History Challenge
Results By Question
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# | Answer | TUH | # Correct | % Correct | Average Correct Celerity |
Std. Dev Celerity | Average Correct Score |
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1 | Haile Selassie I | 44 | 32 | 72.7% | .262 | .227 | 13.03 |
2 | Chicago, Illinois | 44 | 37 | 84.1% | .314 | .189 | 13.70 |
3 | Berlin | 44 | 32 | 72.7% | .125 | .213 | 11.44 |
4 | The Netherlands | 44 | 35 | 79.5% | .238 | .180 | 12.69 |
5 | Indiana | 44 | 36 | 81.8% | .289 | .245 | 13.28 |
6 | Golda Meir | 44 | 30 | 68.2% | .303 | .238 | 13.40 |
7 | John Peter Zenger | 44 | 18 | 40.9% | .226 | .156 | 12.61 |
8 | Salt March | 44 | 39 | 88.6% | .425 | .228 | 15.00 |
9 | Battle of Bosworth Field | 44 | 32 | 72.7% | .197 | .189 | 12.19 |
10 | Diocletian | 44 | 24 | 54.5% | .426 | .266 | 15.21 |
11 | KGB | 44 | 42 | 95.5% | .304 | .137 | 13.52 |
12 | Abel Tasman | 44 | 28 | 63.6% | .261 | .205 | 13.04 |
13 | Baltimore, Maryland | 44 | 40 | 90.9% | .320 | .283 | 13.80 |
14 | (lay) investiture controversy | 44 | 22 | 50.0% | .204 | .165 | 12.32 |
15 | Iraq | 44 | 38 | 86.4% | .269 | .206 | 12.95 |
16 | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 44 | 32 | 72.7% | .204 | .210 | 12.31 |
17 | governor of Texas | 44 | 43 | 97.7% | .274 | .252 | 13.07 |
18 | Argentina | 44 | 37 | 84.1% | .230 | .231 | 12.62 |
19 | John J(oseph) Pershing | 44 | 26 | 59.1% | .230 | .214 | 12.65 |
20 | Ptolemy | 44 | 32 | 72.7% | .390 | .257 | 14.62 |
21 | Hubert (Horatio) Humphrey | 44 | 25 | 56.8% | .162 | .101 | 11.64 |
22 | Hirohito | 44 | 40 | 90.9% | .347 | .198 | 14.12 |
23 | Thomas Hutchinson | 44 | 10 | 22.7% | .211 | .203 | 12.50 |
24 | Algeria | 43 | 29 | 67.4% | .268 | .166 | 13.03 |
25 | Bill Clinton | 43 | 40 | 93.0% | .284 | .207 | 13.20 |
26 | Shang Dynasty | 43 | 22 | 51.2% | .395 | .244 | 14.64 |
27 | King | 43 | 40 | 93.0% | .228 | .175 | 12.55 |
28 | Andrew Jackson | 43 | 38 | 88.4% | .258 | .196 | 12.92 |
29 | Charles Martel | 42 | 29 | 69.0% | .341 | .248 | 13.97 |
30 | Sydney | 42 | 34 | 81.0% | .142 | .240 | 11.50 |
31 | Monaco | 42 | 37 | 88.1% | .250 | .123 | 12.73 |
32 | Korematsu v. United States | 42 | 31 | 73.8% | .347 | .166 | 14.00 |
33 | Corinth | 42 | 27 | 64.3% | .291 | .301 | 13.37 |
34 | St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre | 42 | 26 | 61.9% | .353 | .222 | 14.08 |
35 | Herbert (Clark) Hoover | 42 | 37 | 88.1% | .190 | .177 | 11.97 |
36 | Hernán Cortés (de Monroy y Pizarro) | 42 | 39 | 92.9% | .169 | .185 | 11.77 |
37 | Clement Attlee | 42 | 26 | 61.9% | .239 | .155 | 12.54 |
38 | Guam | 42 | 32 | 76.2% | .178 | .201 | 11.91 |
39 | Saxony | 42 | 33 | 78.6% | .187 | .234 | 12.06 |
40 | Luddites | 42 | 29 | 69.0% | .212 | .185 | 12.31 |
41 | John Brown | 42 | 41 | 97.6% | .296 | .148 | 13.37 |
42 | Odessa | 42 | 20 | 47.6% | .375 | .229 | 14.35 |
43 | New Jersey | 42 | 40 | 95.2% | .249 | .203 | 12.82 |
44 | Armenian genocide | 42 | 34 | 81.0% | .343 | .232 | 13.94 |
45 | PRI | 42 | 19 | 45.2% | .439 | .240 | 15.16 |
46 | Greenback Party | 42 | 22 | 52.4% | .301 | .256 | 13.55 |
47 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 42 | 35 | 83.3% | .208 | .187 | 12.34 |
48 | Iceland | 42 | 29 | 69.0% | .380 | .210 | 14.55 |
49 | Timothy (Francis) Leary | 42 | 13 | 31.0% | .377 | .196 | 14.46 |
50 | Oxford | 42 | 31 | 73.8% | .217 | .279 | 12.58 |
Celerity is the fraction of the question that had not been read at the time of a buzz (for which a correct answer was provided). 1.000 is an immediate buzz, .500 is an answer given halfway through the question in terms of time on the sound recording, and .000 is an answer given at the very end.