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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012"	London Summer Olympics 2012	89%
"a major stratovolcano in southern Italy---which was one of the deadliest in European history"	Eruption of Mount Vesuvius	78%
"War---fought between North Korea and South Korea"	Korean War	78%
"an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America"	American Revolution	67%
"The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories"	United States' Civil War	67%
"was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State"	Irish Civil War	56%
"war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature"	Trojan War	56%
"an armed conflict from 2001 to 2021"	War in Afghanistan	56%
" at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record and is now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey"	Hurricane Katrina	44%
"was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions India and Pakistan"	The Partition	44%
" a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states"	Balkan Wars	33%
"a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador and Honduras"	Football War	33%
"a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe"	Great Peasants' War	33%
"an armed conflict---between the occupying colonialists of Spain and the-- Rifians people"	Rif War	33%
"a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign---in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States"	Civil Rights Movement	22%
"was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923"	October Revolution	22%
"the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end"	Victory over Japan Day	22%
"Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history"	Normandy landings	11%
"the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang"	Saint Valentine's Day Massacre	11%
"was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States"	Yalta Conference	11%
"led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by the island's majority Black African population."	Zanzibar Revolution	11%
"air raid --- by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu"	Doolittle Raid	0%
"With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, the flood killed 2,209 people and accounted for US$17,000,000 in damage"	Johnstown Flood	0%
"a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573"	Muromachi period	0%