Statistics for Mistakes and Blunders in History

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Year	Blunder	Answer	% Correct
1912	This "unsinkable" ship sinks due to the captain's negligance of an iceberg.	RMS Titanic	95%
1812	Napoleon Bonaparte invades this country, where he loses 95% of his army.	Russia	94%
1979	The Soviet Union occupies this country, abandoning it after 10 disastrous years.	Afghanistan	91%
2020	China fails to keep this disease contained and also spreads it to the entire world.	COVID-19	91%
44BC	Roman Senators assassinate this Dictator, believing they saved the Roman Republic.	Julius Caesar	90%
2003	George W. Bush invades this country on the false assumption that there are WMD's there.	Iraq	89%
1914	This archduke's driver takes a wrong turn and kickstarts WWI.	Franz Ferdinand	88%
1941	This dictator reroutes his 6th Panzer Army early.	Adolf Hitler	87%
1922	The King of Italy makes this man the Prime Minister.	Benito Mussolini	81%
1066	The English decide to chase down the retreating Normans led by this conqueror.	William the Conqueror	77%
1915	The Allied forces begin a campaign at this peninsula in Turkey, which fails.	Gallipoli	66%
1938	This Prime Minister of Britain attempts to appease Adolf Hitler by allowing him to annex Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia.	Neville Chamberlain	64%
1942	Japan attacks this U.S. -owned island.	Midway	40%
1863	A bayonet charge by Confederate Troops, named for this general, ends in failure.	George Pickett	34%