Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1982 – Kelly Clarkson, singer-songwriter, producer, and actress is born. She achieved fame after winning which TV reality show ? | American Idol | 90%
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1885 – Who is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show ? | Annie Oakley | 50%
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1860 – Queen Marau is born and is to become the last Queen of which island ? | Tahiti | 50%
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1913 – Which skyscraper in New York City is opened ? | The Woolworth Building | 50%
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1918 – World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux near to which French town ? | Amiens | 40%
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1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis in which military Operation ? | Operation Eagle Claw | 40%
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1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after how many years of quarantine ? | 48 | 30%
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2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed 18 years previously on which country ? | Libya | 30%
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1558 – Who marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris ? | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots | 30%
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1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of which UK moorland area, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom. | Kinder Scout | 20%
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1970 – Which country becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President ? | The Gambia | 20%
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1974 – Bud Abbott, American comedian dies. Groucho Marx once declared Abbott to be what ? | "The Greatest Straight Man Ever." | 20%
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1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from which island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance ? | Elephant Island | 10%
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1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although due to his age power effectively shifts to who? | Hatshepsut | 10%
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1944 – World War II: The British Special Boat Service launches a raid against the garrison on which Greek island ? | Santorini | 10%
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