Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale of what ? | Alcohol | 86%
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1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in which US city ? | Atlanta | 86%
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2001 – Which famous attraction reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it ? | The Leaning Tower of Pisa | 86%
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1944 – World War II: a single-engine Norseman aeroplane carrying US Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over which body of water ? | English Channel | 57%
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1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near which Italian city, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10 ? | Naples | 57%
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2019 – Chinese Television pulls an English Premier League match from its schedule after a player criticized China's re-education camps. Which teams were playing ? | Arsenal and Manchester City | 43%
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2000 – The third reactor at which nuclear power plant is shut down ? | Chernobyl, Ukraine | 43%
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1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate which person ? | John F. Kennedy | 43%
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1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine kills 687 on which Japanese island ? | Kyushu | 43%
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2010 – A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of which island killing 48 people ? | Christmas Island | 29%
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1651 – Castle Cornet, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders. It is on which island ? | Guernsey | 29%
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1949 – Don Johnson, American actor is born. As well as Miami Vice he starred in which US TV crime drama series ? | Nash Bridges | 29%
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Today is celebrated as Homecoming Day on which of the Channel Islands ? | Alderney | 14%
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1981 – A suicide car bombing targeting the embassy of which nation in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people ? | Iraq | 14%
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1167 – Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to which city to prevent a rebellion ? | Messina | 0%
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