Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the conflict known as what ? | Cod Wars | 78%
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1914 – Which Russian city changes its name to Petrograd ? | St. Petersburg | 67%
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1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of which ship ? | Titanic | 67%
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1972 – American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion in which city ? | Reykjavik | 56%
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1420 – An earthquake shakes which desert causing tsunamis thousands of miles away ? | Atacama | 44%
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1914 – The last known passenger pigeon dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. What was its name ? | Martha | 44%
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1897 – The Tremont Street Subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America, in which city ? | Boston | 33%
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1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Telephone Dispatch Company in which city ? | Boston, USA | 33%
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1981 – A coup d'état in which African country overthrows President David Dacko ? | Central African Republic | 33%
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1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of where by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England ? | Pembroke | 33%
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1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and which other country invade Poland ? | Slovakia | 33%
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1952 – Which novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published ? | The Old Man and the Sea | 33%
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1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in which US state ? | California | 22%
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1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at which place ?. | Walla Walla, Washington | 22%
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1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the 1st one built in which modern day country, is destroyed by natives ? | Argentina | 0%
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