Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for what ? | Bubonic Plague | 86%
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1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to which organisation ? | United Nations | 86%
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1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for which construction project ? | Panama Canal | 71%
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2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines which heavenly body ? | Pluto | 71%
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1995 – Which Microsoft product was released to the public in North America ? | Windows 95 | 71%
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1482 – The town and castle of which town is captured from Scotland by an English army ? | Berwick upon Tweed | 57%
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1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in which country ? | Poland | 57%
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410 – The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage which city ? | Rome | 57%
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1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept what ? | The Book of Common Prayer | 43%
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1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of which city ? | Cadiz | 29%
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1967 – The Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing what from the viewing gallery ? | Dollar Bills | 29%
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1911 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of which country ? | Portugal | 29%
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1891 – Thomas Edison patents which of his inventions ? | Movie Camera | 14%
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1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop from Los Angeles to where ? | Newark, New Jersey | 14%
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1914 – World War I: German troops capture which Belgian city ? | Namur | 0%
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