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Un-American Decades: 1900s

Can you answer these history questions that completely ignore the existence of the United States?
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Last updated: November 1, 2024
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1899-1902
In what modern-day country did the British Empire fight the Boers?
South Africa
1901
This country was formed when six British colonies federated.
Australia
1901
This award ceremony took place for the first time in Stockholm.
Nobel Prize
1901
The Ugandan Railway is completed, but what killed dozens of its construction workers?
Lions
1902
The powerful Santa María eruption devasted the Quetzaltenango region in this country.
Guatemala
1902
The British finish construction of the Low Aswan Dam on this river.
The Nile
1903
Maurice Garin was the first winner of this French bicycle race.
Tour de France
1903
This country disunited from Colombia on advice from some unimportant country.
Panama
1904
A British Expeditionary Force took Lhasa, the capital of this former country.
Tibet
1904
This country's incompetent navy fires on British fishing boats, thinking they're Japanese torpedo boats.
Russia
1905
The sailors of this Russian ship mutinied, sailed to Romanian waters, and scuttled it.
Battleship Potemkin
1905
This country's imperial examination system for civil service ended after thousands of years.
China
1905
This British ship was such an advance in naval technology that the entire generation of ships was named after it.
HMS Dreadnought
1906
This city hosted the first French Grand Prix automobile race.
Le Mans
1907
SKF, or the Swedish Ball Bearing Factory, was founded in this city.
Gothenburg
1907
This country's crown jewels, the Jewels of the Order of St. Patrick, were stolen. They were never recovered.
Ireland
1908
Austria-Hungary annexed these two regions (now a country) from the Ottoman Empire.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1909
Ernest Shackleton ran out of supplies oh so close to this destination.
The South Pole
1909
The RMS Titanic was set to water from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in this city.
Belfast
1909
Fritz Hofmann and his team polymerized isoprene, the first time this material was made synthetically.
Rubber
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3 Comments
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
Nov 1, 2024
1903 seems to be the only link to the USA directly

and also that the Titanic was going to USA

Dimby
+2
Level 83
Nov 1, 2024
I could’ve not included that little joke, but I feel it works with the concept. 😄
Dollyfroggy
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Level 63
Nov 3, 2024
Too US-centric. Terrible quiz.
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