Statistics for History of Wisconsin

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Description	Answer	% Correct
Country from which most of the European immigrants came between 1850–1900	Germany	91%
Person after which Wisconsin's capital was named	{James} Madison	91%
Political party that was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854	Republican Party	84%
Hungarian-born escape artist who grew up in Wisconsin	Harry Houdini	83%
Cannibalistic serial killer who killed 17 men between 1978–1991	Jeffrey Dahmer	79%
Like many other U.S. states, Wisconsin is named after a ...	River	75%
Main export of Wisconsin during the early days of French rule	Fur	74%
What Schiltz, Pabst, and Blatz made	Beer	72%
Wisconsinite who was voted "the greatest American architect of all time" in 1991	Frank Lloyd Wright	60%
Green Bay Packers coach who led them to victory in the two first Super Bowls	Vince Lombardi	60%
City in which Kyle Rittenhouse shot two men	Kenosha	59%
Israeli Prime Minister who grew up in Milwaukee	Golda Meir	43%
Wisconsin's Victor L. Berger was the first of these to be elected to the Congress	{Social}ist	42%
The deadliest of this type of natural disaster occurred in Wisconsin in 1871	Wildfire	35%
Scott Walker became the first U.S. governor to win this type of election in 2012	{Recall} election	22%
First European to set foot in Wisconsin	Jean {Nicolet}	16%