Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of which republic ? | Republic of Texas | 91%
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1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on what ? | Beards | 82%
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1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in which country by the Jourdan law ? | France | 82%
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1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, how many people are known to have died ? | 6 | 64%
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1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins in which country ? | Switzerland | 55%
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1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from where ? | The fort's toilets | 55%
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1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in which city ? | New York | 45%
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1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and which other country ? | Niger | 45%
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1970 – Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, after being killed in practice for which Grand Prix ? | Italian | 36%
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1960 – Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome, at which weight ? | Light Heavyweight | 36%
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1960 – Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of which African country ? | Senegal | 36%
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1980 – Which road tunnel opens in Switzerland ? | Gotthard | 27%
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1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport in which country ? | Papua New Guinea | 18%
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1984 – Which state becomes the last in Australia to abolish capital punishment ? | Western Australia | 18%
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1941 – Whole territory of which country is occupied by Nazi Germany ? | Estonia | 9%
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