Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to which pharoah's tomb in the Valley of the Kings ? | Tutankhamun | 75%
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1783 – Which composer's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria ? | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 75%
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1970 – Salvador Allende takes office, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. In which country ? | Chile | 67%
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1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns which country's embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages ? | United States | 67%
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1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States. She was elected in which state ? | Wyoming | 58%
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2015 – NASA declares it has received the first message from interstellar space from which spacecraft ? | Voyager 2 | 50%
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1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first of what restrictions caused by the 1973 oil crisis ? | Car-Free Sunday | 42%
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1993 – China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Kai Tak Airport in which city ? | Hong Kong | 42%
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2015 – A building collapses in which city in Pakistan resulting in at least 45 deaths ? | Lahore | 42%
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1890 – London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and which other station ? | Stockwell | 42%
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1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees doing what, the first-ever observation in non-human animals ? | Creating tools | 33%
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1944 – World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies. In which modern day country is Bitola ? | North Macedonia | 33%
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1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in which Japanese city ? | Tokyo | 33%
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1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in which Italian city ? | Naples | 17%
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1839 – The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain takes place when Chartist sympathisers march on which city ? | Newport | 8%
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