Can you name the hard-to-spell words from 20th Century History? by OdysseusKelly

Can you name the hard-to-spell words from 20th Century History?

created by OdysseusKelly

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Clue	Answer
Normandy city almost completely destroyed by Allies on and following D-Day
Warren G. Harding's middle name
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Normandy city almost completely destroyed by Allies on and following D-Day
Normandy city almost completely destroyed by Allies on and following D-Day
Warren G. Harding's middle name
Warren G. Harding's middle name
Warren G. Harding's middle name
Warren G. Harding's middle name
Warren G. Harding's middle name
Warren G. Harding's middle name
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
'We will bury you' Soviet president Nikita
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin
Last name of Leon, William McKinley's assassin

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20th Century History Spelling Bee Quiz

by OdysseusKelly

Created Jul 18, 2011 in History
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	OdysseusKelly:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 01:36 GMT		1 point
	This is a new format I'm experimenting with, and am considering making a series. As far as I know, this format where one wrong letter can get you out has never been used before. Future quizzes will probably not have as difficult questions, and be more spelling-oriented than trivia-oriented. This idea came to me while I was working on what originally would have been an American history spelling quiz with no mines (I also changed its topic from America to the 20th Century shortly after starting), and as I kept going with it, I realized that the original idea, of combined trivia and spelling challenges, no longer fit in with the format, and I will have a less pronounced emphasis on trivia in future Spelling Bee quizzes, should I make them.

	ambition:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 03:11 GMT		1 point
	Sorry, but I hate the format. Make it so wrong answers just show up in red, not end the quiz.

	minneapolitan:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 03:18 GMT		3 points
	I'm pretty sure you spelled Nikita's last name wrong. To check myself, I looked up the only accepted English spelling of his name, replayed the quiz and typed it in, and it was wrong after the second letter.

	OdysseusKelly:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 05:12 GMT		1 point
	I did, in fact have the correct spelling, but I had written "khr" on the list of wrong answers by accident. It was a foolish mistake, and one that I should have caught before contributing the quiz. Sorry that it took so long to change: I had over 150 mines to sort through to find the error. Thanks for the catch, minneapolitan.

	gowhere:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 13:13 GMT		1 point
	I dislike the format intensely as well. I type fast enough that I had killed all four answers by not having the right city for the first question, before I even realized I had it wrong.

	OdysseusKelly:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 06:24 GMT		1 point
	As promised, the next quiz in this series has more answers, asks questions that aren't as hard, does not have mines (as this one, too, no longer does) and has been thoroughly tested for bugs like the one that people ran into here with "Khrushchev." This one was, as I said, more of an experiment (a public, contributed experiment, albeit), and now I'm working on more evenly balanced, more fun quizzes in the same vein. This new one is the Geography Spelling Bee, and if you have any faith that I can go somewhere with this format, please try it out. Here it is: sporcle.com/games/OdysseusKelly/geography-spelling-bee. Thank you!