Statistics for Were They Alive During This?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Was Adolf Hitler alive when Oscars were first awarded in Hollywood?	Yes	86%
Was Napoleon alive when the Wright brothers first flew an airplane?	No	85%
Was William Shakespeare alive during the Battle of Hastings?	No	84%
Was Britney Spears alive when the Berlin Wall fell?	Yes	84%
Was Martin Luther King Jr. alive when slavery was legal in the US?	No	82%
Was John Lennon alive when Hawaii became a US state?	Yes	82%
Was Jesus of Nazareth alive when Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii?	No	81%
Was Julius Caesar alive during the construction of Machu Picchu?	No	78%
Was Charles Dickens alive during the American Civil War?	Yes	77%
Was Queen Elizabeth II alive when the Titanic sank?	No	75%
Was Chairman Mao alive during the Industrial Revolution?	No	73%
Was Richard Nixon alive during the First World War?	Yes	72%
Was Leonardo da Vinci alive when Columbus landed in the Americas?	Yes	64%
Was Mahatma Gandhi alive when man landed on the moon?	No	56%
Were woolly mammoths alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built?	Yes	54%