Statistics for 100 Years, 100 Events

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Years	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2017	This controversial businessman becomes US president	Donald Trump	99%
2016	The British people decide to leave...	the European Union	97%
2009	First Afro-American U.S. president	Barack Obama	94%
2002	New European currency	Euro	93%
1989	This concrete barrier falls	Berlin Wall	91%
2000	Russian politician who becomes de-facto leader	Vladimir Putin	90%
2007	Apple releases this brand new phone	iPhone	88%
1997	Movie with Leo diCaprio and Kate Winslet	Titanic	88%
1991	This superpower collapses	Soviet Union	87%
1981	This woman marries Charles, Prince of Wales	Diana	86%
1963	Lee Harvey Oswald kills this politician	John F. Kennedy	86%
1939	Nazi Germany attacks this country	Poland	84%
2014	Russia annexes this Peninsula	Crimea	83%
1952	This English monarch becomes Queen	Elizabeth II.	83%
2005	This Asian country now possesses nuclear weapons	North Korea	83%
1970	This English rock band breaks up	The Beatles	83%
1986	Catastrophic nuclear accident in the Ukraine	Chernobyl disaster	82%
1953	This Russian dictator dies	Josef Stalin	82%
2001	Al-Qaeda attacks the United States (nickname)	9/11	81%
1982	War between Argentina and the UK	Falklands War	81%
1969	Mankind lands on this astronomical body	Moon	81%
1974	This U.S. president resigned the presidency	Richard Nixon	81%
2012	The Queen officially opens this sport event	Summer Olympics	81%
1959	This "Líder" becomes Cuban president	Fidel Castro	80%
1957	This terrorist is born in Riyadh	Osama bin Laden	80%
1924	The founder of the Soviet Union dies	Vladimir Lenin	78%
1983	Official beginning of this world-wide communication network	Internet	77%
1976	Founding Father of China dies	Mao Zedong	77%
1930	Uruguay wins the first .....	FIFA World Cup	76%
1931	This NYC skyscraper becomes the tallest building in the world	Empire State Building	75%
1994	This happens in Rwanda	Genocide	75%
1996	Rapper fatally shot in Las Vegas	Tupac Shakur	75%
1933	The only U.S president who was 12 years is office becomes president	Franklin D. Roosevelt	74%
2011	A civil war begins here which goes on until now	Syria	74%
1984	Indian Prime Minister assassinated	Indira Gandhi	73%
1932	Ibn Saud found this country (the name appears in the country name)	Saudi Arabia	73%
1922	Howard Carter discovers this Egyptian Pharao	Tutankhamun	73%
1944	On 20 July, Claus von Stauffenberg attempt to assassinate ...	Adolf Hitler	72%
1947	Name a country that gained its independence in 1947	India or Pakistan	72%
1950	War between the communist north and the capitalist south	Korean War	72%
1966	This country wins its first FIFA World Cup	England	71%
1918	The Armistice of Compiègne ends this war on 11 November	World War I	71%
2004	What kills 250,000 people on Boxing Day?	Earthquake / Tsunami	70%
1979	Revolution in this Asian country	Iran	70%
1934	Hitler calls himself now ....	Führer	69%
1929	Great economic crisis that started after the U.S. stock market crash	Great Depression	69%
1926	This American model is born as Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles	Marilyn Monroe	69%
1925	This autobiographical book by Hitler is published	Mein Kampf	69%
1936	Guerra Civil Española, in English	Spanish Civil War	69%
1971	Country receives its independence from Pakistan	Bangladesh	67%
1978	First Polish pope	John Paul II.	67%
1923	Mustafa Atatürk declares the independence of his country	Turkey	67%
1985	Portuguese football player born in Madeira	Cristiano Ronaldo	66%
1948	David Ben-Gurion declares the independence of his country	Israel	66%
2008	This European country announces its independence	Kosovo	66%
1972	Attack during the Olympics in this city	Munich	65%
1962	This crisis almost lead to WWIII	Cuban Missile Crisis	64%
1975	The fall of this city ends the Vietnam War	Saigon	64%
1961	First man in space	Yuri Gagarin	64%
1958	This French general founds the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle	62%
1992	Racial riots in this U.S. city	Los Angeles	60%
2003	This tennis GOAT wins his first title	Roger Federer	59%
1937	German zeppelin catches fire in Lakehurst, NJ	LZ 129 'Hindenburg'	56%
1965	Human rights activist assassinated in Manhattan	Malcolm X	56%
2015	ISIS fighters kill 130 people in this city	Paris	54%
1941	A date which will live in ....	Infamy	53%
1927	First aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris	Charles Lindbergh	51%
1945	What V-E-Day means	Victory in Europe Day	51%
1955	Collective defense treaty among the USSR and its satellite states	Warsaw Pact	51%
2013	Whistleblower announces that the NSA spy out	Edward Snowden	48%
1956	Revolution in this European country	Hungary	48%
1980	This U.S. volcano erupts	Mount St. Helens	48%
1942	Decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII	Battle of Midway	46%
1949	This Federal Republic is founded	Germany	44%
1987	Mr. Gorbachev, ...	Tear down this wall!	44%
1940	German Air Force against Royal Air Force	Battle of Britain	43%
1943	Bloodiest battle in the history of warfare	Battle of Stalingrad	43%
1999	The NATO attacks unduly this country	Serbia	40%
1988	Female tennis player wins the 'Golden Slam'	Steffi Graf	40%
1993	African country gets its independence	Eritrea	39%
1919	This Asian country is the only one becoming its independence in 1919	Afghanistan	38%
1998	American political sex scandal	Lewinsky scandal	38%
1973	War between Israel and Egypt	Yom Kippur War	37%
1938	Term used to describe the annexation of Austria	Anschluss	36%
1990	Deutsche Wiedervereinigung, in English	German reunification	36%
1920	International organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace	League of Nations	36%
1967	War between Israel and Egypt (again)	Six-Day War	35%
1968	On what holiday did Communist forces launch a devastating offensive?	Tet	34%
1951	American couple sentenced to death because of telling secret nuclear plans	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg	32%
2006	Olympic Winter Games location	Turin	32%
1946	This war begins in the former French colonies of Southeast Asia	First Indochina War	30%
1954	Where a soccer miracle happens	Bern	29%
1960	Why is 1960 the "Year of Africa" (answer in one word)	Independence	28%
1921	This republican becomes U.S. president	Warren G. Harding	26%
1928	The Winter Olympics are held in the Swiss village	St. Moritz	19%
1964	This incident leads to the Vietnam War	Gulf of Tonkin incident	17%
1995	Terrible massacre in the Bosnian War	Srebrenica	16%
1935	Antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced in Nürnberg	Nuremberg Laws	14%
2010	This volcano discontinues the European air traffic	Eyjafjallajökull	13%
1977	This German terrorist group peaks its activity	Red Army Fraction	10%