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| 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in which city ? | Athens | 100%
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| 2013 – Two bombs explode killing three people and injuring 264 near the finish line at which sporting event ? | Boston Marathon | 100%
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| 1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, now a suburb of which city ? | Chicago | 100%
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| 2019 – Which cathedral is seriously damaged by a large fire ? | Notre Dame de Paris, France | 100%
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| 2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of which volcano leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe ? | Eyjafjallajökull | 80%
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| 1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first what ? | Road Atlas | 80%
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| 1071 – The last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard. Which city was it ? | Bari | 20%
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| 1941 – Two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack which city, killing around one thousand people ? | Belfast | 20%
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| 1997 - America On Line (AOL) begins a service in which country ? | Japan | 20%
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| 1755 – "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London by which author ? | Samuel Johnson | 20%
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| 1989 – A human crush occurs, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans, at Hillsborough Stadium, home of which soccer team ? | Sheffield Wednesday | 20%
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| 1965 - The NFL changes its penalty flag to yellow from which colour ? | White | 20%
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| 1793 - The Bank of England issues its first note of which denomination ? | £5 | 0%
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| 1952 – First flight of which Boeing aircraft ? | B-52 Stratofortress | 0%
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| 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded a school for what type of student in Hartford, Connecticut ? | Deaf | 0%
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