| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in which country ? | Iraq | 75%
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| 1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over what ? | Panama Canal Zone | 75%
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| 1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to which country ? | South Vietnam | 75%
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| 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. On the same day in which year is the new St Peter's Basilica is consecrated ? | 1626 | 50%
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| 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing what punishment for drug traffickers ? | Death Penalty | 50%
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| 1987 – In London, 31 people die in a fire at one of the city's busiest underground stations, but which one ? | King's Cross St Pancras | 50%
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| 2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to which planet ? | Mars | 50%
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| 1971 – Oman declares its independence from which country ? | United Kingdom | 50%
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| 1760 – The rebuilt debtors' prison receives it's first prisoners at the Castellania in which city ? | Valletta | 50%
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| 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of which country ? | Greece | 25%
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| 1865 – Which Mark Twain short story is published in the New York Saturday Press ? | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | 25%
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| 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after how many days ? | 1,763 days | 0%
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| 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known by what name ? | Puerto Rico | 0%
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| 1963 – The first of which type of telephone goes into service ? | Push Button | 0%
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| 1991 – After an 87-day siege, which Croatian city capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army ? | Vukovar | 0%
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