Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 2000-2019

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2016	This controversial celebrity and businessman is elected president of the United States	Donald Trump	99%
2009	This senator is inaugurated as the first black president of the United States	Barack Obama	98%
2011	Navy SEALS kills this Al-Qaeda leader in a Pakistani compound	Osama bin Laden	93%
2001	Al-Qaeda terrorists fly two planes into the World Trade Center and a third into this building	Pentagon	93%
2013	3 are killed and 260 are injured when 2 bombs are detonated during this city's annual marathon	Boston	92%
2019	Denmark rejects a semi-serious offer from the U.S. to buy this territory	Greenland	92%
2003	The U.S. invades this country, falsely claiming it to be harboring WMDs	Iraq	92%
2005	This hurricane kills 1,836 people along the Gulf Coast, primarily in Louisiana	Katrina	90%
2012	Colorado and Washington become the first states to legalize this	Marijuana	89%
2000	This former VP loses the presidency to George W. Bush by less than 600 votes in Florida	Al Gore	86%
2007	This California representative becomes the first female Speaker of the House	Nancy Pelosi	82%
2015	This New England Patriots quarterback is accused of deflating footballs to cheat	Tom Brady	75%
2018	81 die and the city of Paradise, California is destroyed due to this type of disaster	Wildfire	75%
2008	This super hero movie is released, the first of the MCU	Iron Man	74%
2006	This Vice President accidentally shoots a lawyer while hunting in south Texas	Dick Cheney	73%
2014	12,000 people suffer from lead poisoning due to contamination in this city's water supply	Flint	72%
2017	A mass shooting at a country music festival in this city becomes the deadliest in the U.S.	Las Vegas	71%
2004	This state becomes the first to license and recognize same-sex marriages	Massachusetts	61%
2002	The Winter Olympics are held in this city	Salt Lake City	61%
2010	This oil rig explodes off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 and contaminating the Gulf of Mexico	{Deepwater} Horizon	43%