Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to which village on the banks of the Düssel river ? | Dusseldorf | 75%
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1592 – The first sighting of which island group by Queen Elizabeth I chief navigator John Davis ? | Falkland Islands | 75%
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1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of where ? | Scotland | 75%
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1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes in which Polish city ? | Gdansk | 50%
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1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in the last known public execution in the United States in which state ? | Kentucky | 50%
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1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in which city ? | London | 50%
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2003 – What event affects the northeast United States and Canada ? | Power Blackout | 50%
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1814 – A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended which war ? | Swedish–Norwegian War | 50%
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1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces defeat an English expeditionary force. In which county was the battle fought ? | County Armagh | 25%
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2015 – The US Embassy in which city re-opens after 54 years of being closed ? | Havana | 25%
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1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to the European town of Carlsbad which is now known by what name ? | Karlovy Vary | 25%
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1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce what ? | Motor vehicle registration | 25%
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1912 – U.S. Marines invade which country to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier ? | Nicaragua | 0%
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1967 – UK Offences Act declares participation in what illegal ? | Offshore pirate radio | 0%
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1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of what product ? | Rust-proof paint | 0%
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