Statistics for History True or False

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Theodore Roosevelt created the U.S National Park System	True	86%
The Eiffel Tower was once the tallest structure in the world	True	85%
The first complex civilization in the world appeared around Iraq	True	82%
Cleopatra was Egypt's only queen	False	80%
The Protestant Reformation occurred in the 1500s	True	79%
France colonized Madagascar	True	77%
Humanity is believed to have begun in Ethiopia	True	77%
World War I in fact killed more people than World War II	False	76%
The Mongol Empire was the first empire to successfully take over Japan	False	76%
New Zealand was discovered by polynesians around 1200 AD	True	72%
Mount Vesuvius has not erupted since it destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.	False	68%
The Roman Empire began in Rome	True	68%
Minerva is the Roman version of the goddess Aphrodite	False	57%
Hinduism is the world's oldest known religion	False	57%
The Black Death is the world's worst influenza outbreak in recorded history	False	56%
67 people are believed to have died in the Boston Massacre	False	47%
James Watt invented the steam engine	False	40%
The British Empire built the Suez Canal	False	32%
Hungary was technically an Axis Power	False	21%
Communism never spread to South America	True	18%