| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| President Truman fires this general who ran two US wars in east Asia | Douglas MacArthur | 91%
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| The US puts this couple on trial for their life on spying charges | The Rosenbergs | 91%
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| The US ends this general's plan to aid post-war Europe | George Marshall | 82%
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| After a groundbreaking Labour government, this conservative is reelected in Britain | Winston Churchill | 82%
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| This reclusive author writes The Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | 64%
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| This country's oil nationalisation programme riles Western powers | Iran | 55%
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| This revolutionary birth control system introduced | The pill | 55%
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| This Dickens adaptation's antisemitic scenes are cut in the US | Oliver Twist | 27%
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| Colour TV pictures are first broadcast in the US from this building | The Empire State Building | 27%
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| This Scottish coronation relic discovered a year after students stole it | The Stone of Scone | 27%
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