Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of what ? | Slaves | 100%
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1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer is born. He is best known for portraying which character ? | Jon Boy Walton (The Waltons) | 60%
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1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of which planet ? | Neptune | 60%
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1994 – A jury in which city blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster ? | Anchorage | 40%
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1625 – Which King of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury ? | Charles I | 40%
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1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with which city chosen as its capital ? | Dawson | 40%
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1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down which road in New York City ? | Fifth Avenue | 40%
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1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress is also born on this day. She rose to fame via which UK reality TV series ? | Popstars | 40%
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1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires how many blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II ? | Six | 40%
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1944 – World War II: Germany launches the first of what type of attack on England ? | V1 Flying Bomb | 40%
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2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in which city ? | Pyongyang | 20%
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1952 – Catalina affair: A Douglas DC-3 belonging to which country is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter ? | Sweden | 20%
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1886 – A fire devastates much of which Canadian city ? | Vancouver | 20%
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1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at which dockyard in England ? | Woolwich | 20%
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1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of which river ? | Missouri | 0%
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