Statistics for Damaged and Destroyed Cities

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Year	Hint	City	% Correct
1945	Struck by an atomic bomb	Hiroshima	96%
1945	Struck by an atomic bomb	Nagasaki	93%
1986	Abandoned after a nuclear meltdown	Chernobyl	86%
79	Destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius	Pompeii or Herculaneum	85%
2005	Flooded by Hurricane Katrina	New Orleans	82%
1666	Burned after a fire that started in Pudding Lane	London	80%
845	Plundered by Vikings who sailed up the Seine	Paris	80%
455	Sacked by the Vandals	Rome	73%
1923	Devastated by the Great Kanto Earthquake	Tokyo	69%
480 B.C.	Razed by the Persian emperor Xerxes after the Battle of Thermopylae	Athens	65%
1204	Sacked during the Fourth Crusade, as crusaders forgot about the Holy Land and instead looted this greatest of Christian cities	Constantinople	65%
1906	Hit by an earthquake followed by a fire	San Francisco	61%
70	Nearly leveled by the Romans. Its famous temple would never be rebuilt.	Jerusalem	60%
1812	Burned by its residents right before Napoleon captured it	Moscow	56%
1814	Burned by British Troops during the War of 1812	Washington D.C.	56%
146 B.C.	Destroyed by Roman general Scipio Africanus at the end of the Third Punic War	Carthage	53%
1258	Sacked by the Mongols, ending the Islamic Golden Age	Baghdad	48%
2010	Struck by an earthquake that killed at least 100,000 people	Port-au-Prince	45%
1864	Burned by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman	Atlanta	42%
1521	Leveled by Hernan Cortés and the Spanish	Tenochtitlan	35%