Statistics for 20th Century Events

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1912	This passenger liner strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic	RMS Titanic	82%
1928	Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers this antibiotic	Penicillin	77%
1957	The Soviet Union launches ________ 1 into space, the first artificial satellite	Sputnik	72%
1903	This race is held for the first time in France	Tour de France	72%
1921	This scientist is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics	Albert Einstein	69%
1999	This currency is first introduced in a non-physical form	Euro	69%
1972	Rugby players stranded in the Andes after a plane crash resort to this method of survival	Cannibalism	67%
1966	John Lennon asserts The Beatles are "more popular than _______"	Jesus	67%
1905	Japan shocks the Western world by defeating this European power in a war	Russia	67%
1906	This city is devastated by an earthquake	San Francisco	67%
1933	Construction begins on this famous bridge	Golden Gate Bridge	64%
1919	This country declares independence from Great Britain	Ireland	64%
1964	The US Surgeon General reports that this practice may be hazardous to health	Smoking	62%
1979	The Soviet Union invades this country	Afghanistan	59%
1950	This American senator accuses the State Department of being riddled with communists	Joseph McCarthy	59%
1934	London doctor Robert Kenneth Wilson photographs this creature, later proved to be a hoax	Loch Ness Monster	59%
1915	The German Navy sinks this passenger liner	RMS Lusitania	59%
1962	The first branch of this American retail outlet opens	Walmart	59%
1973	A coalition of Arab states attacks Israel during this Jewish religious festival	Yom Kippur	59%
1976	This company is founded in Los Altos, California	Apple	56%
1930	This country hosts and wins the inaugural FIFA World Cup	Uruguay	56%
1986	This space shuttle explodes shortly after take-off, killing the entire crew	Challenger	54%
1988	Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by terrorists above this village in Scotland	Lockerbie	54%
1948	This anti-imperialist pacifist activist is assassinated	Mahatma Gandhi	54%
1949	Facing widespread defeat by Communist forces, the government of the Republic of China retreats to this island	Taiwan	54%
1984	The creation of the first playable version of this popular Soviet video game	Tetris	54%
1940	This exiled revolutionary is assassinated in Mexico	Trotsky	54%
1901	Six British colonies unify as this new nation-state	Australia	51%
1911	An expedition led by this explorer becomes the first to reach the South Pole	Roald Amundsen	51%
1951	The first publication of this coming-of-age novel by J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	51%
1993	This New York landmark is bombed by Islamic terrorists	World Trade Center	51%
1953	James Watson and Francis Crick announce their discovery of the structure of DNA at this university	Cambridge	49%
1971	This director makes his feature-length debut with the film Duel	Steven Spielberg	49%
1917	The Russian Provisional Government is overthrown as Bolsheviks storm the _______ Palace	Winter	49%
1941	Germany invades the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation _________	Barbarossa	46%
1923	Adolf Hitler attempts a failed coup against the Bavarian government in the _________ Putsch	Beer Hall	46%
1992	This world leader vomits on the Prime Minister of Japan	George H.W. Bush	46%
1991	This NBA star publicly announces he is HIV positive	Magic Johnson	46%
1932	The infamous kidnapping and murder of this infant occurs in New Jersey	Charles Lindbergh Jr	44%
1942	This American general escapes the Philippines as the country falls to the Japanese	Douglas MacArthur	44%
1961	This writer commits suicide in Idaho	Ernest Hemingway	44%
1998	The ____________ Agreement largely brings an end to The Troubles in Northern Ireland	Good Friday	44%
1937	Picasso completes this painting depicting the horror of war	Guernica	44%
1914	World War I is sparked by this assassin	Gavrillo Princip	41%
1968	Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated in this city	Memphis	41%
1974	This American heiress is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army	Patty Hearst	38%
1902	This popular child's toy is first sold in the United States	Teddy bear	38%
1931	Millions are killed in widespread flooding in this country	China	36%
1958	The first of the _______ Wars, a confrontation over fishing rights, takes place between Iceland and the United Kingdom	Cod	36%
1927	This science fiction film by Fritz Lang debuts in Germany	Metropolis	33%
1981	John Hinckley Jr attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan to impress this actress	Jodie Foster	31%
