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| 1896 – Alfred Jarry's play "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris. What happened at the end of the performance ? | A riot broke out | 100%
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| 1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on which anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death ? | Fifth | 100%
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| 1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of which country, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election ? | New Zealand | 100%
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| 1884 – Which novel by Mark Twain is published for the first time ? | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 100%
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| 1983 – Democracy is restored in which country with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín ? | Argentina | 0%
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| 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with which wife of Henry VIII ? | Catherine Howard | 0%
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| 1768 – The first edition of which reference book is published ? | Encyclopædia Britannica | 0%
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| 2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in which city kill 38 people and injure 166 others ? | Istanbul, Turkey | 0%
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| 1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in which field ? | Literature | 0%
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| 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals in which English city ? | London | 0%
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| 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy ships "HMS Prince of Wales" and "HMS Repulse" are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near which land mass ? | Malay Peninsula | 0%
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| 1817 – Which state becomes the 20th U.S. state ? | Mississippi | 0%
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| 1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam on which African river ? | Nile | 0%
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| 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in which city ? | Tokyo | 0%
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| 1963 – Which island gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah ? | Zanzibar | 0%
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