Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1249 – The Coronation of Alexander III takes place. He becomes known as what ? | King of Scots | 71%
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1973 – Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee the existence of what ? | Secret Oval Office taping system | 71%
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1814 – The Carabinieri is established. They are the national police force of which country ? | Italy | 57%
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1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer is born. He played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in which Star Trek series ? | Next Generation | 57%
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1863 – Opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting in which city, that will be later regarded as the worst in United States history ? | New York | 43%
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1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and which US city ? | Philadelphia | 43%
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1977 – Which country declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War ? | Somalia | 43%
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1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated by a member of the opposing political faction. What was he doing at the time ? | Taking a bath | 43%
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1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in how many hours of flight ? | 182 | 29%
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1573 – During the Eighty Years' War the Siege of which city ends after seven months ? | Haarlem | 29%
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2011 – Which large city is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour ? | Mumbai | 29%
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1831 – Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of which country ? | Romania | 29%
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1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured by forces loyal to Henry II of England in which northern English town ? | Alnwick | 0%
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1956 – The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on what ? | Artificial Intelligence | 0%
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1941 – World War II: Which nation begins a popular uprising against the Axis powers ? | Montenegro | 0%
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