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Question	Answer	% Correct
What sporting event was held for the first time in over 1,600 years?	Olympic Games	93%
What Christmas ballet was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?	The Nutcracker	88%
What character was created by Bram Stoker?	Dracula	86%
What style of dance was invented in Argentina and Uruguay?	Tango	80%
What nation did the United States declare war on after the sinking of the USS Maine?	Spain	70%
What future President led a group of soldiers called the Rough Riders?	Theodore Roosevelt	67%
Who wrote "The Jungle Book"?	Rudyard Kipling	66%
What gold rush happened in Canada?	Klondike Gold Rush	57%
What writer was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to hard labor?	Oscar Wilde	53%
To what Pacific island did Paul Gauguin move?	Tahiti	52%
What famous hotel in Paris opened? (The only reason not to stay there was if you couldn't afford it)	Hôtel Ritz	51%
What type of radiation was discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen?	X-Rays	50%
What nickname has been given to the decade?	{Gay} Nineties	46%
What crime was Alfred Dreyfus accused of committing?	Espionage	43%
What was the French term for an impoverished, unconventional, artistic person?	Bohémien	40%
What Massachusetts woman was accused of killing her parents with an axe?	Lizzie Borden	39%
What style of sensationalist journalism was practiced by William Randolph Hearst?	{Yellow} Journalism	39%
What term referred to a wealthy American industrialist?	{Robber} Baron	37%
What type of baskets were originally used in basketball?	{Peach} Baskets	36%
What composer wrote his most famous march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"?	John Philip Sousa	30%