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On This Day (August 1st) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 1st?
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1. 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters which city, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic ?
Damascus ✓
Baghdad ✓
Jerusalem ✓
Alexandria ✓
2. 607 – Ono no Imoko, Japanese politician, is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in which country ?
Tibet ✓
Persia ✓
China ✓
Brunei ✓
3. 1469 – Louis XI of France founds a chivalric order in Amboise, named after which saint ?
Order of Saint Michael ✓
Order of Saint Christopher ✓
Order of Saint Patrick ✓
Order of Saint Paul ✓
4. 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers which gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele ?
Nitrogen ✓
Hydrogen ✓
Helium ✓
Oxygen ✓
5. 1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in which US city ?
Philadelphia ✓
San Francisco ✓
Phoenix ✓
Savannah ✓
6. 1893 – Henry Perky patents which food product ?
Peanut Butter ✓
Shredded Wheat ✓
Spam ✓
Marmite ✓
7. 1914 – The German Empire declares war on which other Empire at the opening of World War I ?
British ✓
Ottoman ✓
Russian ✓
Austria-Hungary ✓
8. 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. Which city lost out to Berlin in the race to hold the games ?
Barcelona ✓
Brussels ✓
Paris ✓
Rome ✓
9. 1943 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy what ?
Serbian railway sidings ✓
Romanian oil fields ✓
Italian submarine base ✓
Norwegian castle ✓
10. 1960 – Dahomey declares independence from France. The country is renamed as what ?
Burundi ✓
Malawi ✓
Togo ✓
Benin ✓
11. 1960 – Which city is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan ?
Lahore ✓
Karachi ✓
Islamabad ✓
Hyderabad ✓
12. 1965 – Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in which year ?
2003 ✓
1985 ✓
1971 ✓
2016 ✓
13. 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by which former Beatle, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City ?
John Lennon ✓
George Harrison ✓
Paul McCartney ✓
Ringo Starr ✓
14. 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video. What was it ?
"You Better You Bet" by The Who ✓
"We Don't Talk Anymore" by Cliff Richard ✓
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles ✓
"Take It on the Run" by REO Speedwagon ✓
15. 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in which South American city ?
Asuncion, Paraguay ✓
Rio de Janiero, Brazil ✓
Caracas, Venezuela ✓
Lima, Peru ✓
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