| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses which river, signalling the start of civil war. | Rubicon | 100%
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| 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off what ? | The Moon | 80%
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| 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason in which famous former prison ? | Tower of London | 80%
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| 1971 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in which Northern Irish city ? | Belfast | 60%
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| 2015 - 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in which African country ? | Mozambique | 60%
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| 2023 - Legendary Rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies on this day. Apart from his own Jeff Beck Group, with which band is he most associated ? | The Yardbirds | 60%
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| 2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, dies on this day in New York City. On which island were his ashes scattered ? | Bali | 40%
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| 1943 - The 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - Franklin D Roosevelt leaves for which city ? | Casablanca, Morocco | 40%
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| Where is the 10th of January known as "Margaret Thatcher Day" ? | Falkland Islands | 40%
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| 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach near which Asian city kills at least 62 people ? | Karachi | 40%
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| 1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp weds Urilla Sutherland in which small Texas town ? | Lamar | 40%
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| 1949 - RCA introduces what speed of record ? | 45 RPM | 20%
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| 1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter, is born in which British city ? | London | 20%
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| 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from which city ? | Pittsburgh | 20%
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| 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into which sea, killing 35 people ? | Tyrrhenian Sea | 20%
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| 1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician is born on this day in London, he would eventually become the 1st Premier of which Australian state ? | Victoria | 0%
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