Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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The Battle of Trafalgar is fought off southern Spain | 1805 | 73%
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated | 1865 | 73%
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The Olympic Games are revived in Athens | 1896 | 68%
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Queen Victoria comes to the throne | 1837 | 41%
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Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto | 1848 | 36%
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The British East India Company faces a rebellion in India | 1857 | 36%
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Pierre and Marie Curie announce the discovery of radium | 1898 | 36%
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The USA acquires French territory in the Louisiana Purchase | 1803 | 32%
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Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night | 1889 | 32%
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The world's first public railway opens.from Stockton to Darlington | 1825 | 27%
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The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York | 1886 | 27%
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The Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace in London | 1851 | 23%
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General George Custer dies at Little Big Horn | 1876 | 23%
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The first edition of 'Frankenstein' is published anonymously | 1818 | 18%
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Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna | 1827 | 18%
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Construction of the Suez Canal is completed | 1869 | 18%
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Argentina declares independence from Spain | 1816 | 14%
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The Galapagos islands are annexed by Ecuador | 1832 | 14%
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Great Britain and the Qing dynasty sign the Treaty of Nanking | 1842 | 14%
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph | 1877 | 14%
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