| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to which German city to conduct a massive aerial bombardment ? | Dresden | 75%
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| 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", which country becomes the fourth nation to possess nuclear weapons ? | France | 75%
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| 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest which animal ? | Bison | 50%
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| 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying the primary river and creating the modern central boulevards in which city ? | Brussels | 50%
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| 1542 – Which wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery ? | Catherine Howard | 50%
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| 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at which airport ? | Kuala Lumpur International Airport | 50%
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| 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in which US city ? | Louisville, Kentucky | 50%
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| 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in which city for his trial before the Inquisition ? | Rome | 50%
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| 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle was born in which part of London ? | Wimbledon | 50%
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| 2012 - The European Space Agency conducts the first launch of the Vega Rocket from a spaceport in which region? | French Guiana | 25%
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| 1978 – A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman, in which Australian city ? | Sydney | 25%
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| 2021 - A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in which US state? | Texas | 25%
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| 1931 – Which institution completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi ? | The British Raj | 25%
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| 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale kills at least 944 people in which country ? | El Salvador | 0%
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| 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: Around 80 people from which clan are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange ? | MacDonald | 0%
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| 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, that appears to encase what item ? | Spark Plug | 0%
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