Historical Failures - Statistics

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 62 times
48 since last reset
The average score is 13 of 25

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1912	This ship crashes into an iceberg, causing the deaths of over 1500 people	The Titanic	95%
-1250*	This Greek ruse is foolishly accepted by the people of Troy	Trojan Horse	93%
1998	This president states that he 'did not have sexual relations' with Ms. Lewinsky	Bill Clinton	90%
2016	Nearly 63 million Americans vote for this man to be their president	Donald Trump	88%
1986	This nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine melts down catastrophically	Chernobyl	85%
2003	George W. Bush attacks the whole of Iraq for actions by this sole dictator	Saddam Hussein	85%
1789*	Marie Antoinette allegedly declaims this phrase, starting the French Revolution	'Let them eat cake'	78%
1920	This period, intended to lower crime throughout the United States, begins	Prohibition	75%
1986	This NASA space shuttle tragically explodes 72 seconds into its flight	Challenger	73%
1978*	Emsley A. Laney High School cuts this future star from their basketball team	Michael Jordan	63%
1937	This luxury liner, filled with hydrogen, bursts into flames in New Jersey	The Hindenburg	60%
1941	This German operation, intended to defeat Russia, backfires spectacularly	Barbarossa	53%
2018	This user creates a quiz about failures, thinking the comments won't be political	Aesthus	48%
2012	Hillary Clinton blunders her way through this attack on U.S. forces in Libya	Benghazi attack	40%
1957	This company creates the Edsel, named for its founder's friend, which bombs	Ford	40%
2016	Apple removes this useful component from its newest iPhone	Headphone jack	40%
2017	This Southern NFL team blows a 28-3 Super Bowl lead	Atlanta Falcons	38%
1998	Bill Gates experiences this infamous error on his PC during a presentation	Blue Screen	38%
1898	The U.S. blames this ship's sinking on Spain, inciting a controversial war	The Maine	35%
1803	Napoleon sells this 828,000 square mile tract of land for 3 cents an acre	Louisiana Territory	30%
2016	This phone, created by Samsung, begins exploding at random	Note 7	28%
2010	This oil rig explodes; six years later, a dramatized movie recounts the events	Deepwater Horizon	20%
1930	Congress raises these taxes to slow the depression - but makes things worse	Tariffs	20%
2017	Apple removes this useful component from its newest iPhone	Home button	15%
1999	A metric/imperial err betwixt NASA and this company causes an orbiter to crash	Lockheed Martin	5%