Year | Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1901 | First _____ Prizes awarded | Nobel | 98%
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1923 | The Walt ______ company is formed | Disney | 97%
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1927 | World population reaches two _______ | Billion | 95%
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1904 | Construction of the ______ Canal begins | Panama | 95%
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1959 | World population reaches _ billion | 3 | 94%
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1974 | World population reaches _ billion | 4 | 94%
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1961 | Construction of the ______ Wall | Berlin | 94%
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1959 | Cuban revolution led by Fidel ______ | Castro | 94%
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1929 | Wall Street crash and beginning of the Great __________ | Depression | 92%
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1963 | Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a _____" speech | Dream | 92%
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1952 | Queen _________ II becomes Monarch of the Commonwealth realms | Elizabeth | 92%
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1903 | The first Tour de ______ is held | France | 92%
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1922 | The province of Northern _______ is created within the United Kingdom | Ireland | 92%
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1924 | Death of Vladimir _____ triggers power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin | Lenin | 92%
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1922 | March on Rome brings Benito _________ to power in Italy | Mussolini | 91%
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1953 | Elvis _______'s musical career is launched | Presley | 91%
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1987 | World population reaches _ billion | 5 | 89%
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1947 | Independence of _____ and Pakistan | India | 89%
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1935 | Persia becomes ____ | Iran | 89%
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1903 | First flight of the ______ Brothers | Wright | 89%
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1937 | ____ _____ and the Seven Dwarfs is the first feature-length animated movie released | Snow White | 88%
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1919 | The Treaty of __________ redraws European borders | Versailles | 88%
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1959 | Admission of Alaska and ______ into the United States | Hawaii | 86%
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1962 | Cuban _______ crisis | Missile | 86%
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1945 | World War II ends, United _______ is founded | Nations | 86%
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1959 | Beginning of the _______ War | Vietnam | 86%
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1979 | Implementation of China's one-_____ policy | Child | 84%
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1991 | Dissolution of the ______ Union, and independence of 15 former ______ republics | Soviet | 84%
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1922 | Howard Carter discovers ___________'s tomb | Tutankhamen | 84%
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1971 | Completion of the World _____ Centre | Trade | 83%
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1999 | World population reaches _ billion | 6 | 81%
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1997 | Princess _____ is killed in a car accident in Paris | Diana | 81%
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1939 | End of Spanish Civil War, Francisco ______ becomes dictator of Spain | Franco | 81%
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1964 | The Civil ______ Act abolishes segregation in the USA | Rights | 81%
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1922 | The ____, the world's first officially Communist state, is formed | USSR | 81%
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1931 | The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao ______ | Zedong | 81%
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1949 | Creation of North ________ Treaty Organisation | Atlantic | 80%
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1927 | ________ becomes first Emperor of Japan | Hirohito | 80%
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2000 | Vladimir _____ becomes President of Russia | Putin | 80%
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1973 | Beginning of the _________ scandal | Watergate | 80%
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1917 | _______ Revolution ends the _______ Empire | Russian | 78%
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1981 | Wedding of Prince _______ and Princess Diana | Charles | 77%
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1947 | Creation of the US Central ___________ Agency | Intelligence | 77%
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1957 | Launch of _______ 1 and the beginning of the Space Age | Sputnik | 77%
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1985 | Mikhail _________ becomes Premier of the Soviet Union | Gorbachev | 75%
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1989 | Akihito becomes Emperor of _____ | Japan | 75%
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1961 | The Great ____ Forward ends in China, after the deaths of roughly 20 million people | Leap | 75%
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1940 | The _____ invade France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway | Nazis | 75%
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1938 | First appearance of DC Comics hero ________ | Superman | 73%
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1918 | Partitioning of the ________ Empire begins | Ottoman | 72%
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1920 | Mohandas ______ launches non-cooperation movement | Gandhi | 69%
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1997 | Transfer of sovereignty of ____ ____ from UK to China | Hong Kong | 69%
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1943 | The Battle of __________ ends with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German army | Stalingrad | 69%
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1994 | Kim Jong-__ becomes the Supreme Leader of North Korea | Il | 66%
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1928 | Discovery of __________ by Alexander Fleming | Penicillin | 66%
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1959 | First documented cases of ____ | AIDS | 63%
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1921 | Adolf Hitler becomes ______ of the Nazi Party | Fuhrer | 63%
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1991 | Boris _______ becomes the first President of Russia | Yeltsin | 63%
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1905 | Einstein creates formulation of __________ | Relativity | 61%
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1908 | First commercial _____ transmissions | Radio | 59%
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1976 | Steve Jobs initiates the birth of the _____ computer | Apple | 58%
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1992 | Maastricht Treaty creates the ________ Union | European | 58%
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1975 | The fall of ______ ends the Vietnam War | Saigon | 56%
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1937 | Japanese invasion of China, and the _______ Massacre | Nanking | 55%
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1997 | _____ barrier broken on land | Sound | 55%
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1913 | Ford introduces the first moving ________ line | Assembly | 53%
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1996 | _____ the sheep becomes the first successful cloned mammal | Dolly | 50%
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1912 | Republic of _____ is established, after the dissolution of the Empire | China | 48%
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1972 | The ______ Massacre occurs at the Summer Olympics | Munich | 48%
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1994 | Beginning of the _______ genocide | Rwandan | 47%
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1982 | Sony launches the world's first commercially sold __ Player | CD | 45%
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1914 | Gavrilo _______ assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Princip | 44%
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1913 | Niels ____ formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus, and in the process paves the way for quantum mechanics | Bohr | 42%
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1998 | ______ is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin | 42%
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1938 | The Great _____ ends in the Soviet Union | Purge | 38%
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1911 | Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic _______ | Nucleus | 34%
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1932 | ___ World Service starts broadcasting | BBC | 33%
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1985 | First use of ___ fingerprinting | DNA | 27%
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1986 | Challenger and _________ disasters | Chernobyl | 25%
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1952 | First scheduled flight by commercial ___ | Jet | 20%
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1992 | Discovery of the ______ belt and the first extrasolar planets | Kuiper | 20%
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1990 | Tim _______-___ invents the World Wide Web | Berners-Lee | 19%
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