Question | Answer | % Correct |
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474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of which empire ? | Byzantine Empire | 80%
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1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked. Where did it eventually land ? | Havana, Cuba | 80%
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1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes which country killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 ? | Romania | 80%
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1983 – Bill Gates introduces which version of Windows ? | 1.0 | 60%
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2008 – NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost over five months after landing on which planet? | Mars | 60%
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1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts which childrens TV program ? | Sesame Street | 60%
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1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in which country ? | United States | 60%
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2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in which body of water ? | Yellow Sea | 60%
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1847 – The passenger ship "Stephen Whitney" is wrecked in thick fog off the coast of Ireland. The disaster results in the construction of which lighthouse ? | Fastnet Rock | 40%
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1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior. Which singer songwriter wrote a song about the event ? | Gordon Lightfoot | 40%
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1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at the Tun Tavern in which city ? | Philadelphia | 40%
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2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in which city ? | Colombo | 20%
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1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone near which African lake ? | Lake Tanganyika | 20%
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1898 – Beginning of the insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. In which city ? | Wilmington, North Carolina | 20%
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1202 – Despite letters from the Pope forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara. Zara is now known by what name ? | Zadar | 20%
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