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Question	Answer	% Correct
1896 – The shortest war in world history takes place between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. How long does it last ?	Less than an hour	71%
1985 – The government of which country is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida ?	Nigeria	71%
2011 – Which hurricane strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage ?	Irene	57%
1828 – Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of which city ?	Montevideo	57%
1832 – The leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities. What was his name ?	Black Hawk	43%
1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in which South African city ?	Bloemfontein	43%
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians in a battle on land near which present day German city ?	Dresden	43%
1810 – The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France, now known as which country ?	Mauritius	43%
1956 – Calder Hall in the United Kingdom became the world's first commercial power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale by what means ?	Nuclear	43%
1916 – World War I: Which nation declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations ?	Romania	29%
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately how many nations will sign it ?	Sixty One	29%
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in which US state leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well ?	Pennsylvania	14%
1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in which African nation ?	Chad	0%
1991 – Which country declares it's independence from the USSR ?	Moldova	0%
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to which planet by NASA ?	Venus	0%

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