Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1896 – Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a person killed by what means in the United Kingdom ? | Collision with a motor vehicle | 50%
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1883 – The first public performance of "Himno Nacional". It is which country's national anthem ? | Dominican Republic | 50%
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1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits which city with winds at 135 miles per hour ? | Galvaston, Texas | 50%
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1740 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as which Pope ? | 247th | 38%
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1945 – Which of George Orwell's novels is first published ? | Animal Farm | 38%
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1959 – Quake Lake is formed by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake near Hebgen Lake in which US state ? | Montana | 38%
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1970 – Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet. Which planet ? | Venus | 38%
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2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of which country ? | Bangladesh | 25%
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1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving which part of North America ? | Maine | 25%
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309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to which island ? | Sicily | 25%
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1549 – The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in which country ? | England | 13%
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1953 – Addiction: First meeting of which "Anonymous" group takes place, in Southern California ? | Narcotics Anonymous | 13%
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1807 – Robert Fulton's "North River Steamboat" leaves which city, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world ? | New York | 13%
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1597 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to which island group ? | Azores | 0%
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1560 – The Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in which country ? | Scotland | 0%
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