Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1948 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from which country ? | North Korea | 67%
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2012 – Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter dies on this day. Which of the following is NOT one of his creations ? | Thomas the Tank Engine | 67%
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2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and which other city ? | Guangzhou | 56%
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1994 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers when it lands in which city ? | Marseille | 56%
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1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to which team by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition ? | New York Yankees | 56%
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1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer is born. He is a co-founder of which rock band ? | Metallica | 44%
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1860 – The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between two football clubs from which city ? | Sheffield | 44%
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1871 – The first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the score has been lost. What was it called ? | Thespis | 44%
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1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board which vessel are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship ? | USS Red Rover | 44%
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1776 – American Revolutionary War: Which battle takes place in which the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces ? | Battle of Trenton | 33%
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887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with at Pavia with a crown made from which material ? | Iron | 33%
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1943 – World War II: German warship "Scharnhorst" is sunk off the northern coast of which country after a battle against major Royal Navy forces ? | Norway | 33%
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1972 – Vietnam War: 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked which city in the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history ? | Hanoi | 22%
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1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and which other song are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level ? | "I Saw Her Standing There" | 22%
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1975 – The world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, went into service. It was built in which country ? | Soviet Union | 11%
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