Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald in which city ? | Dallas | 82%
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1718 – The Royal Navy attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach off the coast of North Carolina. By what name was Teach better known ? | Blackbeard | 73%
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1943 – Lebanon gains independence from which nation ? | France | 64%
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1995 – Which movie is released as the first feature-length film created by using only computer-generated imagery ? | Toy Story | 64%
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1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of which modern day country ? | Chile | 45%
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1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in which location ? | Melbourne, Australia | 45%
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1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular supersonic Concorde service from London to which city ? | New York | 45%
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1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in which mountainous region ? | Cairngorms | 36%
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1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek meet in which city to discuss ways to defeat Japan ? | Cairo | 36%
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2003 – England defeats which nation in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament ? | Australia | 27%
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2003 – Shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, a cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land. Which company operated the plane ? | DHL Express | 27%
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1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with which city ? | Manila | 27%
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2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of which contest ? | Miss World | 27%
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845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. What was the name of the Frankish king ? | Charles the Bald | 18%
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1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched. On what river was she built ? | River Leven | 18%
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