Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside which cathedral by followers of King Henry II ? | Canterbury Cathedral | 86%
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1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands east of the Mississippi River belonging to which native American tribe to the United States ? | Cherokee | 86%
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1997 – Hong Kong begins a cull of which animal in an effort to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain ? | Chicken | 71%
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2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. Where was the language spoken ? | Kola Peninsula, Russia | 57%
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2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, that was negotiated in which year ? | 1946 | 43%
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1916 – Which novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house ? | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 43%
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1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead in which US state ? | Ohio | 43%
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2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway in Moscow. The M3 highway runs to the border with which country ? | Ukraine | 43%
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2013 – A suicide bomb attack at a railway station in which Russian city kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others ? | Volgograd | 43%
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1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a civil war that had lasted for how long ? | 36 years | 29%
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1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. He was the president of which South American country ? | Brazil | 29%
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1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe fire-bombs which English city killing almost 200 civilians ? | London | 29%
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1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture which city ?. | Savannah, Georgia | 29%
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1851 – The first American YMCA opens in which city ? | Boston | 14%
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1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in which US national park ? | Everglades | 14%
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