| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate who ? | Queen Elizabeth I | 67%
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| 1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in which city ? | Sao Paulo | 56%
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| 1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police by means of a ricin pellet fired from what ? | Umbrella | 56%
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| 1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at a zoo in which Australian city ? | Hobart, Tasmania | 44%
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| 1996 – Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in which city ? | Las Vegas | 44%
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| 1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage between which two cities ? | Liverpool to New York | 44%
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| 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of which city ? | Cape Town | 22%
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| 1942 – World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay. Milne Bay is in which modern day country ? | Papua New Guinea | 22%
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| 1965 – Vietnam War: United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate an Operation known as what on the Batangan Peninsula ? | Piranha | 22%
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| 1979 – Which vehicle manufacturer asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy ? | Chrysler | 11%
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| 2005 – Which country holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election ? | Egypt | 11%
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| 1876 – Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob a bank but are driven off by armed citizens in which city ? | Northfield, Minnesota | 11%
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| 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in a vessel named what ? | Turtle | 11%
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| 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with which country by closing its embassy and ordering the expulsion of diplomats from Ottawa ? | Iran | 0%
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| 878 – Louis II is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII. By what name was Louis II otherwise known ? | Louis the Stammerer | 0%
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