Statistics for 20th Century: An Event a Year Part 1

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Year	What Happened	Answer	% Correct
1912	This unsinkable ship sinks.	Titanic	98%
1901	This British monarch dies after 63 years on the throne.	Queen Victoria	93%
1922	This leader, known otherwise as Il Duce, forms Italy's first National Fascist government this year.	Benito Mussolini	90%
1914	This Archduke is murdered by a Serbian nationalist, bringing in the inevitable World War I.	Franz Ferdinand	90%
1948	Thirty-one years after Britain's endorsement of a Jewish national home in Palestine, Ben-Guiron becomes the first prime minister of this country.	Israel	90%
1905	Following a referendum, this Scandinavian country gets independence from Sweden.	Norway	90%
1941	360 Japanese fighters bombers and torpedo planes are launched in a surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet, sinking five battleships and 14 other ships.	Pearl Harbor	88%
1950	The north and south of this country declare themselves independent republics, bringing in this war. The north were supported by China and the USSR and the south were largely supported by the USA and the United Nations.	Korean War	85%
1907	This Indian lawyer announces that he intends to break a new law imposed by the government of Transvall which requires all Indians to be finger-printed and carry a special certificate.	Mohandas Gandhi	83%
1917	This Tsar steps down, effectively ending the House of Romanov.	Nicholas II	83%
1937	This giant German airship explodes and bursts into blames on May 6th, claiming the lives of 33 people.	Hindenburg	80%
1924	This restless revolutionary dies this year, causing a scramble for power between Stalin and Trotsky.	Vladimir Lenin	80%
1932	This New Deal president wins by landslide.	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	78%
1947	This Asian country achieves independence, making Lord Louis Mountbatten its last Viceroy.	India	78%
1927	This 26 year old pilot wins $25,000 after achieving the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic.	Charles Lindbergh	73%
1936	A Civil war breaks out in this country, to be won by Nationalists in 1939.	Spain	73%
1940	The UK is devastated by the Luftwaffe, causing London to lose many famous landmarks.	The Blitz	73%
1904	This deaf and blind American graduates with honours from Radcliffe College, USA.	Helen Keller	68%
1945	This German city is devastated by 800 Bomber Command Lancasters, compounded by 400 American Flying Fortesses the following day. Up to 130,000 died. So it goes.	Dresden	66%
1931	The Japanese invade this region of China.	Manchuria	66%
1933	The new chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, blames Marinus van der Lubbe, a communist for a blaze which burnt out this building. Rumours believed that the fire was started by the Nazis themselves in order to curtail personal and political liberties.	Reichstag	66%
1900	A citizen led uprising against the abundance of foreign powers in China. The foreign powers forced China to execute its rebels.	The Boxer Rebellion	66%
1944	Otherwise known as Operation Neptune; the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control	D-Day	63%
1906	With James Keir Hardie as its leader, this new Socialist political party win 29 seats in the UK general election.	Labour	63%
1935	A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. 70,000 refugees flee.	The Dust Bowl	63%
1902	This founder of the British South Africa Company and 'founder' of Rhodesia dies.	Cecil Rhodes	61%
1938	Jewish shops and homes are ransacked and 35,000 Jews are arrested throughout the Reich in this famous pogrom.	Kristallnacht	61%
1939	This port city was annexed by the Germans on the first day of World War II, ending the separation of East Prussia and the rest of Germany.	Danzig	59%
1903	578 die in a fire in the Iroquois theatre in this US city.	Chicago	56%
1926	This painter of 'Water Lilies' dies this year.	Claude Monet	56%
1928	This Quaker wins the US relection with an easy victory. He would inherit America's failing economy the following year.	Herbert Hoover	56%
1916	A Nationalist uprising is staged in this country after seeking support in the form of 20,000 German-supplied weapons. Sir Roger Casement is executed and a large number of Nationalists are interned in prison camps by the British.	Ireland	56%
1909	This Apache chief dies. He had led the Apaches from New Mexico in their final uprising against the Americans from the east in 1882.	Geronimo	54%
1911	On the edge of a steep cliff Dr Hiram Bingham, a Yale explorer, discovers this ancient city biult around 1500 AD.	Machu Picchu	54%
1942	The largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.8–2 million killed, wounded or captured) battle in the history of warfare.	The Battle of Stalingrad	54%
1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald captures both the spirit and anomie of The Jazz Era in this novel.	The Great Gatsby	54%
1919	Woodrow Wilson is instrumental in drawing up the 14 points of this war settlement treaty with the intention of initating a League of Nations.	Treaty of Versailles	54%
1910	This British monarch dies after a short reign to be succeeded by his son George V.	Edward VII	49%
1934	90,000 troops of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Red Army break out of a Nationalist blokage and begin a trek in search of refuge through some of the least hospitable terrain in the world.	The Long March	49%
1913	A race to the South Pole led by this explorer goes horribly wrong, causing the determined crew to die on their return journey.	Robert Falcon Scott	44%
1943	The largest tank battle in history, involving some 6,000 tanks, 2,000,000 troops, and 4,000 aircraft. The decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front	The Battle of Kursk	41%
1929	Prices on the American stock market suddenly fall, wiping out millions of dollars of investments at a stroke.	Wall Street Crash	41%
1949	This Chinese chairman resigns and calls for both an armistice and a ceasefire.	Chiang Kai-shek	37%
1923	This economic phenomenon sees the value of the German Mark spiral uncontrollably, causing workers to be paid twice a day and a loaf of bread to cost what a house had been worth that same morning.	Hyperinflation	37%
1918	Fighting ceases on the Western front on this historic day.	November 11	34%
1908	This two year old becomes Emperior of China, with his father Prince Chun acting as regent.	Pu Yi	29%
1921	Clergymen and doctors are in uproar as this female doctor opens the first brith control clinic in London.	Dr Marie Stopes	17%
1915	This British writer of "The Soldier" dies blood-poisoning on board a French hospital ship.	Rupert Brooke	17%
1946	This British philosopher and mathematician publishes his History of Western Philosophy.	Bertrand Russell	15%
1930	Mohandas Gandhi is arrested after he launches this campaign of civil disobedience.	Satyagraha	7%
1920	This prohibition act takes effect this year, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States.	Volstead Act	7%