Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is injured by what animal whilst on an expedition in South Dakota ? | Grizzly Bear | 92%
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1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become which computer software operating system ? | Linux | 67%
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1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first what to Venetian lawmakers ? | Telescope | 67%
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1825 – Which nation declares its independence from Brazil ? | Uruguay | 58%
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1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover to Calais in what time ? | 21 hours and 45 minutes | 50%
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1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit which country ? | Japan | 50%
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1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to which planet ? | Saturn | 50%
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1980 – Which African country joins the United Nations ? | Zimbabwe | 42%
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2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first man-made object to do what ? | Enter Interstellar Space | 33%
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1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to which planet ? | Neptune | 33%
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1939 – The United Kingdom and which country form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend the other in case of invasion by a foreign power ? | Poland | 33%
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1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's what to avert a strike ? | Railroads | 25%
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1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in which newspaper, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon ? | The New York Sun | 17%
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1940 – World War II: The first Bombing of which German city by the British Royal Air Force ? | Berlin | 8%
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1270 – King Louis IX of France dies in which city while on the Eighth Crusade ? | Tunis | 0%
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