Statistics for Queen Elizabeth II: One Question Per Year Of Her Reign

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Year	Question	Answer	% Correct
1953	This infamous Soviet leader suffers a stroke and dies	Joseph Stalin	95%
1965	This former British Prime Minister dies, aged 90	Winston Churchill	86%
1957	UK Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns after a disastrous mishandling of the crisis in this Egyptian canal	Suez Canal	85%
1962	This actress is found dead from an overdose, with the incident officially ruled a probable suicide	Marilyn Monroe	84%
1971	The first location of this popular coffee shop chain opens in Seattle, Washington	Starbucks	83%
1985	This soda drink changes its formula to overwhelmingly negative response	Coca Cola	82%
1997	Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in this European capital city	Paris	82%
1956	This artist enters the United States music charts for the first time	Elvis Presley	80%
1974	US President Richard Nixon resigns following pressure in the wake of this government scandal	Watergate	80%
1969	This NASA program successfully lands a manned spacecraft on the moon for the first time ever	Apollo	79%
1979	Lord Mountbatten of Burma is assassinated in Ireland by this paramilitary group	IRA	79%
1982	Argentina and the United Kingdom go to war over these islands in the south Atlantic ocean	Falkland Islands	78%
1966	England hosts and wins this sporting tournament, for the first and only time	FIFA World Cup	78%
2005	The first ever video on this popular website is uploaded	YouTube	78%
1994	The final vestige of apartheid in South Africa is ended upon the election of this president	Nelson Mandela	77%
2014	An outbreak of this virus begins in West Africa	Ebola	76%
2007	Steve Jobs reveals this product at an event in San Francisco	iPhone	76%
1958	This former general is elected President of France	Charles de Gaulle	75%
2016	David Cameron announces his resignation as Prime Minister after the United Kingdom votes to exit this economic union.	European Union	75%
2004	This social networking website is launched for Harvard University students	Facebook	75%
1977	This landmark science fiction film is released in cinemas, instantly becoming a hit	Star Wars	75%
1990	This long-standing British Prime Minister resigns after a leadership challenge	Margaret Thatcher	74%
2001	George W. Bush declares a "war" on this, following the September 11th terrorist attacks	War on Terror	74%
1981	This popular video game character makes his first appearance	Mario	73%
2015	The first detailed photos of this dwarf planet are taken by the NASA New Horizons space probe	Pluto	73%
2021	This militant group regains power in Afghanistan	Taliban	73%
2009	This film is released, eventually becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time	Avatar	71%
1960	Multiple African colonies gain independence from the United Kingdom, as well as this Mediterranean island	Cyprus	71%
2018	Women in Saudi Arabia gain the right to do this	Drive	71%
2013	This Pope is elected upon the resignation of Benedict XVI	Pope Francis	71%
2003	The US invasion of Iraq leads to the capture of this leader in December	Saddam Hussein	69%
1996	In Scotland, this sheep is the first to be successfully cloned from an adult cell	Dolly the Sheep	68%
1989	Protests break out in this Beijing city square	Tiananmen Square	68%
1975	The Vietnam War ends with the capture of this city, now known as Ho Chi Minh City	Saigon	67%
1999	Bill Clinton is acquitted by a Senate impeachment trial, held in the wake of a scandal in which it was discovered he had lied about having an affair with this White House intern	Monica Lewinsky	66%
1961	This man becomes the first human to visit space, orbiting the planet once	Yuri Gagarin	66%
2017	This region of Spain declares independence following a referendum, but is not recognized by any nation	Catalonia	65%
1995	This Canadian province narrowly votes against becoming independent	Quebec	63%
1976	This freestanding structure opens in Toronto, Canada, the tallest at the time	CN Tower	61%
1984	This now-common device is first available for consumer purchase	Mobile phone	61%
1986	The Space Shuttle program is put on hiatus after this disaster	Challenger disaster	60%
1972	British troops fire on unarmed civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland, in an event known as this	Bloody Sunday	59%
1955	Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white passenger in this Alabama city	Montgomery	59%
1987	The first appearance of this cartoon airs on The Tracey Ullman Show	The Simpsons	59%
2010	The Winter Olympics are held in this Canadian city	Vancouver	59%
1964	The Beatles top the charts in the United States for the first time, leading to this cultural phenomenon	Beatlemania	58%
1993	This former nation ceases to exist, splitting into two sovereign states	Czechoslovakia	58%
2019	Taiwan is the first country in Asia to legalize this	Gay marriage	58%
1954	The United States Supreme Court rules that this educational practice is unconstitutional	Segregated schools	58%
1980	This stratovolcano in Washington state erupts, killing 57 people	Mount St. Helens	57%
2011	This Libyan leader is overthrown and killed as part of the "Arab Spring" protests	Muammar Gaddafi	57%
2006	This video game console is released by Nintendo	Wii	57%
1983	The final episode of this American war dramedy airs	MASH	55%
2000	A massive effort the previous year to update computer systems mean this 'end of the world' conspiracy theory doesn't come to pass	Y2K	55%
1988	This infamous terrorist group is founded	Al-Qaeda	53%
1992	This Irish singer-songwriter protests the Catholic Church's coverup of sex abuse by ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live	Sinead O'Connor	52%
1998	This landmark Irish peace agreement is signed and voted in favour of by citizens of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	Good Friday Agreement	50%
1959	Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash, an event later referred to as this by singer Don McLean	The Day The Music Died	48%
2022	This former world leader is assassinated during a campaign stop in Japan	Shinzo Abe	45%
2002	This European nation joins the United Nations, after rejecting a place in 1986	Switzerland	43%
1963	This popular science fiction show debuts for the first time, one day after President Kennedy's assassination	Doctor Who	42%
1991	Invented in the previous two years by Tim Berners-Lee, this creation is released to the public for the first time	World Wide Web	41%
1952	This Canadian state broadcaster begins transmitting	CBC	40%
2020	The COVID-19 pandemic impacts the American Presidential election, leading to a large amount of these ballots	Mail-in ballots	40%
1970	This African nation severs its remaining ties to the United Kingdom, becoming an unrecognized republic	Rhodesia	32%
2012	CERN announces the discovery of this particle through collisions in the Large Hadron Collider	Higgs boson	28%
1968	In the same month that Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated, British politician Enoch Powell makes this infamous speech in Birmingham, UK	Rivers of Blood	23%
2008	The Great Recession is triggered by a collapse of the housing bubble, primarily due to this mortgage type	Subprime mortgages	23%
1973	This performing arts venue is opened by Queen Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction	Sydney Opera House	17%
1967	This Australian Prime Minister disappears whilst swimming at Cheviot Beach	Harold Holt	14%
1978	John Paul I dies after only 33 days as Pope, leading to the first instance of this since 1605	Year of Three Popes	12%