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On This Day (June 20th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on June 20th?
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1. 1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by pirates of which nationality ?
Algerian
Spanish
Egyptian
English
2. 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England in which town ?
Monmouth
Macclesfield
Bridgwater
Dorchester
3. 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of which country, is assassinated ?
Nepal
Romania
Ethiopia
Uruguay
4. 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in which Canadian city ?
Hamilton, Ontario
Saint John, New Brunswick
Truro, Nova Scotia
Regina, Saskatchewan
5. 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs on the explorer ship "Zarya", from which Russian port never to return ?
Murmansk
Archangelsk
Vladivostok
St. Petersburg
6. 1942 – The Holocaust: Four prisoners dressed as SS guards, steal an SS staff car and escape from which concentration camp ?
Dachau
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
7. 1945 – The U.S. Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under which operation ?
Operation Paperclip
Operation Blackboard
Operation Nighthawk
Operation Deckchair
8. 1948 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Communists respond by doing what four days later ?
Introducing the East German Mark
Imposing the Berlin Blockade
Prohibiting importation of currency
Raising taxation on foreign nationals
9. 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France. It later splits into Mali and which other country ?
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Senegal
Burkina Faso
10. 1963 – The Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish a permanent link between Washington and Moscow. It becomes known as what ?
Presidential Line
Hotline to Hell
Superpower Exchange
Red Telephone Link
11. 1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in which city, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre ?
Buenos Aires
Sao Paolo
Santiago
Asuncion
12. 1975 – Which film is released in the US, starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters" ?
The Towering Inferno
Jaws
Rocky
Smokey and the Bandit
13. 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in which US city ?
Corpus Christi, Texas
Bakersfield, California
St. Petersburg, Florida
Fort Wayne, Indiana
14. 1940 – John Mahoney, English actor, best known for playing Martin Crane in "Frasier" is born in which British seaside town ?
Blackpool
Aberystwyth
Brighton
Great Yarmouth
15. Today is a national food day in the US. What is it called ?
National Swedish Meatball Day
National Cheese Fondue Day
National Mississippi Mud Pie Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
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