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On This Day (September 20th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 20th ?
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1. 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as which Antipope ?
Clement VII
Alexander V
Benedict XIII
John XXIII
2. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Where is Sanlucar de Barrameda ?
Portugal
Spain
Italy
France
3. 1835 – Which decade-long war starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil ?
War of the Generals
Thousand Days' War
Ragamuffin War
Contestado War
4. 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of which city by troops loyal to the East India Company ?
Mumbai
Chennai
Kolkatta
Delhi
5. 1906 – The Cunard Line's "RMS Mauretania" is launched at which port ?
Belfast
Liverpool
Newcastle upon Tyne
Southampton
6. 1942 – The Holocaust: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv in which country ?
Poland
Ukraine
Lithuania
Belarus
7. 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed due to World War II. Which British film won the most prestigious award ?
Brief Encounter
The Lost Weekend
The Third Man
Men Without Wings
8. 1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering which University ?
Princeton
Mississippi
Oxford
Harvard
9. 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched from which port ?
Portsmouth
Belfast
Clydebank
Liverpool
10. 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to do what ?
Have a name change
Reverse direction
Make landfall in the same place twice
Cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
11. 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, and five others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in which US state ?
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Florida
12. 1977 – Which Asian country is admitted to the United Nations ?
Mongolia
Vietnam
Nepal
Afghanistan
13. 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in which city ?
Beirut, Lebanon
Damascus, Syria
Amman, Jordan
Jerusalem, Israel
14. 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on ....." , what ?
Drugs
Terror
Obesity
Slavery
15. 2019 – Roughly 4 million people demonstrate against climate change. 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in which city ?
Stockholm
London
New York
Tokyo
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