Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls and enter which city ? | Constantinople | 90%
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1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow whos rule over Greece ? | Ottoman Empire | 80%
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1992 – Which theme park has its official opening today ? | Disneyland Paris | 50%
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1955 – A vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective against which disease ? | Polio | 50%
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1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and what other country's ships ? | Scotland | 50%
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1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, aboard which spacecraft ? | Vostok 1 | 50%
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1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and does what to his brother Jaromír who then flees to Poland ? | Blinds him | 40%
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1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in which body of water ? | Danish Straits | 40%
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1937 – Sir Frank Whittle tests what for the first time in Rugby, England ? | Jet Engine | 40%
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2009 – Which country officially abandons its own currency ? | Zimbabwe | 40%
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1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of which city ? | Chicago | 20%
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1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in England, cause it to collapse. In which city ? | Manchester | 20%
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1877 – The United Kingdom annexes which South African region ? | Transvaal | 20%
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627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of which city ? | York | 10%
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1947 – Alex Briley, American disco singer, and member of the Village People was born today, which character did he portray in the band ? | The G.I. | 0%
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