Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1997 – The Kyoto Protocol treaty opens for signature. It concerns which global issue ? | Climate Change | 63%
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1917 – World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters which city on foot and declares martial law ? | Jerusalem | 63%
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1978 – A heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. On which airlines cargo depot was it committed ? | Lufthansa | 63%
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2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. It is alongside which motorway ? | M1 | 38%
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1962 – Arthur Lucas is the last person to be executed in Canada. What crime was he convicted of ? | Murder | 38%
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1688 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into which river ? | Thames | 38%
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1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near which Welsh town ? | Builth Wells | 25%
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1907 – The Parliament Buildings of which nation are almost completely destroyed by fire ? | New Zealand | 25%
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1968 – A Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull, is filmed in Wembley, London. Who organised it ? | The Rolling Stones | 25%
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1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to which city ? (The captain is able to safely land the plane) | Tokyo | 25%
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1946 – Which United Nations organisation is established ? | UNICEF | 25%
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2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a Ponzi scheme valued at how much ? | $50 billion | 13%
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1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of which European city ? | Geneva | 13%
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1816 – Which state becomes the 19th U.S. state ? | Indiana | 13%
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1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the final Apollo mission to land on the Moon. It was which mission to land there ? | Sixth | 13%
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