Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army at Negomano on the border of which two modern-day countries ? | Mozambique and Tanzania | 80%
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1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record which song in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia ? | "Do They Know It's Christmas?" | 60%
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1947 – The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. For what reason ? | Alleged involvement with the Communist Party | 40%
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1975 – Suriname gains independence from which nation ? | Netherlands | 40%
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1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave which city three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris ? | New York | 40%
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1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Cardinal Ratzinger "Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith". He would become which Pope ? | Pope Benedict XVI | 40%
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1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap, the longest continuously-running play in history, opens at which theatre in London ? | Ambassadors Theatre | 20%
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1973 – Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis in which country ? | Greece | 20%
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1999 – A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating off the Florida coast on what type of inflatable ? | Inner Tube | 20%
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1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from which date ? | January 1, 1993 | 20%
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1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II off the coast of which country ? | Egypt | 0%
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1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese videogame designer is born. He is best known as the creator of which game series ? | Final Fantasy | 0%
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1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become which King ? | King Haakon VII | 0%
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Which dessert is celebrated in the US on this day ? | National Parfait Day | 0%
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1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in which sea, devastates the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places ? | Tyrrhenian Sea | 0%
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