Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1952 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in which city ? | Helsinki | 60%
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1976 – Sagarmatha National Park is created in which country ? | Nepal | 60%
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1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of which US river to England ? | Ohio | 60%
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1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first of which sporting event ? | Tour de France | 60%
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1545 – The Tudor warship "Mary Rose" sinks off Portsmouth; in which year is the wreck salvaged ? | 1982 | 40%
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1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after how many days on the throne ? | Nine | 40%
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1900 – The first line of which city's subway system opens for operation ? | Paris | 40%
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AD 64 – The Great Fire of _____ causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of which city ? | Rome | 40%
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1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude on X-15 Flight 90. What height in kilometres did he achieve ? | 106 | 20%
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1977 – The world's first GPS signal was transmitted from Satellite NTS-2 and received at a facility in which city ? | Cedar Rapids, USA | 20%
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1940 – World War II: Army Order 112 forms which section of the British Army ? | Intelligence Corps | 20%
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1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor is born. He is best known as the inventor of which kitchen appliance ? | Microwave Oven | 20%
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1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort in which city ? | Palermo, Italy | 20%
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1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill. What was the name of the other ship ? | Aegean Captain | 0%
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1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into which country ? | North Vietnam | 0%
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