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Statistics for On This Day (August 12th) Multiple Choice
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- This quiz has been taken 11 times
- The average score is 6 of 15
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1949 – Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He is best known as the founder of which band ? | Dire Straits | 75%
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| 1793 – The Rhône and Loire départments of France are created when which former département is split into two ? | Rhône-et-Loire | 63%
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| 1990 – "Sue", the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in which US state ? | South Dakota | 63%
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| 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian ships and a fleet from which other empire ? | Ottoman Empire | 50%
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| 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for which invention ? | Sewing Machine | 50%
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| 1964 – Which country is banned from the Olympic Games due to it's racist policies ? | South Africa | 50%
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| 1914 – World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on which nation prompting the countries of the British Empire to follow suit ? | Austria-Hungary | 38%
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| 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 | 38%
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| 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 ? | Alençon | 25%
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| 1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in island group on his first voyage to the New World ? | Canary Islands | 25%
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| Today is known in the UK as the "Glorious Twelfth". It marks the traditional start of the shooting season for which game bird ? | Grouse | 25%
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| 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in which city ? | Moscow | 25%
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| 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first invasion by which nation ? | United Kingdom | 25%
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| 1981 – A Personal Computer is released by which company ? | IBM | 13%
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| 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 | 13%
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