Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1989 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near which Northern Irish village ? | Rosslea | 70%
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1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of which island nation ? | Cyprus | 50%
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1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from which English port on his round-the-world voyage ? | Plymouth | 50%
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1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions of what ? | Solidarity Union | 50%
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2018 – A high-speed train crashes killing at least nine people and injuring 84 in which capital city ? | Ankara | 40%
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1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in which city ? | Geneva | 40%
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1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to which city ? | Jerusalem | 40%
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2002 – The EU announces that Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on which date ? | May 1st 2004 | 30%
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2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near which Iraqi town ? | Tikrit | 30%
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1758 – The English transport ship Duke William sinks in which body of water killing over 360 people ? | North Atlantic | 20%
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1928 – Which of George Gershwin's compositions is performed for the first time ? | An American in Paris | 10%
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1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of which German city ? | Hamburg | 10%
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1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in which English county ? | Hampshire | 10%
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2001 – Sansad Bhavan is attacked by terrorists killing twelve people, including the terrorists. It is the Parliament building of which country? | India | 10%
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1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight which land ? | New Zealand | 10%
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