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On This Day (October 29th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 29th?
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1. 1390 – The first trial for witchcraft in which European city leads to the death of three people ?
Paris
York
Hamburg
Prague
2. 1787 – Which opera by Mozart receives its first performance in Prague ?
The Marriage of Figaro
The Magic Flute
Don Giovanni
Così fan tutte
3. 1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form which organisation ?
League of Nations
International Red Cross
Medecins sans Frontieres
International Red Crescent
4. 1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed in which US state ?
Oregon
California
Washington
Idaho
5. 1944 – Which Dutch city is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division ?
Tilburg
Eindhoven
Bergen op Zoom
Breda
6. 1955 – The Soviet battleship "Novorossiysk" strikes a World War II mine in the harbour of which city ?
Murmansk
Vladivostok
Sevastopol
Archangelsk
7. 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, which future world champion boxer wins his first professional fight ?
Joe Frazier
Muhammad Ali (as Cassius Clay)
George Foreman
Ken Norton
8. 1967 – Which city's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors ?
Montreal
Chicago
London
Paris
9. 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in which African country ?
Liberia
Tanzania
Cameroon
Mozambique
10. 1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of which British motorway ?
M 40
M 60
M 14
M 25
11. 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at which building in an attempt to kill Bill Clinton ?
Capitol Building
White House
American Embassy in London
Pentagon
12. 1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in which country ?
United States
Cuba
Honduras
Belize
13. 1998 – A discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200 in which city ?
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Malmo
Uppsala
14. 2004 – Which news network broadcasts an excerpt from an Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader admits direct responsibility for the 9-11 attacks ?
CNN
BBC News
France 24
Al Jazeera
15. 2015 – China announces the end of it's One-child policy after how many years ?
40
45
35
25
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