Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1932 – The Nazi Party wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections. What is the party's official name ? | National Socialist German Workers' Party | 70%
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1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover which island ? | Trinidad | 60%
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1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned ration of what in the Royal Navy ? | Rum | 40%
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1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in which country ? | Austria | 30%
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2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics. How many does he hold ? | 28 | 20%
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1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in which capital city ? | Bucharest | 20%
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1992 – Which nation joins the United Nations ? | Georgia | 20%
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781 – The oldest recorded eruption of which volcano ? | Mount Fuji | 20%
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2007 – Operation Banner, the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. Where did it take place ? | Northern Ireland | 20%
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1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to do what ? | Ride in a lunar rover | 20%
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1975 – Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland. What was the bands name ? | The Miami Showband | 20%
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1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for what invention ? | A way of processing Potash | 10%
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1856 – Which New Zealand city is chartered on this day ? | Christchurch | 10%
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1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet. What is he pelted with ? | Flowers | 0%
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1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of which French river ? | Yonne | 0%
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