Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1988 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice, the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. Off the coast of where ? | Alaska, USA | 70%
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1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of what ? | Far side of the Moon | 70%
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1840 – Willem II becomes King of which nation ? | Netherlands | 60%
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1996 – Which news channel begins broadcasting ? | Fox News | 50%
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1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University in the most lopsided college football game in American history. What was the score ? | 222 - 0 | 40%
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1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris by what means ? | Hot Air Balloon | 40%
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1477 – Which Swedish university is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year ? | Uppsala | 40%
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1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. in which state ? | Massachusetts | 30%
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1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people on which island ? | Puerto Rico | 20%
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1864 – American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in which Brazilian seaport ? | Salvador | 20%
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1944 – World War II: During an uprising, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV, in which concentration camp ? | Birkenau | 10%
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1919 – Which airline, the oldest still operating under its original name, is founded ? | KLM | 10%
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1912 – The Stock Exchange of which city sees its first transaction ? | Helsinki | 0%
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1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. What was it's original name ? | Project Astronaut | 0%
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2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first asteroid impact detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere. It exploded over which country ? | Sudan | 0%
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