Question | Answer | % Correct |
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2018 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from which US city causes significant property damage but no deaths ? | Anchorage, Alaska | 100%
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1999 – Which two oil companies sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating the world's largest company ? | Exxon and Mobil | 80%
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1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. By what name is it better known ? | Flying Scotsman | 80%
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2001 – Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders in the USA. By what nickname was he notoriously known ? | Green River Killer | 80%
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1803 – The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against which disease in Spanish America and the Philippines ? | Smallpox | 80%
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1868 – A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the Kungsträdgården, a park in which Swedish city ? | Stockholm | 80%
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1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and which other nation ? | England | 60%
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1994 – The cruise ship MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of which country ? | Somalia | 40%
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2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of where ? | York | 40%
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1966 – Which Caribbean nation becomes independent from the United Kingdom ? | Barbados | 20%
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1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish what ? | Death Penalty | 20%
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1954 – The Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in which city in Alabama ? | Sylacauga | 20%
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1979 – Which of Pink Floyd's albums is released on this day ? | The Wall | 20%
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1853 – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in which modern day country ? | Turkey | 20%
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1886 – Which Parisian cabaret music hall stages its first revue ? | Folies Bergere | 0%
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