Statistics for 250 Years, 250 Events

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Years	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2016	This controversial businessman is elected U.S. president	Donald Trump	96%
2009	First Afro-American U.S. president	Barack Obama	93%
2006	Planet which loses its status, now a dwarf planet	Pluto	92%
2017	This North Korean leader threatens to nuke Guam	Kim Jong-un	91%
1982	First nation to have more than 1 billion people	China	90%
1939	Nazi Germany attacks this country	Poland	89%
1963	This civil rights activist delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech	Martin Luther King Jr.	88%
1952	This English monarch becomes Queen	Elizabeth II.	86%
1974	This U.S. president resigned the presidency	Richard Nixon	86%
1991	This superpower collapses	Soviet Union	86%
1912	This ocean liner sinks after hitting an iceberg	RMS Titanic	83%
2000	Russian politician who becomes de-facto leader	Vladimir Putin	83%
1960	This man becomes the youngest to serve as President of the U.S.	John F. Kennedy	82%
1901	This English Queen dies	Queen {Victoria}	81%
1924	The founder of the Soviet Union dies	Vladimir Lenin	81%
1997	The U.K. hands over this territory to China	Hong Kong	80%
1930	Uruguay wins the first .....	FIFA World Cup	79%
2005	This well-known video sharing website starts	YouTube	79%
1889	This Parisian tower becomes the tallest building in the world	Eiffel Tower	78%
1959	The last state to be admitted to the Union so far	Hawaii	78%
1957	This terrorist is born in Riyadh	Osama bin Laden	78%
1931	This NYC skyscraper becomes the tallest building in the world	Empire State Building	77%
1926	This Cuban revolutionary is born	Fidel Castro	77%
1914	Gavrilo Princip assassinate this Archduke	Franz Ferdinand of Austria	77%
1950	War between the communist north and the capitalist south	{Korean} War	77%
1973	The queen opens this world-famous Sydney building	Sydney Opera House	77%
1976	Founding Father of China dies	Mao Zedong	76%
2001	This encyclopedia goes online	Wikipedia	76%
1944	On 20 July, Claus von Stauffenberg attempts to assassinate ...	Adolf Hitler	75%
1947	This famous Chicago gangster dies	Al Capone	75%
1996	Rapper fatally shot in Las Vegas	Tupac Shakur	75%
1922	Howard Carter discovers this Egyptian Pharao	Tutankhamun	75%
1903	The Wright brothers are the first with a successful...	Airplane	74%
2015	The U.S. restores diplomatic relations with this country	Cuba	74%
1906	This California city is strucked by an earthquake	San Francisco	74%
1860	This Great Emancipator becomes the first Republican president	Abraham Lincoln	73%
1896	First modern Olympic Games are held here	Athens	73%
1929	Great economic crisis that started after the U.S. stock market crash	Great Depression	73%
1888	Best known unidentified serial killer of London	Jack the Ripper	73%
1925	This autobiographical book by Hitler is published	Mein Kampf	73%
1994	This happens in Rwanda	Genocide	72%
1812	Napoleon fails to conquer this city	Moscow	72%
1932	Ibn Saud found this country (the name appears in the country name)	Saudi Arabia	72%
1934	Hitler calls himself now ....	Führer	71%
1992	Racial riots in this U.S. city	Los Angeles	70%
1920	Term for the ban on the production and sale of alcohol in the U.S.	Prohibition	70%
1936	Guerra Civil Española, in English	Spanish Civil War	70%
1923	Mustafa Atatürk declares the independence of his country	Turkey	70%
1913	The Australians begin with the construction of their new capital	Canberra	69%
1859	On the Origin of Species is published by this biologist	Charles Darwin	69%
1980	Mark David Chapman assassinates this Liverpudlian	John Lennon	69%
1907	This nation joins the 'Entente Cordiale' making it the 'Triple Entente'	Russian Empire	69%
1969	This music festival is held at a New York farm	Woodstock	69%
1966	This country wins its first FIFA World Cup	England	68%
1868	The Meiji Restoration happens in this country	Japan	68%
1918	The Armistice of Compiègne ends this war on 11 November	World War I	68%
1940	He has nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat	Winston Churchill	67%
1872	The U.S. founds its first national park	{Yellowstone} National Park	67%
2008	Olympic Games location	Beijing	66%
2004	What kills 250,000 people on Boxing Day?	Earthquake / Tsunami	65%
1972	Attack during the Olympics in this city	Munich	65%
1971	This country receives its independence from Pakistan	Bangladesh	64%
1993	This nation gets its independence from Ethiopia	Eritrea	64%
1979	Revolution in this Asian country	Iran	64%
1948	David Ben-Gurion declares the independence of his country	Israel	64%
