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1. What happened in 1900? Friedrich Nietzsche died, King Umberto I of Italy was murdered by anarchists, William McKinley was re-elected President of the United States, and Sigmund Freud wrote this landmark work (in German, it was "Die Traumdeutung"). What was this book?
2. What happened in 1901? Queen Victoria died, Walt Disney was born, boxing became a legal sport in England, and this island, 90 miles off the coast of Florida, became an American protectorate. What is this island?
3. What happened in 1902? Teddy Roosevelt became the first American president to ride in an automobile, J.M. Bacon crossed the Irish Channel in a balloon, the (first) Aswan Dam opened in Egypt, and the first college football bowl game (in which the University of Michigan destroyed Stanford University 49-0) was played. What would this bowl game come to be called?
4. What happened in 1903? The first Tour de France was held, the Wright brothers flew a powered aircraft, George Bernard Shaw premiered "Man and Superman" and something was sold for the first time, at the price of five cents. What was it?
5. What happened in 1904? Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe, work began on the Panama Canal, Puccini revealed "Madame Butterfly" and a war broke out between two Asian powers. What war was it?
6. What happened in 1905? The Mount Wilson Observatory opened in California, women got the vote in Queensland, novocaine was introduced, and this scientist published his Special Theory of Relativity. Who was this scientist?
7. What happened in 1906? Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle", H.M.S. Dreadnought was launched, Mount Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples, and 3,000 people died when an earthquake hit this American city. What city was it?
8. What happened in 1907? New Zealand became a dominion within the British Empire, Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mother's Day was established as a holiday, and something happened in New York's Times Square for the first time. What was it?
9. What happened in 1908? Kenneth Grahame published "The Wind in the Willows", Henri Matisse coined the term 'cubism', London hosted the Olympics, and something happened in Russia that devastated over 800 miles of forest, destroyed 80 million trees and perturbed the atmosphere so much that stations in Great Britain detected it. What do we call this?
10. What happened in 1909? Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole, the NAACP was founded, Joan of Arc became a saint, and construction began on a ship that would become world-famous three years later. What was that ship?
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