Question | Answer | % Correct |
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2019 – The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in which city ? | Wuhan | 79%
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1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, at Menlo Park in which US state ? | New Jersey | 71%
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1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Rhodesia and which other nation ? | Malawi | 64%
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1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. What did the media call the split ? | Velvet Divorce | 64%
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1983 – Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever police commissioner from which ethnic group ? | African American | 57%
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1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to which Cape ? | Cape of Good Hope | 57%
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1831 – Which park in Manhattan is deeded to New York City ? | Gramercy Park | 57%
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1229 – James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon enters Medina Mayurqa thus consummating the Christian reconquest of which island ? | Majorca | 43%
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2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around which celestial body ? | The Moon | 36%
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1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square in Manhattan. What was the square then known as ? | Longacre Square | 29%
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2004 – The official opening of which building, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world ? | Taipei 101 | 29%
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1670 – The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay having surveyed the coast and lost 4 hostages to the Spanish. In which modern day country is Corral Bay ? | Chile | 21%
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1956 – Which European country's television network begins its first broadcast ? | Romania | 14%
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1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness. How long is the lease valid for ? | 9,000 years | 7%
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1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ended after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at which city's airport ? | Kandahar, Afganistan | 7%
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