Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in which conflict ? | Korean War | 100%
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1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded. Which city was it centred around ? | Dubrovnik, Croatia | 60%
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1988 – A rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people, at which station ? | Gare de Lyon | 60%
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1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at a jail in which state ? | Illinois | 60%
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1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to which airport ? | Entebbe, Uganda | 40%
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1760 – Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee in which present-day state ? | North Carolina | 40%
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1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near which major city ? | Moscow | 20%
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1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during an Operation called by what name ? | Operation Barbarossa | 20%
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1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard which Russian battleship ? | Potemkin | 20%
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2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe what ? | The Sun | 20%
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2002 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and producer dies on this day. He was best known as a member of which band ? | The Who | 20%
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1973 – The President, Juan María Bordaberry, dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship in which country ? | Uruguay | 20%
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1497 – Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England. They were rebels from which region of Britain ? | Cornwall | 0%
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1977 – France grants independence to which nation ? | Djibouti | 0%
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1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in which Japanese city ? | Matsumoto | 0%
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