Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1783 – Laki, a volcano in which country, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine ? | Iceland | 86%
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1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as what ? | Members of the Communist Party | 71%
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1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes the country to be what type of zone ? | Nuclear Free Zone | 71%
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1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures which city, whose name is changed to one meaning "Northern Capital" ? | Peking (Beijing) | 71%
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1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was what type of device ? | Punched Card Calculator | 71%
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1867 – The Coronation of Franz Joseph takes place making him the King of which nation ? | Hungary | 57%
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793 – Vikings raid an abbey on which island, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles ? | Lindisfarne | 57%
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2009 – Two American journalists are sentenced to 12 years penal labour after being found guilty of illegally entering which country ? | North Korea | 57%
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1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in which country ? | Bosnia and Herzogovina | 43%
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1949 – Which of George Orwell's novels is published ? | Nineteen Eighty Four | 43%
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1992 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in which city ? | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 29%
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1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Government of which country ? | United Kingdom | 29%
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1959 – USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via what means ? | Rockets | 14%
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1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates which movie company ? | Universal Pictures | 14%
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1940 – World War II: The completion of the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign known as Operation what ? | Operation Alphabet | 0%
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