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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2020	B_____ (UK leaves EU)	Brexit	82%
1200	Genghis Khan invades C____	China	76%
1939	Opening shots of World War II and invasion of P_____: At 4:45am Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WWI-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig Harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on a Polish military installation on Westerplatte at the northeastern mouth of the port of the internationalized Free City of Danzig, beginning the Battle of Westerplatte and Battle of Danzig Bay. Five minutes previously, the bombing of Wieluń in the western part of Poland had commenced, beginning the Battle of the Border. Shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland	Poland	76%
2002	The E___ is officially introduced in the Eurozone countries. The former currencies of all the countries that use the E___ ceased to be legal tender on February 28	Euro	74%
2004	Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site F_______	Facebook	71%
1914	World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on S______ by telegram. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilization against Austria-Hungary.	Serbia	71%
1555	The Kingdom of A__ in Upper Burma falls.	Ava	63%
1914	The G_____ Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilisation.	German	63%
1945	Bombing of Kumagaya, Japan, by the United States using conventional bombs, beginning at 00:23. Hirohito surrender broadcast (Gyokuon-hōsō): Emperor Hirohito's announcement of the unconditional surrender of Japan is broadcast on the radio a little after noon (12:00 Japan Standard Time is 03:00 GMT). This is probably the first time an Emperor of Japan has been heard by the common people. Delivered in formal classical Japanese, without directly referring to surrender and following official censorship of the country's weak position, the recorded speech is not immediately easily understood by ordinary people. The Allies call this day Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day). This ends the period of Japanese expansionism, and begins the period of the Occupation of Japan. K____ gains independence	Korea	63%
1687	N_____ describes his theory of universal gravitation, explains the laws of mechanics, and gives a formula for the speed of sound	Newton	63%
2003	M___ makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years	Mars	61%
2009	A_____ is released in theaters, breaking many box-office records, including becoming the highest-grossing movie at the time	Avatar	58%
2007	Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while S_______ joins the Eurozone	Slovenia	58%
1111	Henry V is crowned as the H_________ Emperor by Pope Paschal II	Holy Roman	55%
2004	Indian Ocean T______ hits coastline countries	Tsunami	55%
1202	The bulk of the Crusader army gathers at V____	Venice	47%
1222	The Ghurid Dynasty capital of Firozkoh (in modern-day A_______) is destroyed, by Mongol Emperor Ögedei Khan	Afghanistan	45%
2019	Novel C__________ -19 Starts	Coronavirus	45%
2021	This Q___ Is Created	Quiz	42%
2009	N____ creates Minecraft in Sweden	Notch	37%
1500	Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures M____, but is soon driven out again by the French.	Milan	34%
2005	Chad descends into civil war after various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital, N________	N'Djamena	29%
1211	Genghis Khan summon his Mongol chieftains and prepare to wage war against the Jurchen-led Jin Dynasty in northern China. He advances across the G___ D_____	Gobi Desert	26%
1234	The Manden region rises against the Kaniaga Kingdom. This is the beginning of a process that will lead to the rise of the M___ Empire.	Mali	26%
2000	March 4 – The P__________ 2 is released in Japan, followed by other releases in western markets in late 2000	Playstation	26%
2006	Montenegro declares its independence from S_________________________ after a May 21 referendum and becomes a sovereign state. Two days later, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro officially disbands after Serbia declares its independence as well, ending an 88-year union between the two states and leaving Serbia as the successor country to the union	Serbia and Montenegro	26%
1666	A large fire breaks out in the City of London, in the house of a baker on P______ Lane, near London Bridge. The fire destroys more than 13,000 buildings (including Old St Paul's Cathedral)	Pudding	18%
1000	The Taíno have become the dominant culture of modern day P_________	Puerto Rico	18%
2011	M_________ Booms	Minecraft	16%
2004	T______, at the time the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 feet (510 m), officially opens	Taipei 101	16%
1199	Richard I dies from gangrene, caused by his C_______ wound.	Crossbow	11%
1210	The Second Parliament of Ravennika, convened by Emperor Henry of Fl- anders, is held in the town of Ravennika in C______ G_____	Central Greece	8%
2001	i_____ is launched	iTunes	5%
1600	S_______ adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of March 25.	Scotland	5%
1300	The city of B_____ receives a royal foundation charter	Bilbao	3%
1050	H_____ is sacked by King Harald III	Hedeby	3%
2007	The P______ spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole	Phoenix	3%
1400	Henry IV of England quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and S________, and the Baron le Despencer, for their attempt to have Richard II restored as king.	Salisbury	3%