Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from which country ? | France | 89%
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1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed as what ? | Purple Heart | 78%
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1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act at which place ? | World Trade Centre towers, New York | 78%
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1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York to where ? | San Francisco | 67%
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1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war in which island group ? | Solomon Islands | 56%
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1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and which other city ? | Buffalo, New York | 44%
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1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. It is better known by what name ? | Harvard Mark I | 44%
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936 – Coronation of which king of Germany ? | King Otto I "The Great" | 44%
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1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in the west of which state ? | Pennsylvania | 44%
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1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after how many years of publication ? | 128 | 33%
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1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim across which body of water ? | Bering Strait | 33%
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1786 – The first federal what is created by the United States ? | Indian Reservation | 33%
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1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is known as the lead singer of which rock band ? | Iron Maiden | 33%
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1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's raft the "Kon-Tiki", hits the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. What was it made of ? | Balsa Wood | 22%
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1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and which other team ? | Scotch College | 11%
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