Statistics for Most Forgotten Embarrassing Chapters in History

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Country	Percentage	Hint	Answer	% Correct
U.S. History	35%	Nearly 300 Lakota Indians are victims of this massacre in 1890	Wounded {Knee}	85%
Russian History	84%	American Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky at the world championships of this game	Chess	77%
British History	45%	40,000 troops are slaughtered trying to capture this tiny Turkish peninsula during WWI	Gallipoli	75%
Russian History	74%	In the early 20th century, tens of thousands of people die in "pogroms" targeting this group of people	Jews	75%
Russian History	77%	In an event called the Holodomor, Soviet leaders inflict a terrible famine on this country, killing millions	Ukraine	75%
Russian History	75%	This leader is found drunk, in his underwear, trying to hail a cab, and wanting pizza during a 1995 visit to Washington D.C.	Boris Yeltsin	73%
U.S. History	49%	In 1830 this president signs the Indian Removal Act	Andrew Jackson	67%
British History	42%	British troops torture people during the Mau Mau uprising in this country	Kenya	67%
Italian History	71%	This insane Roman emperor, known as "Little Boot", supposedly plans to promote his horse to the rank of consul	Caligula	63%
Chinese History	48%	Tens of millions die in the Taiping Rebellion after a man named Hong Xiuquan proclaims himself to be the brother of this religious figure	Jesus Christ	63%
Chinese History	34%	In 2013, a zoo in the city of Louhe defrauds patrons by displaying a dog that they claim is this type of animal	Lion	62%
German History	32%	During the Nazi era, fraudulent anti-Semitic text is taught in German schools	The Protocols of the Elders of {Zion}	58%
French History	63%	France protects and celebrates this film director who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl	Roman Polanski	54%
U.S. History	30%	Photos of detainee abuse at this prison are released in 2006	Abu Ghraib	52%
German History	39%	Desperate to enter the U.S. market, Deutsche Bank loans money to this American after no other bank will	Donald Trump	52%
British History	27%	Nearly 100 people die in this city's St. Scholastica Day Riot after students complain about the quality of their beverages	Oxford	50%
French History	66%	Painter Paul Gauguin likely spreads syphilis to the population of this tropical island	Tahiti	50%
German History	39%	Over 1,200 German women are sexually assaulted by migrants on this holiday in 2015, which is intially not reported by German media	New Year's Eve	48%
British History	33%	This English king spends only six months of his reign in England, preferring his estates in southwest France	Richard the Lionheart	48%
German History	43%	This German duo, famous for "Girl You Know its True" are busted for lip-synching in 1989	Milli Vanilli	46%
Chinese History	29%	A terrible famine is made worse thanks to Mao's campaign to kill this type of bird	Sparrow	46%
French History	49%	In this last 19th century "affair", an innocent Jewish soldier is convicted of treason	{Dreyfus} affair	42%
U.S. History	40%	This 1925 trial in Tennessee sees a high school teacher charged with teaching human evolution	{Scopes} Trial	42%
French History	61%	France loses many of its North American colonies as a result of this 1756-1763 war	Seven Years' War	37%
French History	57%	In 1415, France loses this battle against a much smaller English army, mostly peasant archers	Battle of {Agincourt}	35%
Chinese History	29%	Foxconn factories in this industrial city install nets to reduce the suicide rate of workers	Shenzhen	35%
Italian History	55%	Radiocarbon dating shows that this piece of cloth was not actually used to bury Jesus	Shroud of Turin	35%
German History	21%	21 people die (and 500 are injured) in a stampede at this electronic music festival	The {Love} Parade	35%
Italian History	40%	This illegitimate son of a pope supposedly holds an orgy at the Papal Palace called the "Banquet of Chestnuts"	Cesare {Borgia}	33%
British History	18%	This royal office, responsible for helping the King use the toilet, is considered one of the most desirable positions in the Tudor court	Groom of the {Stool}	33%
Italian History	40%	This nuclear physicist is forced to flee Italy for the United States in 1938 because of anti-Jewish laws that threatened his wife	Enrico Fermi	29%
Chinese History	18%	Manchus conquer China and force the men to adopt this hairstyle	Queue	25%
Italian History	29%	Early Romans need women, so they steal them from this nearby tribe	Sabines	25%
U.S. History	27%	In 1857, this slave sues for his freedom but is told by the Supreme Court that he can not be a US citizen due to his race and status as property	Dred Scott	23%
Russian History	28%	This Russian ballet dancer emigrates to Canada in 1974	Mikhail Baryshnikov	23%