Statistics for Animals in the News

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Year	Name	News story	Answer	% Correct
1957	Laika	Soviet animal becomes the first to orbit the Earth	Dog	95%
1996	Dolly	A mammal is cloned for the first time	Sheep	90%
2010	Tilikum	Sea World animal kills a human for the third time	Orca	82%
2006	–	"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin killed by an animal	Stingray	82%
2015	Cecil	Internet is outraged after killing of animal by dentist	Lion	77%
1963	Ming Ming	For the first time, an animal of this species is bred in captivity	Giant Panda	76%
1918	Cher Ami	Heroic animal delivers message helping to rescue 500 American troops stuck behind enemy lines	Carrier Pigeon	73%
1945	Miracle Mike	Animal has its head chopped off but survives for another 18 months	Chicken	73%
1988	Bubbles	Michael Jackson acquires an exotic new pet	Chimpanzee	70%
1998	Koko	Precocious animal has the first interspecies online chat, but doesn't make a lot of sense	Gorilla	70%
1886	Punxsutawney Phil	Every year, this animal sees its shadow or doesn't - presaging future weather conditions	Groundhog	66%
30 BC	–	Cleopatra commits suicide by letting this type of snake bite her *	Asp	60%
2010	Paul	"Psychic" animal predicts World Cup matches	Octopus	58%
1871	–	Animal falsely accused of starting the Great Chicago Fire	Cow	55%
1907	Clever Hans	After fooling thousands, it turns out that this animal is not actually able to do arithmetic	Horse	54%
2012	Lonesome George	Species goes extinct as last remaining individual dies	Pinta Island tortoise	45%

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