Un-American Decades: 1900s - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 54 times
The average score is 12 of 20

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1901	This award ceremony took place for the first time in Stockholm.	Nobel Prize	98%
1899-1902	In what modern-day country did the British Empire fight the Boers?	South Africa	92%
1903	Maurice Garin was the first winner of this French bicycle race.	Tour de France	82%
1907	This country's crown jewels, the Jewels of the Order of St. Patrick, were stolen. They were never recovered.	Ireland	78%
1903	This country disunited from Colombia on advice from some unimportant country.	Panama	76%
1904	A British Expeditionary Force took Lhasa, the capital of this former country.	Tibet	75%
1905	This country's imperial examination system for civil service ended after thousands of years.	China	69%
1902	The British finish construction of the Low Aswan Dam on this river.	The Nile	69%
1901	This country was formed when six British colonies federated.	Australia	67%
1909	Ernest Shackleton ran out of supplies oh so close to this destination.	The South Pole	67%
1904	This country's incompetent navy fires on British fishing boats, thinking they're Japanese torpedo boats.	Russia	65%
1909	The RMS Titanic was set to water from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in this city.	Belfast	63%
1908	Austria-Hungary annexed these two regions (now a country) from the Ottoman Empire.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	55%
1902	The powerful Santa María eruption devasted the Quetzaltenango region in this country.	Guatemala	53%
1907	SKF, or the Swedish Ball Bearing Factory, was founded in this city.	Gothenburg	37%
1901	The Ugandan Railway is completed, but what killed dozens of its construction workers?	Lions	37%
1905	The sailors of this Russian ship mutinied, sailed to Romanian waters, and scuttled it.	Battleship {Potemkin}	35%
1905	This British ship was such an advance in naval technology that the entire generation of ships was named after it.	HMS {Dreadnought}	31%
1906	This city hosted the first French Grand Prix automobile race.	Le Mans	29%
1909	Fritz Hofmann and his team polymerized isoprene, the first time this material was made synthetically.	Rubber	25%