Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1903 – Which major motor manufacturer is incorporated on this day ? | Ford | 67%
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1911 – What company is founded as the "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company" in Endicott, New York ? | IBM | 67%
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1940 – A Communist government is installed in which country ? | Lithuania | 50%
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2016 – The first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public in which city ? | Shanghai | 50%
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1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of which conflict ? | Wars of the Roses | 50%
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2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified orbital mission lasting how long ? | 469 days | 33%
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1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of where begins ? | Gibraltar | 33%
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1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 uprising in which country are executed ? | Hungary | 33%
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1976 – A non-violent march by 15,000 students turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd in which city ? | Soweto, South Africa | 33%
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1963 – Soviet Space Program: The Vostok 6 mission carries the first what into space ? | Woman | 33%
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1819 – An earthquake strikes Western India, raising a 6 m high, 6 km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80 km, that was known as the what ? | Dam of God | 17%
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1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his "House Divided" speech in which city ? | Springfield, Illinois | 17%
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2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on what ? | Tobacco | 17%
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1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian, one half of the "Laurel and Hardy" duo, is born in which English town ? | Ulverston | 17%
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363 – Emperor Julian retreats back up which river burning his fleet of supply ships on the way ? | Tigris | 0%
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