Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of which dam ? | Hoover Dam, USA | 78%
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1980 – Institution of sharia law in which country ? | Iran | 78%
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1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with indigenous peoples in what is now which country ? | Canada | 56%
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1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe in which state ? | Missouri | 56%
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1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at what age ? | Seventeen | 56%
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1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent from which country ? | United Kingdom | 56%
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2005 – A series of four explosions, killing 56 people, occurs on which city's transport system ? | London | 44%
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1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to do what in public ? | Go Topless | 33%
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1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a neighborhood of which California city ? | Beverly Hills | 22%
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2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in how many locations around the world ? | Eleven | 22%
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1911 – The US, the UK, Japan, and Russia sign the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. The hunting of which animals did it ban ? | Seals | 22%
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1941 – The US occupation of Iceland replaces the occupation of which country ? | United Kingdom | 22%
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1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy how long after her death ? | 25 years | 11%
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1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; how much do exemptions cost ? | $300 | 11%
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1834 – Four nights of rioting against abolitionists begin in which city ? | New York | 11%
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