1990	This military dictator is overthrown by invading American troops	Manuel Noriega	31%
1983	The finale of this television series becomes the most watched broadcast in American history	MAS*H	31%
1969	This astronaut remains in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon	Michael Collins	31%
1987	This singer-songwriter becomes the first female inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Aretha Franklin	28%
1947	This US Air Force test pilot becomes the first person to break the sound barrier	Chuck Yeager	28%
1965	The first US ground troops arrive in South Vietnam in this city	Da Nang	28%
1963	This man commits the first homicide to be broadcast live on television	Jack Ruby	28%
1977	This South African activist is killed in police custody	Steve Biko	28%
1935	This British military officer, diplomat and writer is killed in a motorcycle accident	T.E. Lawrence	28%
1982	TIME Magazine's Man of the Year Award goes to this inanimate object	The computer	28%
1989	This British computer scientist first proposes the system which becomes the foundation of the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	28%
1929	The debut of this children's adventure comic character	Tintin	28%
1994	This American company is founded under the initial name of Cadabra	Amazon	26%
1924	The first Winter Olympic Games is held at this French ski resort	Chamonix	26%
1943	Allied forces inflict a major defeat against Germany in this North African battle	El Alamein	26%
1945	American and Soviet troops meet at this river in Germany	Elbe	26%
1996	Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov loses a match to this computer	Deep Blue	23%
1920	This country becomes the first in the modern era to legalise abortion	Russia	23%
1936	This mammal goes extinct, the last specimen dying in a zoo	Tasmanian tiger	23%
2000	This financial bubble bursts	Dot-com bubble	21%
1959	This discharged US Marine defects to the Soviet Union	Lee Harvey Oswald	21%
1908	A large explosion thought to be caused by a meteor air burst occurs near this Siberian river	Tunguska	21%
1907	Oklahoma Territory and ______ Territory merge to create the state of Oklahoma	Indian	18%
1926	This nascent British company is nationalised	British Broadcasting Company	15%
1954	French forces suffer a catastrophic defeat at this battle in Vietnam	Dien Bien Phu	15%
1955	An Alabama jury acquits two white men of murdering this 14-year-old black boy	Emmett Till	15%
1997	Members of the Heaven's Gate cult commit mass suicide as this comet approaches Earth	Hale-Bopp	15%
1978	The Year of Three _______	Popes	15%
1913	This leather goods manufacturer is founded in Milan	Prada	15%
1918	This British war poet is killed in action a week before the signing of the armistice	Wilfred Owen	15%
1956	Elvis Presley enters the American music charts with this single	Heartbreak Hotel	13%
1925	This architect proposes demolishing central Paris and replacing it with a grid of modernist tower blocks	Le Corbusier	13%
1939	The _____________ Pact, a non-aggression treaty, is signed between Germany and the Soviet Union	Molotov-Ribbentrop	13%
1909	This US Navy officer leads the first successful (though disputed) expedition to the North Pole	Robert Peary	13%
1916	The British and French sign the secret ___________ Agreement to carve up the Arab part of the Ottoman Empire after the war	Sykes-Picot	13%
1922	This serialised modernist novel is first published as one volume	Ulysses	13%
1938	George Orwell publishes this account of his experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War	Homage to Catalonia	10%
1904	This opera premieres in Milan	Madam Butterfly	10%
1970	Separatist terrorists abduct and murder the deputy leader of this province	Quebec	10%
1960	Police massacre protesters at this South African township	Sharpeville	10%
1995	This doomsday cult perpetrates a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway	Aum Shinrikyo	8%
1985	This comic strip debuts in 35 American newspapers	Calvin and Hobbes	8%
1946	Zionist terrorists bomb this hotel in Jerusalem	King David Hotel	8%
1910	The Mexican Revolution begins after this president fraudulently "wins" re-election	Porfirio Diaz	8%
1980	This amputee athlete begins his Marathon of Hope across Canada	Terry Fox	8%
1952	The ___________ Comet, the world's first commercial jetliner, enters service	de Havilland	5%
1967	This Australian prime minister goes missing and is declared dead	Harold Holt	5%
1975	This American cargo ship is seized by the Khmer Rouge off Cambodia	Mayaguez	3%
1944	This Nazi concentration camp is the first to be liberated by advancing Allied forces	Majdanek	0%