Statistics for Only US, UK Events 1910-1929

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1928	Alexander Fleming discovers this group of antibiotics	Penicillin	100%
1918	Some members of this group of people are first allowed to vote in the UK	Women	94%
1925	After a "Monkey Trial", Tennessee biology teacher is fined for teaching this concept	Evolutionary Theory	88%
1913	This Californian desert place registers the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth	Death Valley	81%
1912	The United States acquires two new states. Name either one.	New Mexico, Arizona	81%
1922	F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes this story about a man who is born old, and dies as a baby.	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	81%
1917	Following the revelation of the Zimmerman Note, the United States declares war on this country	Germany	69%
1920	The League of Nations establishes a British mandate in this contested Middle Eastern region	Palestine	69%
1927	What does "The Jazz Singer" introduce to film?	Sound	69%
1926	Rudolph Valentino's death at 31 causes mass hysteria. What was his profession?	Actor	63%
1910	W.D. Boyce founds this youth organization	Boy Scouts of America	56%
1919	A match fixing scandal involving this team shocks the Major League Baseball	Chicago White Sox	56%
1921	The United Kingdom creates this province	Northern Ireland	56%
1914	Charlie Chaplin introduces this character to the world of film	The Tramp	56%
1911	The US Supreme Court dissolves this giant corporation, led by John D. Rockefeller	Standard Oil	44%
1923	This popular US president dies, before his legacy is forever tarnished by several scandals	Warren G. Harding	44%
1924	This swimmer, of ensuing "Tarzan" fame, wins three gold medals at the Olympic Games	Johnny Weissmuller	38%
1929	Publication of Virginia Woolf's feminist essay: "A ___ of One's Own"	Room	38%
1915	D.W. Griffith releases this technically groundbreaking but deeply racist epic film	The Birth of a Nation	31%
1916	The UK and France sign this treaty, which will draw borders in the Middle East	Sykes-Picot Agreement	19%