Statistics for English Inventions #1

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
The world's most popular sport	Soccer	99%
Faster way to clean your floor	Vacuum Cleaner	79%
The first element	Hydrogen	77%
Spiral structure of this molecule	DNA	68%
Using circles to show the relationships between sets	{Venn} Diagram	66%
Game of scrums	Rugby	65%
Charge-carrying subatomic particle	Electron	56%
Subsegment of the internet	World Wide Web	55%
Before this, groundskeepers used scythes	Lawn Mower	53%
Social movement that promotes camping and neckerchiefs	Scouting	52%
Edward Jenner's discovery	{Smallpox} Vaccine	52%
Cheap floor covering that sometimes peels at the corners	Linoleum	51%
Synthetic moldable material	Plastic	43%
Faster way to make yarn	{Spinning} Jenny	43%
Branch of mathematics simultaneously invented by Newton and Leibniz	Calculus	41%
Invented as a way to break a trench-warfare stalemate	Tank	35%
Ironically, this opening device wasn't invented in France	Corkscrew	25%
Bessemer process for making this	Steel	16%
Top ingredient in Coke	Carbonated Water	13%
George W. Bush sent 1.5 million of these in 2005	Christmas Card	9%