Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1815 – The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington. In which country is the site of the battle ? | Belgium | 100%
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2006 – The first space satellite from which former Soviet country is launched ? | Kazakhstan | 80%
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1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to do what ? | Vote in a presidential election | 80%
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1935 – Police in Vancouver, Canada clash with striking workers from which industry ? | Dock Workers | 60%
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1945 – William Joyce is charged with treason. By what name was he infamously known ? | Lord Haw Haw | 60%
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1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and which nation ? | Soviet Union | 60%
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1633 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, in which city ? | Edinburgh | 40%
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1972 – 118 people are killed when a British European Airways Trident crashes two minutes after take off from which airport ? | London Heathrow | 40%
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1178 – Five monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. Where is the Giordano bruno crater ? | The Moon | 40%
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1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath which bridge in London, England ? | Blackfriars Bridge | 20%
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1948 – Columbia Records introduces which music format in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City ? | Long Playing Vinyl Album | 20%
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1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon which city ? | Philadelphia | 20%
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1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike. Where in the UK is Orgreave ? | South Yorkshire | 20%
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1908 – The University of where is established ? | The Philippines | 20%
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1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the border setting in motion a coup d'état in which country ? | Guatemala | 0%
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