Statistics for On This Day (April 9th) Multiple Choice

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  • The average score is 6 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in which city ?Bogota
67%
1991 – Which country declares independence from the Soviet Union ?Georgia
67%
1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and which other state ?Kansas
67%
1969 – Which British-built aircraft makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford ?BAC Concorde
56%
1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of which river, claiming it for France ?Mississippi
56%
1957 – Which canal is cleared of debris and opened to shipping ?Suez Canal
56%
1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of which country ?Denmark
44%
2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in which town ?Windsor
33%
1388 – Forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels, despite being outnumbered by how many to 1 ?16
22%
1992 – A US Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to how many years in prison ?30
22%
1957 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer and architect, is born in which Spanish region ?Cantabria
22%
1959 – NASA announces the selection of the United States' first astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the what ?Mercury Seven
22%
1914 – One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of which country ?Mexico
22%
1937 – The first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe arrives at Croydon Airport in London. what was its name ?Kamikaze
11%
2017 – After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked flight, Dr. David Dao Duy Anh is forcibly dragged off the flight by aviation security officers on which airline ?United Airlines
11%

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