| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Today is also commemorated internationally as what ? | International Midwives Day | 100%
|
| 1936 – Italian troops occupy which city ? | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 0%
|
| 1961 – Which astronaut becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight ? | Alan Shepard | 0%
|
| Today is commemorated as "Martyrs' Day" in which European country ? | Albania | 0%
|
| 1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between which two cities ? | Brussels and Mechelen | 0%
|
| 1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ? | Echo and the Bunnymen | 0%
|
| 1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that what type of evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder ? | Fingerprint | 0%
|
| 1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter takes place, the only battle in which American and what other troops fought cooperatively ? | German | 0%
|
| 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms which country's embassy in London after a six-day siege ? | Iran | 0%
|
| 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on and claims which island for Spain ? | Jamaica | 0%
|
| 1992 – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): 18 people are killed when one of the terraces collapses at a football match between SC Bastia and what other team ? | Olympique de Marseille | 0%
|
| 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near which city, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. ? | Palermo | 0%
|
| 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay receives what punishment in Singapore for theft and vandalism ? | Six Strokes of the Cane | 0%
|
| 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with which composer as the guest conductor ? | Tchaikovsky | 0%
|
| 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for inventing a technique of doing what ? | Weaving Straw | 0%
|