Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. Cuzco is in which modern day country ? | Peru | 100%
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1889 – Which country is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup ? | Brazil | 86%
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1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in which European city ? | Geneva | 86%
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1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in which country ? | Netherlands | 86%
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1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a plane forcing it to make an emergency landing. On what route was the flight ? | Chicago to Washington D.C. | 71%
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2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits which country, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest ? | Bangladesh | 57%
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1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in which body of water ? | Barents Sea | 57%
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2006 – An English language service of which news channel launches worldwide ? | Al Jazeera | 43%
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1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that which people are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps" ? | Gypsies | 43%
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1962 – Jetpunk user "toowise" is born in which town in the UK ? | Nantwich, Cheshire | 43%
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1955 – The first part of which city's Metro is opened ? | St. Petersburg | 43%
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1926 – The NBC radio network opens with how many stations ? | 24 | 29%
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1971 – Which company releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004 ? | Intel | 29%
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1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of which memorial ? | Jefferson Memorial | 14%
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1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in which European capital city is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows ? | Valletta | 14%
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