Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters which city ? | Moscow | 67%
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2007 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: Which bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years ? | Northern Rock | 67%
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1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of what ? | Strike | 67%
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1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded in which city ? | Baghdad | 50%
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1936 – Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans on which island ? | Ibiza | 50%
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1944 – World War II: Which is the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces ? | Maastricht | 50%
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1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by which Pope ? | Pope Paul VI | 33%
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1917 – The Russian Empire is formally replaced and renamed as what ? | Russian Republic | 33%
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1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded. But in which city ? | Swansea | 33%
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1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping how many days ? | Eleven | 17%
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1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and which other Pacific state join the United Nations ? | Tonga | 17%
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1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean by what means ? | Gas Balloon | 0%
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1723 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel on which island ? | Malta | 0%
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2000 – Microsoft releases which version of Windows ? | Me | 0%
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1948 – The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of an operation called what ? | Operation Polo | 0%
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