Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after finding what on the islands ? | Turtles | 100%
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1908 – What is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia ? | Mother's Day | 86%
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1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in which city ? | Philadelphia | 86%
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1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. What was it called ? | Rock Around The Clock | 71%
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1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes legislation that leads to the Boston Tea Party. What was the Act called ? | Tea Act | 71%
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1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in which year ? | 1972 | 57%
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1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast. What was Op. Sandblast ? | First Underwater Circumnavigation of the Earth. | 43%
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1975 – Sony introduced which product in Japan ? | Betamax Videocassette Recorder | 29%
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1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves which port city for his first voyage to the New World ? | Cadiz, Spain | 29%
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1940 – World War II: The Invasion of which country by the United Kingdom ? | Iceland | 29%
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1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed with the golden spike at which place ? | Promontory Summit, Utah | 29%
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1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on which country ? | United States | 29%
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1942 – Carl Douglas, singer-songwriter, best known for his best selling Disco hit "Kung-Fu Fighting" is born in which city ? | Kingston, Jamaica | 14%
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1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to be nominated for what role ? | President of the United States | 14%
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2005 – A hand grenade lands near to U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in which city ? | Tbilisi, Georgia | 14%
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