Statistics for Key Moments in World History

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YearEventAnswer% Correct
4 B.C.The birth of ___Jesus
96%
29 A.D.The death of___Jesus
96%
1911Roald Amundsen reached the ___ PoleSouth
90%
1348-50A devastating pandemic known as the ___ ___kills over 100 million peopleBlack Death
89%
1909Robert Peary reached the ___PoleNorth
88%
1666 (2-5 Sep)The Great ___of London destroys about 70000 homes in the cityFire
87%
1776The declaration of ___ is signedIndependence
86%
1815Battle of ___ in which Napoleon was defeatedWaterloo
86%
1896First modern ___ Games held at AthensOlympic
83%
1865___is abolished by the 13th Amendment in the United States of AmericaSlavery
82%
1939-19452nd ___ ___ takes placeWorld War
81%
1492Christopher Columbus "discovers" the ___ ___New World
80%
1859On the Origin of Species by ___ ___is publishedCharles Darwin
79%
1848The ___Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publishedCommunist
78%
1215The ___ ___, the first document limiting the powers of King of England is signedMagna Carta
77%
1497-98Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route from Europe to ___India
76%
1789Beginning of the___ RevolutionFrench
75%
1945Dropping of Atom Bombs on _____ and _____Hiroshima and Nagasaki
66%
1337-1453England and France begin a war known as the ___ ___ ___100 years war
65%
1929Beginning of the Great ____Depression
65%
1969Landing of Apollo 11 makes ___ ___ the first man on the surface of moonNeil Armstrong
61%
1922The nation known as The... comes into existenceUSSR
61%
1991Dissolution of the ___USSR
61%
1917The...Revolution ends the Tsarist autocracyRussian
60%
1990The World Wide ___ is inventedWeb
60%
1665-66Great Plague of ___ kills about 1 million people in the cityLondon
57%
1990Reunification of ___Germany
55%
570The birth of ___Prophet Muhammed
54%
632The death of___Prophet Muhammed
54%
1957Launch of ___, marks the beginning of space ageSputnik
53%
1986___nuclear disaster occursChernobyl
50%
1757-1763___years war involving the great powers of the timeSeven
49%
1914-1918___ ___War breaks out1st World
48%
1994End of ____ in South AfricaApartheid
47%
2004Disaster caused by a ___ in the Indian OceanTsunami
46%
2001Terrorist attack on ___ ___ ___World Trade Center
46%
1912The Republic of ___ is establishedChina
29%
2011Fukushima Daiichi ____ DisasterNuclear
29%
1954 – 1968The period of the _____ _____ MovementCivil Rights
16%

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