Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at which nuclear power plant ? | Chernobyl, Soviet Union | 67%
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1478 – The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in which city's Cathedral ? | Florence | 67%
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1966 – A new government, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye, is formed in which country ? | Republic of the Congo | 67%
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1933 – Which official secret police force is established ? | Gestapo | 56%
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1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor dies, for which film franchise was he best known ? | Carry On | 44%
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1956 – The "SS Ideal X" leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. She is the first of what type of vessel to be successful ? | Container Ship | 44%
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1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos on which occupied island ? | Crete | 44%
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1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at which London landmark ? | Westminster Abbey | 44%
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1777 – Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces at what age ? | 16 | 33%
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1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, which city would record the year's only F5 tornado ? | Andover, Kansas | 33%
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1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human surgery of what type ? | Open Fetal | 33%
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1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's flagship service from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years. What was it known as ? | Royal Blue | 22%
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1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes where ? | The Moon | 22%
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1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler was born this day. By what name was he known professionally ? | Crusher | 0%
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1943 – The Easter Riots break out in which city ? | Uppsala, Sweden | 0%
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