Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number is introduced in London. What was the number ? | 999 | 60%
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1908 – The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over which region ? | Eastern Siberia | 60%
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1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on which date ? | July 4 | 60%
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1934 – Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. It became known as what ? | "The Night of the Long Knives" | 60%
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1974 – The municipal strike of 1974 begins in which US city ? | Baltimore | 40%
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1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed after being held for 17 days in which city ? | Beirut | 40%
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1960 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo gains independence from which country ? | Belgium | 40%
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1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against which nation's invasion of his country ? | Italy | 40%
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1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded whilst doing what ? | Jousting | 40%
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1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses what on a tightrope ? | Niagara Falls | 40%
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1916 – The Battle of the Boar's Head takes place in Richebourg-l'Avoué . It was to be known as what ? | "The Day Sussex Died" | 40%
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1953 – The first of which model of car rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan ? | Chevrolet Corvette | 20%
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2007 – A 4x4 filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance at Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. What make of car was it ? | Jeep Cherokee | 20%
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296 – Which pope begins his papacy ? | Pope Marcellinus | 0%
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2015 – Which country signed a free trade agreement with European Union ? | Vietnam | 0%
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