Statistics for Events of Late January

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Date	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Jan. 17, 1964	This first lady is born in Chicago.	Michelle Obama	92%
Jan. 17, 1929	This comic-strip sailor makes his first appearance.	Popeye	89%
Jan. 24, 1848	Gold is discovered in this state.	California	85%
Jan. 20, 1953	This man becomes U.S. President.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	76%
Jan. 19, 1955	This classic crossword board game is put on the market.	Scrabble	75%
Jan. 20, 1930	Birthday of this man, the second to walk on the Moon.	Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin	74%
Jan. 19, 2006	Launch of “New Horizons,” a robotic spacecraft which will study this dwarf planet in 2015.	Pluto	74%
Jan. 27, 1756	This great classical composer is born in Salzburg, Austria.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	73%
Jan. 22, 1949	Communists led by this man take over Beijing.	Mao Tse-Tung	72%
Jan. 17, 1706	This printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat is born in Boston.	Benjamin Franklin	68%
Jan. 18, 1882	Birthday of A.A. Milne, who wrote Pooh stories for (and including) his son, ___________ _____.	Christopher Robin	67%
Jan. 24, 1865	The U.S. Congress passes the 13th Amendment, outlawing this institution.	Slavery	67%
Jan. 26, 1500	Spanish captain Vicente Pinzon becomes the first European to discover what would become this large South American country.	Brazil	65%
Jan. 23, 1737	Birthday of this man, who put his large signature on the Declaration of Independence.	John Hancock	58%
Jan. 18, 1813	Birthday of Joseph Glidden, inventor of this type of fencing which transformed the western U.S.	barbed wire	47%
Jan. 25, 1579	This low-lying European country becomes independent of Spain.	Netherlands	44%
Jan. 19, 1736	This man, creator of the first practical steam engine, is born in Scotland.	James Watt	43%
Jan. 31, 1919	Birthday of this man, who broke the color barrier in major league baseball.	Jackie Robinson	39%
Jan. 29, 1861	After much bloody confict, this plains state joins the Union.	Kansas	38%
Jan. 28, 1915	This branch of the U.S. armed forces is established.	Coast Guard	37%
Jan. 30, 1941	Birthday of this Vice President under George W. Bush.	Dick Cheney	37%
Jan. 31, 1958	The U.S. launches Explorer 1, its first _________.	satellite	36%
Jan. 21, 1824	Birthday of this important Confederate general, second only to Lee.	“Stonewall” Jackson	35%
Jan. 30, 1882	Birthday of this man, whose portrait is on the dime.	Franklin Roosevelt	31%
Jan. 26, 1837	This two-part state joins the Union.	Michigan	28%
Jan. 27, 1832	Birthday of this creator of the “Jabberwock.”	Lewis Carroll	26%
Jan. 30, 1862	This Union ironclad ship is launched.	USS Monitor	26%
Jan. 24, 1968	This Olympic gymnastic champion is born in West Virginia.	Mary Lou Retton	24%
Jan. 27, 1955	This U.S. Chief Justice is born in Indiana.	John Roberts, Jr.	20%