Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of what ? | Heresy | 78%
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1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, by leaders of which two nations ? | Israel and Palestine | 67%
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1940 – Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader in which city ? | Mexico City | 56%
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1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in which city ? | Moscow | 56%
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1944 – World War II: The Battle of which country begins with a major Soviet Union offensive ? | Romania | 56%
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1989 – The pleasure boat "Marchioness" sinks after a collision on which British river ? | Thames | 56%
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2012 – A prison riot kills at least 20 people in which South American city ? | Caracas | 44%
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1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost how many years of war ? | Eight | 44%
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1866 – Which US President formally declares the American Civil War over ? | Andrew Johnson | 33%
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1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in which US city ? | Detroit | 33%
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1977 – NASA launches which spacecraft ? | Voyager 2 | 33%
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1988 – "Black Saturday" of the fires in which US National Park ? | Yellowstone | 33%
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2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in which European city ? | Berlin, Germany | 11%
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1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in which Dutch city ? | The Hague | 11%
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1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin in the place that became which modern day city ? | Tuscon | 0%
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