1978	This man becomes the first Pole to be Bishop of Rome (Pope)	John Paul II	64%
1968	The Summer Olympics are held in this city	Mexico City	64%
1988	This Soviet statesman is visiting NYC	Mikhail Gorbachev	64%
1917	The last Emperor of Russia abdicated	Nicholas II	64%
1857	The Queen decides to make this city the capital of Canada	Ottawa	64%
1911	Roald Amundsen becomes the first person to reach this	South Pole	64%
1961	First man in space	Yuri Gagarin	64%
1975	The fall of this city ends the Vietnam War	Saigon	63%
1958	This French general founds the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle	62%
2014	The Olympic Winter Games are held here	Sochi	62%
1986	Space shuttle which broke up 73 seconds after take-off	Challenger	61%
2010	33 miners are found alive after a huge rescue operation in this country	Chile	61%
1953	He is sworn in as 34th POTUS	Dwight D. Eisenhower	61%
1937	German zeppelin catches fire in Lakehurst, NJ	LZ 129 'Hindenburg'	61%
1845	This event will kill 1 million Irish during the next seven years	Great Famine	60%
1983	Official beginning of this world-wide communication network	Internet	59%
1776	This country declares its independence	United States of America	59%
1877	The prestigious tennis tournament is held for the first time	Wimbledon Championships	59%
1910	Dom Manuel II is the last king of this country	Portugal	58%
1941	A date which will live in ....	Infamy	57%
1933	This German state is dissolved	{Weimar} Republic	57%
1989	Tim Berners-Lee invents this part of the Internet	World Wide Web	57%
1833	The British re-establish their rule on these islands, which displeased Argentina	Falkland Islands	56%
1949	This Federal Republic is founded	Germany	56%
1854	This party is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin	{Republican} Party	56%
1773	This 'party' happens in Boston	Tea Party	56%
1815	Napoleon vs. Wellesley	Battle of {Waterloo}	55%
1863	The bloodiest battle during the American Civil War is fought near this town	Gettysburg	55%
1849	What happened in 1849 in California?	Gold Rush	54%
1873	This type of pants is patented	Jeans	54%
1965	Human rights activist assassinated in Manhattan	Malcolm X	54%
1793	This French Queen is beheaded	Marie Antoinette	54%
1942	Decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII	Battle of {Midway}	53%
1818	Mary Shelley publishes this horror novel	Frankenstein	53%
1866	This Welsh surveyor (after whom the highest mountain was named) dies	George Everest	53%
1803	The U.S. doubles its area by buying this territory	Louisiana	53%
1801	He becomes 3rd President of the United States	Thomas Jefferson	53%
1789	The storming of this prison started the French Revolution	Bastille	52%
1830	This country declares its independence from the Netherlands	Belgium	52%
1844	This country declares its independence from Haiti	Dominican Republic	52%
1956	Revolution in this European country	Hungary	52%
1998	This Cambodian politician dies	Pol Pot	52%
1945	What V-E-Day means	Victory in Europe Day	52%
1927	First aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris	Charles Lindbergh	51%
1905	This English football team is founded in London	Chelsea F.C.	51%
1904	This is the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree	Helen Keller	51%
1883	This Indonesian volcano erupts (36,000 deaths)	Krakatoa	51%
1899	This war breaks out in South Africa	{Second} {Boer} War	51%
1791	This Austrian composer dies aged 35	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	51%
2007	Name a country which joined the EU in 2007	Bulgaria or Romania	50%
1798	The Helvetic Republic is installed on territory of this present-day country	Switzerland	49%
1955	Collective defense treaty among the USSR and its satellite states	Warsaw Pact	49%
1943	Bloodiest battle in the history of warfare	Battle of {Stalingrad}	48%
1990	This socialist state dissolves	East Germany	48%
2011	Nuclear disaster caused by an earthquake / tsunami	Fukushima	47%
1987	Zimbabwean who becomes President	Robert Mugabe	47%
1832	Ecuador annexes these islands	Galápagos Islands	46%
1885	LaMarcus Adna Thompson obtains a patent for this type of amusement ride	Roller coaster	45%
1796	Edward Jenner is using vaccine for this disease	Smallpox	45%
1890	This German chancellor is removed	Otto von Bismarck	44%
1813	Jane Austen publishes this romance novel	Pride and Prejudice	44%
1807	This famous Confederate general is born in Virginia	Robert E. Lee	44%
1898	This conflict starts due to sinking of the USS Maine	{Spanish}-{American} War	44%
1999	This man becomes president of Venezuela	Hugo Chávez	43%
1802	He becomes French consul for life	Napoleon Bonaparte	43%
