Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1940 – Who is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term ? | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 86%
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1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested for trying to blow up which London building ? | Houses of Parliament | 86%
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1917 – Which leader calls for the October Revolution ? | Vladimir Lenin | 71%
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2013 – Which country launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe ? | India | 57%
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1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife does what ? | Locks the door | 57%
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2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by which company ? | 43%
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1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in which state ? | Virginia | 43%
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1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by a Miami Chief known by what name ? | Little Turtle | 29%
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Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated on this day in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and which Canadian province ? | Newfoundland and Labrador | 29%
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1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined how much ? | $100 | 14%
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1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for what type of machine ? | Automobile | 14%
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1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of an opera by which composer ? | Beethoven | 14%
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2015 – Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of which country ? | Canada | 14%
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1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel owned by which chain ? | Marriott | 14%
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1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit which Chinese city – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949 ? | Qingdao | 14%
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