Question | Answer | % Correct |
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2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO and is immediately followed by which country ? | Israel | 80%
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1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from which company ? | Lockheed | 80%
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1915 – World War I: Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. What was her occupation ? | Nurse | 80%
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1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of which city comes to an end ? | Athens | 60%
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1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in a bomb in a hotel in which UK city ? | Brighton | 60%
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1968 – Which African country becomes independent from Spain ? | Equatorial Guinea | 60%
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1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev does what at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion ? | Pounds his shoe on a desk | 60%
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633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Where was Hatfield Chase ? | South Yorkshire | 60%
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1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of which planet ? | Venus | 60%
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1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, but where ? | Bahamas | 40%
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1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at a children's hospital in which city ? | Boston, USA | 40%
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1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the White House. What was it known as before ? | Executive Mansion | 20%
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2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20 in which city ? | New Orleans | 20%
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1773 – America's first of what type of building opens ? | Insane Asylum | 0%
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1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to do what ? | Parachute from a balloon | 0%
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