Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is exhibited to the public for the first time. It was painted by which artist ? | Michelangelo | 83%
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1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of which country's War of Independence ? | Algeria | 67%
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1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades which country during the War of the Third Coalition ? | Austria | 50%
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1979 – Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara in which country ? | Bolivia | 50%
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1982 – Which company becomes the first Asian automobile manufacturer to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Ohio ? | Honda | 50%
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1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with ratings identified with which letters ? | G, M, R, and X | 42%
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1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in which magazine for the first time ? | National Geographic | 42%
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1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the coast of which country ? | Chile | 33%
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1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to what "experimental training" in Nevada ? | Atomic explosions | 25%
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1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in which Irish town ? | Thurles, County Tipperary | 25%
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1955 – Which war begins on this day ? | Vietnam War | 25%
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1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of which country's Lutheran community ? | Azerbaijan | 17%
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1979 – Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico. Which state ? | Colima | 17%
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2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in which Asian capital, killing 26 people and injuring 135 ? | Riyadh | 8%
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1604 – Which of William Shakespeare's plays is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London ? | Othello | 0%
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