Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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2012 | Former President of Egypt is sentenced to life imprisonment for allowing the killing of protesters | Hosni Mubarak | 100%
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455 | Vandals begin to Sack this city | Rome | 100%
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1882 | Death of Italian general, best known for his role in Italian reunification | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 71%
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1886 | This US president marries, being the only one to marry in the White House | Grover Cleveland | 71%
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1920 | Battle of Boryspil: what country's forces defeat those of the Soviets? | Poland | 71%
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1611 | Franco de Franco interrupts a Corpus Christi procession in which city in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, leading to his later execution? | Vilnius | 71%
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1946 | This country votes to become a Republic | Italy | 57%
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1572 | Thomas Howard is executed for his role in a conspiracy aiming to replace Elizabeth Tudor with whom? | Mary Stuart | 57%
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1878 | Attempted assassination of this German is used to outlaw the Social Democratic Party | Wilhelm I | 57%
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1098 | The besiegement of this Seljuk-held city (now Turkey) by the Crusaders ends | Antioch | 43%
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1793 | Deputies from this faction of the National Convention are arrested in France | Gironde | 43%
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1763 | Pontiac's War: Ojibwe outside Fort Michilimackinac play a game as a ruse - the predecessor of which modern sport? | Lacrosse | 43%
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1805 | Battle of Diamond Rock takes place near which French island territory? | Martinique | 43%
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1848 | The Slavic Congress begins in which city, then in Austria-Hungary? | Prague | 43%
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2014 | Militants from which group carry out a massacre in Gwoza? | Boko Haram | 29%
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1537 | This pope issues the bull 'Sublimis Deus', recognising the personhood of Native Americans and proclaiming that they should not be enslaved | Paul III | 29%
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1899 | End of the besiegement of this city in the Philippines, lasting beyond the end of the Spanish-American War | Baler | 14%
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1676 | This country's forces are defeated in the naval Battle of Palermo | Dutch Republic | 14%
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1780 | Against a relaxation of anti-Catholic measures, these riots begin in London, titled after the head of the Protestant Association | {Gordon} Riots | 14%
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1866 | Battle of Ridgeway: Fenians raid across which river in North America? | Niagara | 14%
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