Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1913 – Which motor company introduces the first moving assembly line ? | Ford | 78%
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1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against which country ? | United States | 78%
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1988 – Which awareness day was proclaimed worldwide for the first time by the UN member states ? | World AIDS Day | 78%
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1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of which kingdom ? | Denmark | 67%
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1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested, an incident which leads to which Alabama city's bus boycott ? | Montgomery | 56%
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1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of what ? | Attempted arson | 44%
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1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from which nation ? | Australia | 44%
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1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of which nation ? | Brazil | 44%
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1977 – Pinwheel pay TV is launched in the US. It is now known by what name ? | Nickelodeon | 44%
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1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed. How far below the seabed is the tunnel ? | 40 metres | 33%
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1913 – The first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere begins operation in which city ? | Buenos Aires | 33%
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1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on a frozen lake watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine in which London park ? | St. James Park | 33%
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2017 – A 100-megawatt Tesla Powerpack system, which is the world's largest lithium-ion battery, is launched in Jamestown, in which Australian state ? | South Australia | 22%
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1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes on which Mediterranean island, killing all 180 people on board ? | Corsica | 11%
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1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in which city ? | Raleigh, North Carolina | 11%
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