1915	German U-Boot U-20 torpedoes this ocean liner	RMS Lusitania	43%
2003	The U.S. arrests this former President	Saddam Hussein	43%
1847	Brigham Young founds this city	Salt Lake City	43%
1897	This guy becomes 25th President of the United States	William McKinley	43%
1787	First U.S. state to ratify the Constitution	Delaware	42%
1967	War between Israel and Egypt	{Six-Day} War	42%
1770	A massacre is happening in this U.S. city	Boston	41%
1850	This U.S. state becomes the 31st state	California	41%
1790	The Residence Act creates this planned capital	Washington, D.C.	41%
1836	Pivotal event in the Texas Revolution	Battle of the {Alamo}	40%
1887	Most widely spoken constructed language is created	Esperanto	40%
1900	What is held in Paris (NOT the Olympic Games)	Exposition Universelle	40%
1884	European colonization and trade in Africa is regulated in this conference	{Berlin} Conference	39%
1874	This Italian inventor, known for his radio, is born in Bologna	Guglielmo Marconi	39%
1881	This president is assassinated	James A. Garfield	39%
1779	This explorer dies on the Sandwich Islands	James Cook	39%
1840	The Treaty of Waitangi creates this country	New Zealand	39%
1848	Many of these happen in Europe	Revolutions	39%
1821	Napoleon dies on this island	Saint Helena	39%
1891	The longest railway in the world is now under construction	{Trans}-{Siberian} Railway	39%
1892	This politican becomes US president for the second time (non-consecutive)	Grover Cleveland	38%
1809	He becomes 4th President of the United States	James Madison	38%
1786	Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard are the first to climb this mountain	Mont Blanc	38%
1970	Shootings happen at this Ohio university	Kent State	37%
1865	This alpine mountain is climbed for the first time	Matterhorn	37%
1846	Johann Galle becomes the first man to see this astronomical body	Neptune	37%
1938	Term used to describe the annexation of Austria	Anschluss	36%
1853	This conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire breaks out	{Crimean} War	36%
1811	This English king serves as Prince Regent during his father's illness	George IV	35%
1876	Battle commonly referred to as "Custer's Last Stand"	Battle of the {Little} {Bighorn}	34%
1916	Largest and longest battle of the First World War between France and Germany	Battle of {Verdun}	34%
1908	This MLB team will wait 108 years until they'll win the World Series again	Chicago Cubs	34%
1794	France abolishes this	Slavery	34%
1781	William Herschel discovers this astronomical body	Uranus	34%
1851	This London palace is built for the first World's Fair	{Crystal} Palace	33%
1870	The first white sees this impressing geyser located in Western U.S.	Old Faithful	33%
1921	This republican becomes U.S. president	Warren G. Harding	33%
1981	This Egyptian is killed	Anwar Sadat	32%
1935	Three laws that were set into practice in Germany	{Nuremberg} Laws	32%
1819	Gran Colombia is founded and reigned by this president	Simón Bolívar	32%
1783	This treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire and the United States	Treaty of {Paris}	32%
1919	This Asian country is the only one becoming its independence in 1919	Afghanistan	31%
1788	The First Fleet arrives in this country	Australia	31%
1797	Ludovico Manin is the last ... of Venice	Doge	31%
1804	This Latin American country becomes to first to declare its independence	Haiti	31%
1820	This ancient Greek statue is discovered on the island of Milos	Venus de Milo	31%
1841	He was the first U.S president to die in office	William Henry Harrison	31%
1894	Political scandal in France (antisemitism)	{Dreyfus} affair	29%
1951	American couple sentenced to death because of telling secret nuclear plans	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg	29%
1954	Where a soccer miracle happens	Bern	28%
1861	This nation declares its independence from the United States	Confederate States of America	28%
2002	This nation is the first one to become independent in 21st century	East Timor	28%
1946	This war begins in the former French colonies of Southeast Asia	{First} {Indochina} War	28%
1871	He said "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"	Henry Morton Stanley	28%
1768	This island falls under French rule	Corsica	27%
1785	This country starts to control the island of Saint-Barthélemy	Sweden	27%
1780	This secret network of routes used by slaves who want their freedom is founded	Underground Railroad	27%
1824	Ludwig van Beethoven's final complete symphony	Symphony {No. 9}	26%
1814	This song is written by Francis Scott Key	The Star-Spangled Banner	26%
1775	The Battles of Lexington and Concord are part of this war	{American} {Revolutionary} War	25%
