Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes which city ? | Cape Town | 80%
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1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, how many years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I ? | 1500 | 70%
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1722 - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends the tax on what ? | Men with Beards | 70%
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1974 – The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with which song ? | Waterloo | 70%
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1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first what ? | Millionaire | 60%
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1909 – Although disputed, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach which point on Earth ? | North Pole | 60%
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1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to establish Clemson Agricultural College in which state ? | South Carolina | 60%
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1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines and founds which company ? | Olympic Airlines | 50%
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1930 – At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire" whilst raising a lump of salt and what other material ? | Mud | 40%
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1980 - What common item found in most offices is introduced ? | Post It Notes | 30%
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1843 - Which person is appointed the British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria ? | William Wordsworth | 30%
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1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, raises which nations flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro ? | Albania | 20%
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1912 - An electric starter is first fitted to which make of car ? | Cadillac | 20%
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2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near which Italian city killing 307 ? | L'Aquila | 10%
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1992 - Microsoft announces which version of Windows ? | Windows 3.1 | 10%
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