Statistics for Current Events by Year, 1910–1929

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

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