Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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1912 | Ocean liner which hit an iceberg and sank | RMS Titanic | 95%
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1917 | Country where Bolsheviks overthrew the government | Russia | 92%
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1914 | Archduke whose assassination sparked WWI | Franz Ferdinand | 90%
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1929 | Economic downturn which began on Black Thursday | Great Depression | 90%
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1924 | Soviet leader who died, leading to a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky | V. I. Lenin | 90%
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1919 | Treaty which officially ended the war between Germany and the Allied powers | Treaty of {Versailles} | 88%
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1925 | Gangster who took over the Chicago Outfit crime syndicate | Al Capone | 83%
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1926 | Escape artist who died from a ruptured appendix | Harry Houdini | 83%
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1918 | Pandemic which eventually killed at least 1% of the world population | {Spanish} Flu | 80%
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1928 | Character who first appeared in the animated short "Steamboat Willie" | Mickey Mouse | 78%
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1922 | Empire which reached its largest extent – covering over 20% of the world's land area | {British} Empire | 77%
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1916 | Middle East empire which the British and French secretly agreed to divide between themselves after WWI | {Ottoman} Empire | 74%
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1911 | Place that explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to visit | South Pole | 71%
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1921 | Disease which Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with | Polio | 70%
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1920 | Failed predecessor to the United Nations which met for the first time | League of {Nations} | 69%
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1913 | Former professor who became President of the U.S. | Woodrow Wilson | 67%
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1923 | Political figure sentenced to prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch | Adolf Hitler | 59%
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1915 | Genocide which started with the arrest of 250 intellectuals in Constantinople | {Armenian} Genocide | 58%
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1927 | The first person to fly non-stop from New York to Paris | Charles Lindbergh | 56%
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1910 | Country formed by the union of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River colonies | South Africa | 50%
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