Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1997 – Deep Blue becomes the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. Who did it beat ? | Garry Kasparov | 78%
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2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter dies on this day. What was his best known work ? | Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | 67%
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1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against which country ? | Mexico | 67%
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1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a stadium fire at which UK football club ? | Bradford City | 56%
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912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of which empire ? | Byzantine Empire | 56%
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2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by what ? | Tear Gas Thrown by Police | 56%
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1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across which mountain range ? | Blue Mountains, Australia | 33%
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1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes which National Park ? | Glacier, Montana | 33%
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1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of which building ? | House of Commons | 33%
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1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician is born, he is best known for which band ? | The Animals | 33%
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1833 – The "Lady of the Lake" strikes an iceberg and sinks with the loss of 265 people off the coast of which landmass ? | Newfoundland | 22%
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1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into which river ? | Columbia River | 11%
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1960 – Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by which intelligence service ? | Mossad | 11%
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Today is celebrated as what in New Zealand ? | National Chocolate Fish Day | 11%
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1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in which city for war crimes committed during World War II ? | Lyon | 0%
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