1806	Construction for this Paris monument begins	Arc de Triomphe	25%
1984	This country becomes the last Western European one to allow women's vote	Liechtenstein	24%
1827	This animal called Zarafa arrives in Europe (the first since 300 years)	Giraffe	23%
2012	This ship runs aground off the Tuscan coast	Costa Concordia	22%
1805	These explorers reach the Pacific Ocean	Lewis and Clark	22%
1880	This Cologne monument is completed	Cologne {Cathedral}	21%
1799	This pivotal event in European history comes to an end	French Revolution	21%
1964	This incident leads to the Vietnam War	{Gulf} {of} {Tonkin} incident	21%
1795	On July 14, this song becomes the new French anthem	La Marseillaise	21%
1822	The Grue Church fire disaster is the deadliest in this country	Norway	21%
1828	B & O becomes the first ... in the United States	Railroad	20%
1995	A terrible massacre is happening in this Bosnian village	Srebrenica	20%
1928	The Winter Olympics are held in this Swiss village	St. Moritz	20%
1862	Bloodiest single-day battle in American history	Battle of {Antietam} / {Sharpsburg}	19%
1875	Georges Bizet publishes his most successful work	Carmen	19%
1834	William Lyon Mackenzie becomes the first mayor of this city	Toronto	19%
1985	Brussels stadium disaster	{Heysel} disaster	18%
1825	The Stephenson brothers invent this steam vehicle	Locomotive	18%
1823	U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas	Monroe Doctrine	18%
1856	Workers find very old human bones in this German valley	Neandertal	18%
1895	This German physicist discovers the X-rays	Wilhelm Röntgen	18%
1869	This U.S. state becomes the first one to allow women to vote	Wyoming	18%
1839	Slave revolt on this ship (you might know the 1997 Spielberg film)	La Amistad	17%
1837	26th state admitted to the Union	Michigan	17%
1771	Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers this very important element	Oxygen	17%
1977	The deadliest accident in aviation history happens on this island	Tenerife	17%
1843	This world-famous Copenhagen amusement park opens	Tivoli Gardens	17%
1909	This famous cycling race is organized for the first time	Giro d'Italia	15%
1886	This Bavarian 'Märchenkönig' dies in the Starnberger See	Ludwig II of Bavaria	15%
1962	Most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church	{Second} {Vatican} Council	15%
1778	This famous Milan theater is inaugurated	La Scala	14%
1879	This Scottish bridge collapses	{Tay} Bridge	14%
2013	A big meteor passed this Russian city	Chelyabinsk	13%
1816	This state becomes the 19th to be admitted to the Union	Indiana	13%
1784	This U.S. state (nowadays northeastern Tennessee) is founded	State of Franklin	13%
1867	Name for the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire	Alaska Purchase	12%
1835	The "Great Moon Hoax" is published by this newspaper	The Sun	12%
1774	This author publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	10%
1855	First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel	{Bessemer}Process	8%
1829	Raphael Rivera finds this oasis and names it "the meadows"	Las Vegas	8%
1858	The Treaty of Tientsin ends this war	{Second} {Opium} War	8%
1817	Name an element which was discovered in 1817	Cadmium, Selenium or Lithium	7%
1864	Prussia vs. Denmark	{Second} {Schleswig} War	7%
1893	Karl May publishes this novels about Indians	Winnetou	7%
1777	This famous German mathematician is born	Carl Friedrich Gauss	5%
1882	The longest tunnel in the world opens in the Swiss mountains	{Gotthard} Tunnel	5%
1831	The inventor of Coca-Cola is born in Georgia	John Pemberton	5%
1772	Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec discovers this archipelago	{Kerguelen} Islands	5%
1902	Martinican volcano responsible for the worst volcanic disaster in 20th century	Mount Pelée	5%
1878	War on a Pacific island, killing around a third of the population	{Nauruan} {Tribal} War	4%
1792	The French National Guard storms this Palace	{Tuileries} Palace	4%
1838	This British island territory becomes the first one to allow women's votes	Pitcairn Islands	3%
1769	He becomes pope	Clement XIV	2%
1810	The Republic declares its independence but is annexed by the U.S. only a month later	Republic of West Florida	2%
1842	This hall of fame of German history opens	Walhalla	2%
1782	Last person to be executed in Europe for witchcraft	Anna Göldi	1%
1826	He becomes first president of Argentina	Bernardino Rivadavia	1%
1808	Two whalers can announce the existence of this very remote small Atlantic island	Bouvet Island	1%
1852	"Women and children first" is used for the first time on this ship	HMS Birkenhead	1%
1800	He is elected Bishop of Rome	Pius VII	1%