Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1787 – Which state becomes the first to ratify the United States Constitution ? | Delaware | 78%
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1979 – Which science fiction television series makes the move to the "big screen" with the release of a full length movie ? | Star Trek | 78%
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1732 – The Royal Opera House opens in which district of London ? | Covent Garden | 67%
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2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at which city's airport ? | Miami | 56%
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1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes a photograph of Earth that becomes known as what ? | The Blue Marble | 56%
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1966 – Louise Post, American singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. She is known as a founder member of a band named after which Roald Dahl character ? | Veruca Salt | 56%
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1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at which European airport ? | Madrid Barajas | 44%
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1963 – Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in which US city ? | Philadelphia | 44%
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1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at which planet ? | Jupiter | 33%
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1942 – World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in which French harbour ? | Bordeaux | 22%
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1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in how many consecutive Test innings ? | Four | 22%
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1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in which Missouri city ? | Gallatin | 22%
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1941 – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces on which island ? | Oahu | 22%
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1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to where ? | Taipei | 22%
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2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill to legally recognize same-sex marriages is passed in which nation's parliament ? | Australia | 11%
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