Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1961 – Which country is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister ? | Sierra Leone | 75%
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1993 – All members of the which national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal ? | Zambia | 75%
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1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for how much ? | £10 | 63%
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1521 – Which explorer is killed by natives led by chief Lapu-Lapu in the Philippines ? | Ferdinand Magellan | 50%
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711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by landing at which place ? | Gibraltar | 50%
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1953 – The US offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. Known as which operation ? | Operation Moolah | 50%
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2005 – Which aircraft had its maiden test flight ? | Airbus A380 | 38%
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1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected as what in the UK ? | Speaker of the House of Commons | 38%
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2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of which city ? | Jerusalem | 25%
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1967 – Expo 67 officially opens with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world, in which city ? | Montreal, Canada | 25%
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2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower in which city ? | New York | 25%
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2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed by which two countries ? | North Korea and South Korea | 25%
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1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in the village of Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as what ? | German Soldier | 13%
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1923 – Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, is born today, she was the first female chief of which native American tribe ? | Seminole Tribe of Florida | 0%
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1960 – Which African country gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship ? | Togo | 0%
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