Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1973 – The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated in Madrid by what means ? | Car bomb | 80%
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1971 – Which international aid organization is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France ? | Médecins Sans Frontières | 80%
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1968 – A serial killer known by what name kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California ? | The Zodiac Killer | 80%
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1917 – The first Soviet secret police force, is founded. By what name was it known ? | Cheka | 60%
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1860 – Which state becomes the first to attempt to secede from the United States ? | South Carolina | 60%
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1915 – World War I: The last troops from which nation are evacuated from Gallipoli ? | Australia | 40%
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1946 – Which popular Christmas film is first released in New York City ? | It's a Wonderful Life | 40%
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2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of which bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland ? | Northern Bank | 40%
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2007 – The "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" by which artist is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art ? | Pablo Picasso | 40%
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1987 – In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry "Doña Paz" sinks after colliding with the oil tanker "MT Vector" in the Tablas Strait in which country ? | Philippines | 40%
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1957 – The initial production version of which Boeing airplane makes its first flight ? | 707 | 20%
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1984 – The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying gasoline derails in which of the UK's hilly regions ? | Pennines | 20%
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1334 – Cistercian monk Jacques Fournier is elected as which Pope ? | Pope Benedict XII | 20%
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1832 – "HMS Clio" under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of which island group ? | Falkland Islands | 0%
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1951 – The EBR-1 becomes the first nuclear breeder reactor to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. In which US state was it ? | Idaho | 0%
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