Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1815 – Napoleon begins his exile on which island in the Atlantic Ocean ? | St. Helena | 100%
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1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of which modern medicine ? | Birth Control Pill | 83%
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1917 – World War I: Dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage. What was her nationality ? | Dutch | 83%
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1994 – The Clinton administration returns which country's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide ? | Haiti | 83%
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1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent in a suburb of which French city ? | Paris | 83%
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1809 – The Viceroy the Río de la Plata, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, opens which port to trade with nations other than Spain ? | Buenos Aires | 67%
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1932 – Tata Airlines makes its first flight. By what name was it later known ? | Air India | 50%
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1979 – A coup d'état in overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins a 12 year-long Civil War in which country ? | El Salvador | 50%
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1956 – The first modern computer language is first shared with the coding community.What was it called ? | FORTRAN | 50%
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1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst in which of the United States ? | New Jersey | 50%
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1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to which planet ? | Saturn | 50%
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1529 – The siege of which city ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion ? | Vienna | 50%
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2003 – China launches its first manned space mission. What was the craft called ? | Shenzhou 5 | 33%
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2005 – A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in which city ? | Toledo, Ohio | 33%
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2007 – Seventeen activists are arrested in which country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids ? | New Zealand | 17%
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