Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1945 – CARE was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II. What does the acronym CARE stand for ? | Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe | 63%
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1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after he had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings across England. Whic book was he a co-founder of ? | Guiness Book of Records | 63%
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1978 – City mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White in which city ? | San Francisco | 63%
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2001 – An atmosphere of which gas is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet ? | Hydrogen | 50%
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511 – King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. Lutetia is now known as which French city ? | Paris | 50%
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2009 – A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and which other city ? | St. Petersburg | 50%
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1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter is born. He is best known as the drummer in which thrash metal band ? | Anthrax | 38%
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1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to which nation's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution ? | Luxembourg | 25%
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1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for which crime in England ? | Sodomy | 25%
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1971 – The Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. Which nation built it ? | Soviet Union | 25%
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1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church is laid in which city ? | Berlin | 13%
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1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball. What other sport did she participate in ? | Horse Racing | 13%
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1989 – A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. Which organisation claimed responsibility ? | Medellín Cartel | 13%
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1942 – World War II: The French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands in which port ? | Toulon | 13%
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1868 – Battle of Washita River: U S Army Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads an attack on Native Americans from which tribe that are living on reservation land ? | Cheyenne | 0%
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