Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1915 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh mountain. The survivors were of what nationality ? | Armenian | 60%
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1913 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper is born. He famously won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in which city ? | Berlin | 60%
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1940 – What are discovered in Lascaux, France ? | Cave Paintings | 60%
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1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed by Los Macheteros, an independance faction from where ? | Puerto Rico | 60%
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1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was carrying around 15 tons of what commodity ? | Gold | 50%
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1962 – President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University in which city ? | Houston | 50%
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1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in which city ? | Newport, Rhode Island | 50%
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1994 – Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 in which place ? | White House Lawn | 40%
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1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to which city in the War of 1812 ? | Baltimore | 30%
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1848 – A new constitution marks the establishment of which country as a federal state ? | Switzerland | 30%
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1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of which land mass ? | West Africa | 20%
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1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, in which state ? | West Virginia | 20%
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1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in colour. It was shown on which US network ? | NBC | 10%
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1980 – A military coup takes place in which country ? | Turkey | 10%
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1634 – A gunpowder factory explodes in which Mediterranean city ? | Valletta | 0%
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