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Year	Hint		Answer	% Correct
1859	This scientist publishes his book On the Origin of Species	D	Charles Darwin	98%
1820	This continent is discovered	A	Antarctica	96%
1845–1849	This country suffers from the Great Famine caused by a shortage of potatoes	I	Ireland	96%
1896	This sports event is revived in Athens	O	Olympic Games	96%
1865	John Wilkes Booth assassinates this President	L	A. Lincoln	95%
1846	Mormons migrate to this state	U	Utah	95%
1839	This kingdom is declared with its first king being Leopold I	B	Belgium	94%
1804	This country gains independence from France becoming the first black republic	H	Haiti	94%
1872	This region becomes the first national park	Y	Yellowstone	91%
1885	King Leopold II of B establishes this African country as a personal fiefdom	C	Congo Free State	90%
1833	This practice is banned throughout the British Empire	S	Slavery	81%
(1869)	Leo Tolstoy publishes this novel	W	War and Peace	81%
1883	This volcano in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) erupts	K	Krakatoa	80%
1840	New Zealand is founded as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the British and...	M	The {Māori}	80%
1814	Napoleon is exiled to this island	E	Elba	79%
1895	This team sport is invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts	V	Volleyball	76%
1890s	The British Empire controls this part of the world's population	Q	1 quarter	73%
1892	This method of identification is officially adopted for the first time	F	Fingerprinting	69%
1842	This treaty cedes Hong Kong to the British: Treaty of _______	N	Nanking	62%
1831–1850	The name for the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans	T	{Trail} {of} {Tears}	61%
1891	Rerum novarum, a major document on social justice, is launched by this pope	X	Pope Leo {XIII}	60%
1885	Louis Pasteur creates the first successful vaccine against this viral disease	R	Rabies	60%
1843	This inventor of the detective fiction publishes The Tell-Tale Heart	P	E. A. Poe	54%
1808, 1832	This German writer publishes his magnum opus Faust	G	J. W. von Goethe	53%
1898	This French author writes J'accuse…!, a letter where he opposes antisemitism and supports the falsely accused A. Dreyfus	Z	Émile Zola	42%
1830	The House of Bourbon is replaced by the House of Orléans (the ____ Monarchy) following this French Revolution	J	July Revolution	27%