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On This Day (December 17th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 17th?
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1. 1538 – Which Pope excommunicates Henry VIII of England ?
Pope Paul III
Pope Julius III
Pope Clement VII
Pope Marcellus II
2. 1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo in which modern day Mexican city ?
Monterrey
Mexico City
Merida
Guadalajara
3. 1835 – The second Great Fire destroys 50 acres of which city's Financial District ?
London
Frankfurt
Tokyo
New York
4. 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by which composer ?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jean Sibelius
Franz Schubert
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. 1892 – The first issue of which magazine is published ?
Harper's Bazaar
Reader's Digest
Vanity Fair
Vogue
6. 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned the first King of which country ?
Nepal
Bhutan
Thailand
Philippines
7. 1913 – A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual rapid transit system of which US city ?
Cleveland
Cincinatti
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
8. 1918 – Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in which Australian city ?
Hobart
Cairns
Alice Springs
Darwin
9. 1933 – The first NFL Championship Game is played. The game was at Wrigley Field between the New York Giants and which other team ?
Philadelphia Eagles
Chicago Bears
Dallas Cowboys
San Francisco 49ers
10. 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of which element ?
Americium
Plutonium
Uranium
Neptunium
11. 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in the North of which island ?
Java
Sulawesi
New Guinea
Borneo
12. 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile from which state ?
Florida
Texas
Nevada
New Mexico
13. 1967 – Harold Holt, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, Australia and is presumed drowned. Which official position did he hold ?
Minister of Finance
Leader of the House
Prime Minister
Attorney General
14. 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of which phenomenon ?
Apparitions
Cloud formations
UFOs
Volcanic lightning
15. 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at which London department store ?
Fortnum and Mason
Harrods
Selfridges
Harvey Nichols
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