| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 – The International Olympic Committee bans which country from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics ? | Russia | 80%
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| 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against which nation ? | Spain | 80%
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| 1983 – The dissolution of the Military Junta takes place in which South American country ? | Argentina | 60%
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| 2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government of which island nation ? | Fiji | 60%
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| 2007 – Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills eight people, including himself, at a department store in which US city ? | Omaha, Nebraska | 60%
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| 1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in an operation named after which weapon ? | Crossbow | 40%
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| 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in which country ? | Germany | 40%
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| 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on which island ? | Hispaniola | 40%
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| 1991 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of which former Soviet republic ? | Ukraine | 40%
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| 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of what to Cambridge, Massachusetts ? | Weapons | 40%
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| 1766 – Which London auction house holds his first sale ? | Christie's | 20%
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| 1958 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of which motorway ? | M6 | 20%
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| 1931 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in which city was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin ? | Moscow | 20%
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| 1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for how long ? | Four days | 0%
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| 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds which non-profit organisation in New York City ? | National Council of Negro Women | 0%
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