Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1859 – Charles Darwin publishes which of his works ? | On the Origin of Species | 100%
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1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called what ? | Texas Rangers | 75%
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1863 – American Civil War: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain near which Tennessee city ? | Chattanooga | 50%
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2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in which Asian capital city kills at least 112 people ? | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 50%
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1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts for how long ? | Four months | 38%
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1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor is born. He is known in his homeland by what nickname ? | The Big Yin | 38%
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1932 – The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens in which city ? | Washington DC | 38%
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2016 – The government of Colombia and the People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's civil war that had lasted for how long ? | 52 years | 25%
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1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, is one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, but in which country ? | France | 25%
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1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from where ? | Northern Mariana Islands | 25%
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1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in which ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon ? | Pacific | 25%
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1971 – A hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money over which US state ? | Washington | 13%
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1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to which of the Allied forces ? | Free French Forces | 0%
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1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father abdicates. What was his fathers name ? | Hugh IV | 0%
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1962 – Which influential British satirical television programme is first broadcast ? | That Was The Week That Was | 0%
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