Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1859 – British and French engineers break ground for which construction project ? | Suez Canal | 83%
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1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by what means ? | Guillotine | 50%
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1990 – Violeta Chamorro becomes the first woman to take office as the President of which country ? | Nicaragua | 50%
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1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about what ? | Nuclear War | 50%
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2005 – Which two countries sign accession treaties to join the European Union ? | Bulgaria and Romania | 33%
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1945 – Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in which city ? | San Francisco | 33%
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1960 – Which United States Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe ? | USS Triton | 33%
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2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing which car at the Lausitzring in Germany ? | Audi R8 | 17%
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1940 – The flag of which island group is approved by the British occupation government ? | Faroe Islands | 17%
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2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by which army in 1937 ? | Italian | 17%
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1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond the orbit of which heavenly body ? | Pluto | 17%
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799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, which Pope flees to the Frankish court of King Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection ? | Pope Leo III | 17%
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1134 – Which city was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the _____ Bishopric around 1094 ? | Zagreb | 17%
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1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require what ? | Automobile License Plates. | 0%
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1954 – Bell Telephone Laboratories publicly demonstrates the first practical what ? | Solar Cell | 0%
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