Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as what ? | Hudson Bay | 83%
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1990 – Iraq invades which country ? | Kuwait | 58%
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1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. The wreckage would not be found until which year ? | 1998 | 50%
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1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in which city ? | London | 50%
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1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in which Italian city ? | Bologna | 42%
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1989 – Which country is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972. | Pakistan | 42%
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1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in which city ? | Vancouver | 42%
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1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot. The Southampton Plot was a plan to do what ? | Depose the King | 33%
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1343 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to take revenge by attacking shipping in which area ? | English Channel | 33%
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1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre on which European island ? | Isle of Man | 33%
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2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at which airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries but no fatalities ? | Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada | 33%
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1922 – What kills more than 50.000 people in Shantou, Republic of China ? | Typhoon | 33%
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1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches to Britain. How many ships were in the convoy ? | 166 | 17%
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1914 – World War I: The German occupation of country begins ? | Luxembourg | 17%
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1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of which President ? | Warren G. Harding | 17%
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