Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1900-1919

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1919	The 18th Amendment begins the Prohibition era when it banned the consumption of this	Alcohol	99%
1917	The United States joins this war upon learning of the Zimmerman Telegraph	World War I	97%
1903	The Wright Brothers test this invention for the first time at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina	Airplane	95%
1907	Theodore Roosevelt leads the effort on the construction of a canal in this country	Panama	93%
1918	A soldier in Kansas falls ill, becoming the first confirmed case of this deadly pandemic	Spanish Flu	93%
1913	Henry Ford mass produces this automobile on an assembly line	Model T	89%
1902	The Electric Theatre in Los Angeles becomes the first to show these	Movies	88%
1914	This baseball player makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox	Babe Ruth	87%
1905	This city of vice is founded in the Mojave Desert	Las Vegas	86%
1906	3,000 people are killed after an earthquake and subsequent fire destroy this city	San Francisco	85%
1910	This paternal holiday is first observed in Spokane, Washington	{Father's} Day	83%
1901	Theodore Roosevelt becomes president following the assassination of this president	William McKinley	80%
1909	Robert Peary claims to be the first person to reach this place	North Pole	76%
1915	128 Americans die after this ship is sunk by a German U-boat	RMS {Lusitania}	76%
1904	This city hosts the third modern Olympic Games	St. Louis	66%
1912	This state becomes the last to be admitted in the contiguous U.S.	Arizona	65%
1908	After defeating the Detroit Tigers, this team wouldn't win another World Series until 2016	Chicago Cubs	63%
1900	A hurricane kills between 6,000 and 12,000 in this Texas city	Galveston	60%
1911	The Supreme Court declares this company to be a monopoly and has it broken up	Standard Oil	55%
1916	John J. Pershing hunts this Mexican revolutionary after he raided a New Mexico town	Pancho Villa	51%