Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches which island group ? | Galápagos Islands | 100%
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2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in which city ? | Sydney, Australia | 88%
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1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in which US city ? | Philadelphia | 63%
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1945 – A hurricane strikes which part of the US, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps ? | Southern Florida | 63%
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668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in Syracuse, Italy. What was he doing at the time ? | Taking a bath | 63%
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1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit which nation ? | United States | 63%
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1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer is born. She was a founding member of which band ? | Jefferson Airplane | 50%
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1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, in which state ? | New South Wales | 38%
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1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in which Canadian province as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy ? | Quebec | 38%
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1916 – World War I: What are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme ? | Tanks | 38%
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1975 – Which French department is divided into two ? | Corse | 25%
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1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar. The Doom Bar is at the mouth of which British river ? | River Camel | 25%
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1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at what speed ? | 671 mph | 13%
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1830 – British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive known as what ? | Rocket | 13%
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1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against what ? | Nuclear Testing | 0%
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