Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1944 – World War II: Which city falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies ? | Aachen | 80%
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1953 – Eric Faulkner, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is best known as a member of which Scottish band ? | Bay City Rollers | 80%
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1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to which war ? | Crimean War | 80%
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1986 – Pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy, in which Middle Eastern country ? | Lebanon | 80%
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1774 – The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include which word ? | Liberty | 80%
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1910 – HMS Niobe arrives in which harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy ? | Halifax | 60%
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1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for which invention ? | Incandescent light bulb | 60%
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1959 – In New York City, which museum opens to the public ? | Solomon R. Guggenheim | 60%
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1966 – A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in which region of the UK, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren ? | South Wales | 60%
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1940 – The first edition of which Ernest Hemingway novel is published ? | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 40%
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1945 – Women vote for the first time during the 1945 legislative election in which country ? | France | 40%
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1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by which Pope ? | Innocent III | 20%
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1520 – João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. He calls them by what name ? | Islands of the 11,000 Virgins | 20%
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2005 – Images of which dwarf planet are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery ? | Eris | 0%
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1907 – The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of which two countries ? | Uzbekistan and Tajikistan | 0%
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