Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of what ? | Organizing a slave rebellion | 71%
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1962 – The first Walmart store opens for business in which city ? | Rogers, Arkansas | 71%
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2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion kills at least 230 people in which country ? | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 57%
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1940 – The SS Arandora Star is sunk by submarine U-47 with the loss of over 800 lives in which body of water ? | North Atlantic | 57%
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1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in which city ? | Calcutta | 43%
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1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off which conflict ? | Crimean War | 43%
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2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial what is first implanted ? | Heart | 43%
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866 – Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint army from the Breton and which other people ? | Viking | 43%
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1644 – Which battle of the English Civil War takes place ? | Battle of Marston Moor | 29%
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1839 – 53 kidnapped Africans, led by Joseph Cinqué, mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad twenty miles off the coast of which island ? | Cuba | 29%
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1504 – Bogdan III becomes Voivode of Moldavia. What was Bogdan known as ? | The One Eyed | 29%
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Today, along with June 24th, is recognised as what ? | World UFO Day | 29%
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1941 – William Guest, American singer-songwriter and producer is born. He is best known for being a member of which group ? | Gladys Knight and the Pips | 14%
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1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first what ? | Steam Engine | 14%
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1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on which lake ? | Lake Constance | 0%
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