Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1890–1909

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1903	Invention demonstrated by the Wright Brothers	Airplane	95%
1896	City which hosted the first modern Olympic games	Athens	92%
1904	Country which launched a surprise attack on Russian forces in the Pacific	Japan	91%
1901	Monarch who died after a reign of 63 years	Queen Victoria	88%
1908	Country that King Leopold II of Belgium relinquished personal control over after atrocities came to light	Congo Free State	87%
1890	Dutch painter who committed suicide in France	Vincent van Gogh	87%
1900	French restaurant guide created to increase demand for car tires	Michelin Guide	86%
1906	U.S. city which was devastated by an earthquake and fire	San Francisco	86%
1894	Last person to be crowned as Tsar of Russia	{Nicholas} II	84%
1892	Christmas ballet which debuted in St. Petersburg, Russia	The Nutcracker	84%
1905	Patent examiner living in Bern who published four important physics papers in one miraculous year	Albert Einstein	79%
1898	Country which the U.S. declared war on following the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine	Spain	79%
1909	City founded by Jewish settlers just outside of Jaffa	Tel Aviv	78%
1891	Sport invented by James Naismith	Basketball	74%
1902	South African conflict which came to an end after the British used concentration camps to control the civilian population	Anglo–{Boer} War	72%
1899	Thinker who published "The Interpretation of Dreams"	Sigmund Freud	70%
1897	Invention patented by Guglielmo Marconi	Radio telegraphy	65%
1893	Amusement ride which made its debut at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago	Ferris wheel	62%
1895	Irish writer arrested for gross indecency	Oscar Wilde	59%
1907	Painter who completed his famous work "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"	Pablo Picasso	58%