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Question	Answer	% Correct
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of which state ?	Virginia	69%
1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of where ?	Canada	54%
1968 – Which English politician makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech ?	Enoch Powell	54%
1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over which city, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan ?	Stockholm	54%
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to which section of the military ?	Hitler Youth	46%
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to members of which religion in New Amsterdam (later New York) ?	Jews	46%
1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes, killing all 53 people on board, after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in which city ?	Bogota, Colombia	38%
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at a battle off which island ?	Tenerife	38%
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a coal-miners' strike in which state ?	Colorado	31%
2008 – Danica Patrick becomes the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. Which race ?	Indy Japan 300	23%
1908 – Opening day of competition in the which Rugby League ?	New South Wales	23%
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in which Chinese province ?	Sichuan	23%
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his last two victims, his final victories before his death the following day. What numbers were they ?	79th and 80th	15%
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last for approximately how long ?	Six Months	0%
1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, what does the disc measure ?	Water Clarity	0%

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