Question | Answer | % Correct |
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2019 – Hundreds of tourists flock to which natural landmark to climb it for the last time before a ban on climbing goes into effect ? | Uluru | 100%
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1993 – Vincent Price, American actor dies. He is best known for which genre of film ? | Horror | 80%
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1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer which city ? | Lisbon | 80%
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1854 – Which battle, memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade, takes place during the Crimean War ? | Battle of Balaclava | 40%
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1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade which country, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is executed in a coup d'état ? | Grenada | 40%
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1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of which monarch ? | King George II | 40%
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1927 – The Italian luxury liner "SS Principessa Mafalda" sinks off the coast of which country ? | Brazil | 20%
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1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies in which English prison ? | Brixton | 20%
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1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain is born. He was known by what nickname ? | Butcher of Lyon | 20%
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2010 – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in which country ? | India | 20%
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285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, they are now the patron saints of which professions ? | Leather workers, curriers and shoemakers | 20%
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1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of which country ? | Republic of the Congo | 20%
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1944 – Second World War: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by what ? | The ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. | 20%
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Today is commemorated globally as what ? | World Pasta Day | 20%
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2015 – More than 200 black bears are killed in a single day in which U.S. state after officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years ? | Florida | 0%
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