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On This Day (April 20th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 20th ?
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1. 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of where ?
Canada ✓
USA ✓
Mexico ✓
Africa ✓
2. 1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over which city, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan ?
Tromso ✓
Oulo ✓
Stockholm ✓
Murmansk ✓
3. 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at a battle off which island ?
Ibiza ✓
Madeira ✓
Guernsey ✓
Tenerife ✓
4. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to members of which religion in New Amsterdam (later New York) ?
Jews ✓
Muslims ✓
Buddhists ✓
Catholics ✓
5. 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of which state ?
Texas ✓
Georgia ✓
Maine ✓
Virginia ✓
6. 1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, what does the disc measure ?
Wind Speed ✓
Water Clarity ✓
Movement of Stars ✓
Atmospheric Pressure ✓
7. 1908 – Opening day of competition in the which Rugby League ?
New Zealand ✓
Scotland ✓
New South Wales ✓
Cape Province ✓
8. 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a coal-miners' strike in which state ?
Utah ✓
Oklahoma ✓
Idaho ✓
Colorado ✓
9. 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his last two victims, his final victories before his death the following day. What numbers were they ?
79th and 80th ✓
83rd and 84th ✓
70th and 71st ✓
96th and 97th ✓
10. 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to which section of the military ?
Luftwaffe ✓
Kriegsmarine ✓
Hitler Youth ✓
Infantry ✓
11. 1968 – Which English politician makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech ?
Harold Wilson ✓
Reginald Maudling ✓
Edward Heath ✓
Enoch Powell ✓
12. 1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes, killing all 53 people on board, after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in which city ?
Quito, Ecuador ✓
Bogota, Colombia ✓
Tegucigalpa, Honduras ✓
Manaus, Brazil ✓
13. 2008 – Danica Patrick becomes the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. Which race ?
Miami Indy 300 ✓
Gold Coast Indy 300 ✓
Indy Japan 300 ✓
Honda Indy Toronto ✓
14. 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last for approximately how long ?
Six Months ✓
One Year ✓
Three Months ✓
Fifteen Months ✓
15. 2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in which Chinese province ?
Guangdong ✓
Jiangxi ✓
Hubei ✓
Sichuan ✓
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NV1
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Level 51
Jul 2, 2020
By birthday! Great quiz!
toowise
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Level 78
Jul 2, 2020
Thank you and happy birthday for that day !
KentishWoman
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Level 71
Apr 18, 2022
That was hard! But I did actually know number 2: I saw the painting in Stockholm once, and it stuck in my mind. My travels have finally paid off...
toowise
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Level 78
Apr 18, 2022
Even I find these hard, and I made them.
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