, is shot down in a drive by shooting	Tupac Shakur	51%
1962	_______ _______, wife of Arthur Miller(Death of a Salesman), dies of a drug overdose at age 36.	Marilyn Monroe	50%
1970	Janis Joplin and ________ both died at age 27.	Jimi Hendrix	42%
1960	The man thought to be responsible for the holocaust, Adolf ________, is captured by Israelis. He was executed in 1962	Eichmann	40%
1993	This palace becomes open to the public	Buckingham Palace	37%
1992	This trade is signed between the USA, Mexico, and Canada	NAFTA	36%
1976	_____, probably the most well known and legendary sports movie of all time, is released	Rocky	35%
1991	This state dissolves	Soviet Union	33%
1979	A nuclear accident at ___ ____ _____, in Pennsylvania releases radiation	Three Mile Island	33%
1984	Apple introduces the ________, the most user-friendly computer so far.	Macintosh	29%
1999	People anxiously await the ___ apocalyptic bug.	Y2K	28%
1983	The US invades ______	Grenada	27%
1973	______ _____ wins the Academy Award for best actor, but Sacheen Littlefeather stands in his place to protest U.S. treatment of Native Americans	Marlon Brando	26%
1974	Nixon and which Russian leader meet to discuss nuclear arms limitation agreements.	Leonid Brezhnev	25%
1975	The ___, the first commercial method of watching videos at home, is developed by Sony	VHS	25%
1994	Olympic ice skater ______ _______ was attacked, allegedly by her competitior Tonya Harding	Nancy Kerrigan	21%
1995	Olympic ice skater ________ is attacked by the ex-husband of her main competitor, Tonya Harding	Nancy Kerrigan	21%
1958	Truman Capote writes this classic.	Breakfast at Tiffany's	19%
1951	The __ Ammendment is passed, which limits the amount of terms a President can serve	22nd	16%
1989	A massive earthquake of a 7.2 magnitude occurs, destroying a hundred thousand buildings in the city of ________	San Francisco	16%
1954	Brown v. Board of Education of ______(city), a landmark civil right case for the U.S, occurs	Topeka	16%
1956	Elvis Presley tops music charts for the first time, with hit single _______ _______	Heartbreak Hotel	13%
1977	The South African activist _____ ____ dies at the hands of Afrikaner police	Steve Biko	11%
1952	______ __ __ _____, a movie about two movie stars transitioning out of the silent era, is released	Singin' in the Rain	8%
2000	Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, ending a 71 year reign of this party	Institutional Revolutionary Party(PRI)	4%