| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 999 - Gerbert of Aurillac elected as the first French what ? | Pope | 88%
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| 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a what ? | Communist | 81%
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| 1972 - New York Mets manager Gil Hodges collapses just minutes after completing a round of golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, and dies of what condition ? | Heart Attack | 69%
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| 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases what disease ? | Anthrax | 56%
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| 2015 – Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in which area of London ? | Hatton Garden | 44%
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| 1932 - Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for which kidnapped relative ? | Son | 44%
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| 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in which city ? | Vienna, Austria | 38%
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| 1827 - US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing what ? | Lead Pencils | 31%
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| 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in which St. Petersburg building ? | Mariinsky Palace | 31%
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| 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in which city ? | Los Angeles | 25%
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| 2011 - Grammy Awarded singer Michael Buble weds actress-model Luisana Lopilato at the Villa Maria Paz private mansion near which city ? | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 19%
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| 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. It was known to the Argentinians as Operation ...what ? | Rosario | 13%
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| 1986 - Four US passengers are killed by a bomb at a TWA counter in which airport ? | Athens Airport, Greece | 6%
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| 1905 - A long distance railway opens between which two cities ? | Cairo and Capetown | 6%
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| 1965 - Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cops, was born in which city ? | Sacramento | 6%
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