Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England for Australia, with eleven ships full of what ? | Convicts | 100%
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1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in which city after being convicted of treason ? | The Hague | 80%
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1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in what place ? | Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City | 60%
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1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer, is born. What was his nickname ? | Brown Bomber | 40%
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1950 – Stevland Hardaway Judkins, American singer-songwriter, and pianist, is also born on this day. By what name is he better known ? | Stevie Wonder | 40%
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1943 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in which country ? | Tunisia | 40%
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1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first person to circumnavigate the world by what means of transport ? | Amphibious Vehicle | 20%
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1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from who ? | Colombia | 20%
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1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to achieve which feat ? | Conquer Everest without Oxygen or Sherpas | 20%
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1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the first Muslim President of which country ? | India | 20%
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2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on which road ? | Mexican Federal Highway 40 | 20%
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1950 – The very first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at which circuit ? | Silverstone, UK | 20%
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1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become which U.S. state ? | Tennessee | 20%
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1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his what ? | Electric Railway | 0%
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1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to which other city ? | Kotri | 0%
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