Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in which city ? | Tokyo | 67%
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2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Camp Chapman, a key facility of the CIA in which country ? | Afghanistan | 50%
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1460 – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win which battle ? | Battle of Wakefield | 50%
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1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. Where was his body found ? | In a Moscow river | 50%
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2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in which city kills 194 ? | Buenos Aires | 33%
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999 – The combined forces of Munster and Meath inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin in what is now which Irish county ? | County Kildare | 33%
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1905 – Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell in which US state ? | Idaho | 33%
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1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in which city ? | Manila | 33%
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1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. The majority of the land is in which state ? | Arizona | 17%
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2017 – In a bid to reduce accidents Nepal bans solo climbers, double amputees and climbers with which other disability from scaling its mountains ? | Blind | 17%
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1916 – The last coronation in which country is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita ? | Hungary | 17%
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1993 – Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with which nation ? | Ireland | 17%
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2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed. It is the 2nd largest airport in Europe after which other facility ? | Paris - Charles de Gaulle | 17%
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1952 – An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes on which island after an engine failure ? | Malta | 0%
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1935 – The Italian Air Force bombs a Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. Which nation operated the hospital ? | Sweden | 0%
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