Can you name the number of years between the two given events?

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First Event	Number of Years	Second Event
The beginning of the First World War		The beginning of the Second World War
Construction begins on the Berlin Wall		The fall of the Berlin Wall
The sinking of the Titanic		The sinking of the Lusitania
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space		Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
The Russian Revolution		The collapse of the Soviet Union
A new nation conceived in liberty is brought forth		Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address
Galileo begins observing Jupiter's moons		The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon		Julius Caesar is assassinated
Anne Frank goes into hiding		Anne Frank is captured
The Wright brothers' first flight		Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
10BC		10AD
Fidel Castro becomes the president of Cuba		Fidel Castro retires from presidency
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor		Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The beginning of the Hundred Years' War		The end of the Hundred Years' War
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln		The assassination of John F. Kennedy
Pluto is discovered		Pluto is demoted to minor planet status
Operation Desert Storm begins		Operation Iraqi Freedom begins
Napoleon is exiled to Elba		Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena
Capt. Cook first arrives in Australia		English convicts first arrive in Australia
The Slavery Abolition Act abolishes slavery in (most of) the British Empire		Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

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How Many Years... Quiz

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Created by: betraisefold -
Contributed: February 1st, 2010
Published: May 6th, 2010
Category: History
Plays: 64,342

Tags: Numbers Quizzes, second, event, between, fold, bet, raise, world history pack

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	flixuk:	May 6th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	3 points
	Wow, I didn't realise the US was so far behind in abolishing slavery. So much for 'beacon on the hill.'

	TJL:	May 6th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT	37 points
	The Gettysburg Address one should accept "four score and seven"

	Pedantic:	May 6th, 2010 at 17:43 GMT	11 points
	Curse you year o!

	midwesterndiva:	May 6th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT	13 points
	For Galileo, it should be when he first sighted the moons of Jupiter (1610) and when the Vatican recognized that his theories of a sun-centered universe could be true (1895).

	The_Dude:	May 6th, 2010 at 18:33 GMT	62 points
	Picking a number I think it is and then pressing numbers above and below it. Joy

	gowhere:	May 6th, 2010 at 19:05 GMT	11 points
	The Galileo one is the hardest one to get because even knowing basically when the two events happened because the order of magnitude is much greater. Most of the others if you have a decent knowledge of history you can use The_Dude's method to arrive at the answer, even if you don't have it exactly right.

	BiloxiSean:	May 6th, 2010 at 19:06 GMT	5 points
	of course you realize that the emancipation proclamation didn't free anybody. Read it.

	jefe_:	May 6th, 2010 at 19:39 GMT	1 point
	@gowhere Actually, I guessed 380 on my first try. Was thinking early 1990s and the early 1600s, so I figured around 380, and it happened to be exactly so.

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	jiminymatthew:	May 6th, 2010 at 21:33 GMT	2 points
	@BiloxiSean: I don't listen to hip-hop.

	A_Trep:	May 6th, 2010 at 21:38 GMT	8 points
	let's see... 10-9 BC (one) 9-8 BC (two) 8-7 BC (three) 7-6 BC (four) 6-5 BC (five) 5-4 BC (six) 4-3 BC (seven) 3-2 BC (eight) 2-1 BC (nine) 1 BC-1 AD (ten) 1-2 AD (eleven) 2-3 AD (twelve) 3-4 AD (thirteen) 4-5 AD (fourteen) 5-6 AD (fifteen) 6-7 AD (sixteen) 7-8 AD (seventeen) 8-9 AD (eighteen) 9-10 AD uh... 20!!!!

	ChLeDa:	May 6th, 2010 at 22:06 GMT	-3 points
	give an example.

	godpaul25:	May 6th, 2010 at 22:34 GMT	-2 points
	@bean: I think creator is Canadian actually, nice try. And so what if he did?

	eurythmech:	May 6th, 2010 at 22:34 GMT	-3 points
	Got Gallileo with 1 second to spare :)

	mathboy0:	May 6th, 2010 at 22:49 GMT	14 points
	bean: Way to not get the Gettysburg Address reference.

	thedpr:	May 7th, 2010 at 00:11 GMT	7 points
	@flixuk: Behind the UK, sure. But well ahead of most of the rest of the world. In fact, bonded slavery, while technically illegal, is still going on in many places around the world where the legal system is weak. See ijm.org for mor info.