Statistics for Events by U.S. State #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
1848: Gold is discovered, triggering a massive gold rush	California	90%
1776: Signing of the Declaration of Independence	Pennsylvania	89%
1836: Battle of the Alamo	Texas	87%
1620: The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock	Massachusetts	83%
1969: Apollo 11 launches	Florida	76%
1995: Terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building	Oklahoma	76%
1879: Edison invents the light bulb	New Jersey	75%
1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus	Alabama	74%
1969: Woodstock music festival	New York	67%
1513: Juan Ponce de León leads the first European expedition in the continental U.S.	Florida	66%
1970: National guardsmen kill four protestors at Kent State University	Ohio	63%
1814: Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner"	Maryland	59%
1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.	Tennessee	59%
1809: Abraham Lincoln born	Kentucky	48%
1968: Riots at the Democratic National Convention	Illinois	47%
1975: Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa last seen alive	Michigan	37%