Statistics for Name the Year by Current Events

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Current Event	Year	% Correct
The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers	2001	100%
The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima	1945	95%
Germany invades Poland, sparking the beginning of World War II	1939	94%
The Berlin Wall falls	1989	94%
The Great Depression started	1929	92%
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo lead to the outbreak of the First World War	1914	91%
The Titanic hit and iceberg and sank	1912	90%
The United Kingdom officially leaves the European Union	2020	86%
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger	1955	74%
The first U.S. soldiers are killed in South Vietnam when guerrillas raid their living quarters near Saigon	1959	72%
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech	1963	72%
Women gain the right to vote in the US	1920	67%
The Syrian Civil War begins	2011	67%
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president	1994	64%
The Civil Rights Act is passed	1964	59%
The US rover, Curiosity lands on Mars	2012	53%