Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1880 – Which country annexes Tahiti ? | France | 64%
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1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating what ? | Interstate Highway System | 64%
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1976 – The Seychelles become independent from which nation ? | United Kingdom | 64%
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2007 – Apple Inc. releases what device for the first time ? | iPhone | 55%
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1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach which island ? | Prince Edward Island | 55%
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1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with what type of entertainment ? | Ballet group | 45%
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1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. In which modern day country is most of Carpathian Ruthenia ? | Ukraine | 45%
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1922 – France grants 1 square kilometre of land at Vimy Ridge to be "freely, and for all time, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes" to which nation ? | Canada | 36%
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1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer is born. He is known as the drummer for which band ? | Deep Purple | 36%
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1194 – Sverre Sigurdsson is crowned King of which country ? | Norway | 27%
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1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of which city ? | Seoul | 27%
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1881 – Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam in which African country ? | Sudan | 27%
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1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to where ? | Hawaii | 9%
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1987 – Which of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings was bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England ? | Le Pont de Trinquetaille | 0%
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1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in which Canadian province ? | Ontario | 0%
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