Statistics for Historical Failures

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 59 times
(45 since last reset)
The average score is 13 of 25

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1912	This ship crashes into an iceberg, causing the deaths of over 1500 people	The Titanic	95%
-1250*	This Greek ruse is foolishly accepted by the people of Troy	Trojan Horse	92%
1998	This president states that he 'did not have sexual relations' with Ms. Lewinsky	Bill Clinton	89%
2016	Nearly 63 million Americans vote for this man to be their president	Donald Trump	89%
1986	This nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine melts down catastrophically	Chernobyl	84%
2003	George W. Bush attacks the whole of Iraq for actions by this sole dictator	Saddam Hussein	84%
1789*	Marie Antoinette allegedly declaims this phrase, starting the French Revolution	'Let them eat cake'	76%
1920	This period, intended to lower crime throughout the United States, begins	Prohibition	74%
1986	This NASA space shuttle tragically explodes 72 seconds into its flight	Challenger	71%
1978*	Emsley A. Laney High School cuts this future star from their basketball team	Michael Jordan	61%
1937	This luxury liner, filled with hydrogen, bursts into flames in New Jersey	The Hindenburg	58%
2018	This user creates a quiz about failures, thinking the comments won't be political	Aesthus	50%
1941	This German operation, intended to defeat Russia, backfires spectacularly	Barbarossa	50%
2016	Apple removes this useful component from its newest iPhone	Headphone jack	42%
1957	This company creates the Edsel, named for its founder's friend, which bombs	Ford	39%
2017	This Southern NFL team blows a 28-3 Super Bowl lead	Atlanta Falcons	37%
2012	Hillary Clinton blunders her way through this attack on U.S. forces in Libya	Benghazi attack	37%
1998	Bill Gates experiences this infamous error on his PC during a presentation	Blue Screen	37%
1898	The U.S. blames this ship's sinking on Spain, inciting a controversial war	The Maine	34%
1803	Napoleon sells this 828,000 square mile tract of land for 3 cents an acre	Louisiana Territory	29%
2016	This phone, created by Samsung, begins exploding at random	Note 7	29%
1930	Congress raises these taxes to slow the depression - but makes things worse	Tariffs	18%
2010	This oil rig explodes; six years later, a dramatized movie recounts the events	Deepwater Horizon	16%
2017	Apple removes this useful component from its newest iPhone	Home button	16%
1999	A metric/imperial err betwixt NASA and this company causes an orbiter to crash	Lockheed Martin	5%