Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1926 – Which country is admitted to the League of Nations ? | Germany | 83%
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1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her what ? | Miss America | 83%
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1504 – Which of Michelangelo's creations is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence ? | Statue of David | 83%
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1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests occurs in which European country ? | Malta | 67%
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1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to what ? | Wildfires | 67%
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1966 – Which American science fiction television series premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap" ? | Star Trek | 50%
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1946 – A referendum abolishes what in Bulgaria ? | The Monarchy | 50%
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1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of which country ? | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 50%
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1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in which village in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people ? | Burwell | 33%
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1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on which of the Great Lakes ? | Michigan | 33%
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1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, in which state ? | Montana | 33%
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2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open on which planet ? | Earth | 17%
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1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in which city, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles ? | Los Angeles | 17%
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1991 – Which European nation becomes independent ? | Macedonia | 17%
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1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found in which area of the city ? | Spitalfields | 17%
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