Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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1945 | These cities are nuked, despite Japan being just weeks from surrender | Nagasaki | 100%
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1867 | Russia sells this massive oil-filled territory to the U.S. at two cents an acre | Alaska | 92%
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1945 | These cities are nuked, despite Japan being just weeks from surrender | Hiroshima | 92%
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1399 | This famous tower is finished in Pisa, but quickly begins to tilt | Leaning Tower | 92%
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1812 | This famous French general invades Russia in winter, which never, ever works | Napoleon | 92%
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1776 | This colony declares independence, but the reasons for revolution quickly return | United States | 92%
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1965 | The United States gets involved in this long and ultimately failed war in East Asia | Vietnam War | 92%
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-330 | This Macedonian ruler fails to conquer Italy, which later overruns his fallen land | Alex the Great | 83%
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1972 | Richard Nixon and his advisers listen in on talks from this democratic HQ | Watergate | 83%
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1899 | The British empire assumes this African war will be easy - and nearly loses | Boer War | 75%
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1977 | Fox turns over Star Wars' sequel and merchandising rights to this director | George Lucas | 75%
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1805 | This British general struts around on deck during a battle and is easily shot | Horatio Nelson | 75%
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1830 | Andrew Jackson authorizes the evacuation of Native Americans along this route | Trail of Tears | 75%
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1453 | A gate left open in this city allows the Turks to destroy the Byzantine empire | Constantinople | 67%
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2017 | Donald Trump nearly ruins Korean peace talks by taunting this leader | Kim Jong-un | 67%
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2016 | This man's choice to pull troops from Middle Eastern countries leads to infighting | Barack Obama | 58%
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1915 | Winston Churchill commands several disastrous charges on this hill | Gallipoli | 58%
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1982 | Reagan semi-secretly supplies weapons to this country, his supposed enemy | Iran | 50%
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1970 | An oxygen tank explodes during this aborted lunar landing attempt | Apollo 13 | 42%
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1981 | This company rejects an offer from E.T. to show their candy; Reeses accepts it | Mars | 42%
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-4000* | Sauron lets this twisted creature free, which eventually leads to his downfall | Gollum | 33%
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565 | This Byzantine ruler dies, having grown his empire by using much of its money | Justinian I | 33%
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1815 | A battle in this city is fought after the War of 1812 has already ended | New Orleans | 33%
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2012 | Mark Sanchez, quarterback of this team, commits the infamous 'Butt Fumble' | New York Jets | 33%
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1990 | Officials accidentally allow this impossible play during a Colorado-Missouri game | Fifth down | 25%
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2007 | Engineers from this Formula One team steal information from their rival Ferrari | Mclaren | 25%
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-1446* | The reigning pharaoh of Egypt incites this Hebrew escape from slavery | The Exodus | 25%
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2006 | This Norwegian grandmaster blunders into checkmate against Gagunashvili | Magnus Carlsen | 17%
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1997* | Harry Potter seriously injures Draco Malfoy using this spell, invented by Snape | Sectumsempra | 17%
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1550* | This man says 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!' and dies | Vizzini | 0%
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