Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting which monument ? | Mount Rushmore | 83%
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1957 – What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth ? | Sputnik 1 | 83%
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1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against which Leader rally outside ? | Boris Yeltsin | 67%
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1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed as which country ? | Lesotho | 67%
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2006 – Which controversial website is launched ? | WikiLeaks | 67%
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1824 – Which country adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic ? | Mexico | 33%
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1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College opens as the first public college in which US state ? | Texas | 33%
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AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese city of Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. Cnang'an is known by what name today ? | Xi'an | 33%
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1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of over 633 miles per hour. But where ? | Black Rock Desert, Nevada | 17%
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1883 – First meeting of which organisation in Glasgow, Scotland ? | Boys Brigade | 17%
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2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant missile from which country ? | Ukraine | 17%
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1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now which US state ? | Georgia | 0%
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1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in which country ? | Mozambique | 0%
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1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by which Pope ? | Pope Gregory XIII | 0%
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1883 – The first run of the Orient Express departs from Paris to Istanbul (then Constantinople). The last leg was by ferry from which city ? | Varna, Bulgaria | 0%
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