Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1944 – Michelle Phillips, American singer-songwriter and actress is born. She rose to fame as a member of which 1960's group ? | The Mamas and the Papas | 75%
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1939 – The "MS St. Louis", a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, after having been already turned away from which country ? | Cuba | 63%
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1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon to do what ? | Ripen Cheese | 63%
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1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in what ? | Oklahoma City Bombing | 50%
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1943 – A military coup ousts Ramón Castillo in which country ? | Argentina | 38%
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1975 – The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act passes into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers what ? | Collective Bargaining Rights | 38%
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1561 – The steeple of St Paul's Cathedral in London, is destroyed and is never rebuilt. What destroyed it ? | Fire caused by Lightning | 38%
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1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to do what ? | Set a minimum wage | 38%
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1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to do what ? | Fly in an untethered hot air balloon | 25%
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1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at which UK race meeting ? | The Derby | 25%
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1876 – The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad how long after leaving New York City ? | 83 hours and 39 minutes | 13%
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1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure what to establish a U.S. experimental military Corps ? | Camels | 13%
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1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in which African country after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown ? | Ghana | 13%
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1970 – Which island nation gains independence from the United Kingdom ? | Tonga | 13%
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1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to which nation ? | Israel | 0%
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