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This quiz has been taken 11 times
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Question	Answer	% Correct
1979 – Eight people escaped from which country to the west in a homemade hot air balloon ?	East Germany	75%
1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on which ship ?	Mayflower	75%
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from which country ?	Australia	63%
1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of which political organisation ?	Sinn Fein	63%
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of which Samuel Barber composition ?	Antony and Cleopatra	50%
1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun, the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily, prints its first issue in which city in New York state ?	Ithaca	50%
1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to do what ?	Launch a Ballistic Missile	50%
1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in which road in New York City ?	Wall Street	50%
1908 – Which major motor manufacturer is founded ?	General Motors	38%
1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert in which city ?	Istanbul	38%
2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in which Italian city ?	Naples	38%
1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around which city ?	Salerno	25%
1976 – Champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a reservoir in which Asian capital city ?	Yerevan	25%
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. He is sometimes called what ?	Old Pretender	13%
1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in which city ?	Osaka, Japan	13%

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