Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of which religious organisation ? | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 90%
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1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress is born. What was the name of her character in the Disney Channel teen series ? | Hannah Montana | 80%
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1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in which country ? | Sweden | 70%
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1963 – The BBC broadcasts "An Unearthly Child", the first episode of the first story from the first series of which long running TV show ? | Dr. Who | 50%
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2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first woman to lead an African country when she is elected president of which nation ? | Liberia | 50%
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2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean after hitting an iceberg near which island group ? | South Shetland Islands | 50%
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1936 – Which magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success ? | Life | 40%
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1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals" in a speech made in which French city ? | Strasbourg | 40%
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1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over which of the Great Lakes ? | Superior | 40%
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1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of which nation ? | Australia | 30%
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1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in which newspaper ? | New York Times | 30%
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1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to the north of which island group ? | Faroes | 20%
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1974 – Sixty politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government in which African city ? | Addis Ababa | 10%
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1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of which country after running out of fuel ? | Comoros | 10%
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1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in which city ? | San Francisco | 0%
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