Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress and singer is also born on this day. She won an Oscar for portraying which world leader ? | Margaret Thatcher | 73%
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1921 – Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region in which country ? | Morocco | 64%
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2012 – President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco in which country ? | Paraguay | 64%
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1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades which country in Operation Barbarossa ? | Soviet Union | 64%
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1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as what ? | The G.I. Bill | 55%
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1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches which city in France ? | Le Havre | 45%
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1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany. It was signed in what mode of transport ? | Railway carriage | 45%
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1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor is born. In the film "Convoy" what was his CB handle ? | Rubber Duck | 45%
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1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of which Asian city ? | Jakarta | 27%
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1911 – Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of which city ? | Tijuana | 27%
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1948 – The ship "HMT Empire Windrush" brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to which UK port ? | Tilbury | 27%
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2009 – A metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station in which city ? | Washington D.C. | 27%
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1893 – Which Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria killing 358 crew, including the fleet's commander ? | HMS Camperdown | 18%
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1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from which UK airport ? | London Gatwick | 18%
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1948 – King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", how long after Britain actually gave up its rule of India ? | Six months | 9%
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