Statistics for On This Day (September 1st) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 11 times
  • The average score is 6 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the conflict known as what ?Cod Wars
78%
1914 – Which Russian city changes its name to Petrograd ?St. Petersburg
67%
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of which ship ?Titanic
67%
1972 – American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion in which city ?Reykjavik
56%
1420 – An earthquake shakes which desert causing tsunamis thousands of miles away ?Atacama
44%
1914 – The last known passenger pigeon dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. What was its name ?Martha
44%
1897 – The Tremont Street Subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America, in which city ?Boston
33%
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Telephone Dispatch Company in which city ?Boston, USA
33%
1981 – A coup d'état in which African country overthrows President David Dacko ?Central African Republic
33%
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of where by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England ?Pembroke
33%
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and which other country invade Poland ?Slovakia
33%
1952 – Which novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published ?The Old Man and the Sea
33%
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in which US state ?California
22%
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at which place ?.Walla Walla, Washington
22%
1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the 1st one built in which modern day country, is destroyed by natives ?Argentina
0%

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