| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found what ? | Convict Settlement. | 100%
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| 1836 - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, how many Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are killed ? | 187 | 67%
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| 1899 – The Bayer company registers which product as a trademark ? | Aspirin | 67%
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| 1945 – World War II: Which German city is captured by American troops ? | Cologne | 67%
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| 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over which King who loses control of Normandy ? | King John of England | 67%
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| 1992 - One of the earliest computer viruses begins to affect computers. It is named after which artist? | Michelangelo | 67%
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| 1921 - Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear what ? | Skirts below the knee | 67%
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| 1834 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as which modern day city ? | Toronto | 67%
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| 1957 – Which nation becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the UK ? | Ghana | 33%
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| 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is known to arrive at which island ? | Guam | 33%
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| 1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy and asks for political asylum in which city ? | New Delhi | 33%
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| 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193 after leaving which port ? | Zeebrugge | 33%
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| 2018 - World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula how many years previously ? | 132 | 0%
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| 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in which British Overseas Territory ? | Gibraltar | 0%
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| 1646 - Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America from the General Court of Massachusetts for what invention ? | Scythe | 0%
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| 1997 - Which of Picasso's paintings is stolen from a London gallery, and then recovered a week later ? | Tête de Femme | 0%
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