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On This Day (August 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 12th?
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1. 1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in island group on his first voyage to the New World ?
Azores ✓
Madeira ✓
Canary Islands ✓
Balearic Islands ✓
2. 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian ships and a fleet from which other empire ?
Ottoman Empire ✓
Holy Roman Empire ✓
Grand Duchy of Lithuania ✓
Persian Empire ✓
3. 1793 – The Rhône and Loire départments of France are created when which former département is split into two ?
Liamone ✓
Seine-et-Oise ✓
Bouches-de-l'Escaut ✓
Rhône-et-Loire ✓
4. 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first invasion by which nation ?
France ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Spain ✓
Portugal ✓
5. 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for which invention ?
Gas Street Lantern ✓
Printing Press ✓
Sewing Machine ✓
Milling Process ✓
6. 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. What animal was the quagga a sub species of ?
Zebra ✓
Llama ✓
Antelope ✓
Wombat ✓
7. 1914 – World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on which nation prompting the countries of the British Empire to follow suit ?
Germany ✓
Austria-Hungary ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Ottoman Empire ✓
8. 1944 – Which city is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces ?
Reims ✓
Clermont - Ferrand ✓
Grenoble ✓
Alençon ✓
9. 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in which city ?
Berlin ✓
Moscow ✓
Rome ✓
Damascus ✓
10. 1953 – The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s", the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb. What did the US call the bomb ?
Joe 4 ✓
Joe 90 ✓
Joe 1 ✓
Joe 30 ✓
11. 1964 – Which country is banned from the Olympic Games due to it's racist policies ?
Saudi Arabia ✓
North Korea ✓
South Africa ✓
Cuba ✓
12. 1981 – A Personal Computer is released by which company ?
Apple ✓
IBM ✓
Commodore ✓
Sinclair ✓
13. 1990 – "Sue", the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in which US state ?
Montana ✓
North Dakota ✓
Wyoming ✓
South Dakota ✓
14. 1949 – Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He is best known as the founder of which band ?
Dire Straits ✓
Whitesnake ✓
Police ✓
Supertramp ✓
15. Today is known in the UK as the "Glorious Twelfth". It marks the traditional start of the shooting season for which game bird ?
Duck ✓
Pheasant ✓
Grouse ✓
Partridge ✓
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