Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What ship sank after hitting an iceberg? | RMS Titanic | 100%
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What canal was completed in 1914? | Panama Canal | 94%
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What epidemic killed more than 1% of the world's population? | Spanish Flu | 86%
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Who was assassinated in Sarajevo? | Franz Ferdinand | 83%
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What treaty officially ended WWI between Germany and the Allies? | Treaty of {Versailles} | 83%
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What Polish/French woman won a Nobel Prize for chemistry? | Marie Curie | 82%
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What yellow-brown chemical weapon was used, first by the Germans, but later by the Allies? | Mustard Gas | 71%
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In what empire was there a genocide against Armenians, Greeks, and Syriac Christians? | Ottoman Empire | 68%
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What "lost" city of the Incas was rediscovered? | Machu Picchu | 65%
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What was the nickname of pilot Manfred von Richthofen? | The Red Baron | 64%
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Who was President of the United States for most of the decade? | Woodrow Wilson | 64%
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What communist faction came to power in Russia? | Bolshevik | 61%
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What oil baron became the first dollar billionaire? | John D. Rockefeller | 58%
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What British adventurer fought in the Arab Revolt? | T. E. Lawrence | 58%
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What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan? | The Birth of a {Nation} | 58%
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What then-illegal practice was advocated by Margaret Sanger? | Birth Control | 37%
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What wrote the play "Pygmalion"? | George Bernard Shaw | 31%
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What ballet by Igor Stravinsky shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913? | The Rite of {Spring} | 30%
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What song featured the lyrics "from glen to glen, and down the mountain side"? | Danny Boy | 27%
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What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon? | Jim Thorpe | 18%
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