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On This Day (December 23rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 23rd?
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1. 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of which Mayan city ?
Becan ✓
Palenque ✓
Yaxchilan ✓
Chichen Itza ✓
2. 1572 – Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in which now German city for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs ?
Heidelburg ✓
Cologne ✓
Trier ✓
Lubeck ✓
3. 1815 – Which novel by Jane Austen is first published ?
Pride and Prejudice ✓
Mansfield Park ✓
Sense and Sensibility ✓
Emma ✓
4. 1876 – First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in which region ?
Maghreb ✓
Anatolia ✓
Balkans ✓
Levant ✓
5. 1893 – Which opera by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed ?
Hansel and Gretel ✓
Die Heirat wider Willen ✓
Dornröschen ✓
Königskinder ✓
6. 1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in which African city ?
Tripoli ✓
Tangier ✓
Cairo ✓
Dar es Salaam ✓
7. 1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to a 1910 copyright treaty signed in which city ?
Bogota ✓
Buenos Aires ✓
Brasilia ✓
Belo Horizonte ✓
8. 1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies which island ?
Guam ✓
Christmas Island ✓
Nauru ✓
Wake Island ✓
9. 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. Bell Labs is now owned by which tech company ?
Sony ✓
Nokia ✓
Apple ✓
Huawei ✓
10. 1954 – The first successful transplant of which organ is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray ?
Heart ✓
Kidney ✓
Liver ✓
Lung ✓
11. 1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in which country ?
North Korea ✓
Iran ✓
Venezuela ✓
Somalia ✓
12. 1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes which Central American capital killing more than 10,000 ?
Panama City ✓
Mexico City ✓
San Salvador ✓
Managua ✓
13. 1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster, that survived by resorting to cannabalism, are rescued after how many days ?
98 ✓
73 ✓
52 ✓
101 ✓
14. 1990 – In a referendum, 88.5% of which country's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia ?
Croatia ✓
Macedonia ✓
Slovenia ✓
Bosnia and Herzegovina ✓
15. 2007 – An agreement is made for the Kingdom of which nation to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state ?
Nepal ✓
Bhutan ✓
Rwanda ✓
Fiji ✓
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