Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to do what legally ? | Cast a Vote | 80%
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1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in which state ? | South Carolina | 80%
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1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in which country ? | United States | 80%
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1930 – Democratically elected president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup in which country ? | Argentina | 60%
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1620 – The Pilgrims sail from which English port on the Mayflower to settle in North America ? | Plymouth | 60%
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1944 – World War II: Which city in Belgium is liberated by Allied forces ? | Ypres | 60%
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1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Approximately how many people watched on TV worldwide ? | 2.5 billion | 40%
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1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Where is La Gomera ? | Canary Islands | 40%
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1916 – The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in which US city ? | Memphis, Tennessee | 40%
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2013 – Forty one elephants are poisoned by poachers in Hwange National Park in which country ? | Zimbabwe | 40%
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1885 – The autonomous territory of Eastern Rumelia declares its union with which European country ? | Bulgaria | 20%
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1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting in which South African city ? | Cape Town | 20%
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1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and taken to Dawson's Field airstrip in which country ? | Jordan | 20%
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1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to which century in the Blackfriars area of London ? | Second Century AD | 20%
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1642 – England's Parliament bans what activity ? | Stage Plays | 20%
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