Statistics for This Month in History - March

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This quiz has been taken 69 times
The average score is 16 of 31

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Day	On this day in...	Answer	% Correct
1	1565, this famous Brazilian city is founded	Rio de Janeiro	95%
10	1876, this inventor makes the first telephone call	Alexander Graham Bell	80%
15	44 BC, this dictator is stabbed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	80%
16	1958, the Thunderbird is the 50 millionth automobile produced by this company	Ford	71%
9	1842, the first discovery of gold occurs here	California	69%
19	1931, gambling is legalized in this state	Nevada	69%
2	1946, this revolutionary is elected president of North Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh	67%
13	2013, the 266th Pope is elected	Francis	65%
31	1889, this famous Parisian landmark is opened	Eiffel Tower	62%
12	1930, this pacifist leads the Salt March	Mahatma Gandhi	62%
30	1853, this massively influential Dutch painter is born	Vincent van Gogh	62%
3	1991, a video of this man beaten by LAPD officers surfaces	Rodney King	60%
5	1770, Crispus Attucks and four other Americans are killed by British soldiers in this city	Boston	58%
28	1969, this famous American general and president passes away	Dwight Eisenhower	56%
27	1794, Denmark forms a neutrality agreement with this country	Sweden	55%
17	1941, the National Gallery of Art is opened in this city	Washington D.C.	55%
4	1980, this nationalist becomes first black PM of Zimbabwe	Robert Mugabe	51%
21	2006, this social media site is founded	Twitter	49%
14	1794, the cotton gin is patented by this inventor	Eli Whitney	47%
26	1812, an earthquake destroys this Venezuelan city	Caracas	45%
25	1807, the trade of this is banned in the British Empire	Slaves	42%
11	2004, train bombings here kill 191	Madrid	40%
18	1845, legendary American missionary and apple gardener dies	Johnny Appleseed	38%
20	1602, the Dutch East India Company is founded here	Amsterdam	35%
29	1947, the Malagasy Uprising occurs on this island	Madagascar	35%
24	1989, this tanker spills thousands of barrels of oil into Prince William Sound	Exxon Valdez	33%
23	1775, this Founding Father says "give me liberty or give me death!"	Patrick Henry	31%
22	1873, a law is passed to ban slavery on this American island territory	Puerto Rico	31%
8	1942, Japanese forces capture this Burmese city	Yangon	29%
7	1936, Germany reoccupies this area and violates the Treaty of Versailles	Rhineland	16%
6	1953, succeeds Stalin as leader of the USSR	Georgy Malenkov	2%