Statistics for On This Day (August 20th) Multiple Choice

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  • The average score is 6 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of what ?Heresy
78%
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, by leaders of which two nations ?Israel and Palestine
67%
1940 – Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader in which city ?Mexico City
56%
1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in which city ?Moscow
56%
1944 – World War II: The Battle of which country begins with a major Soviet Union offensive ?Romania
56%
1989 – The pleasure boat "Marchioness" sinks after a collision on which British river ?Thames
56%
2012 – A prison riot kills at least 20 people in which South American city ?Caracas
44%
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost how many years of war ?Eight
44%
1866 – Which US President formally declares the American Civil War over ?Andrew Johnson
33%
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in which US city ?Detroit
33%
1977 – NASA launches which spacecraft ?Voyager 2
33%
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the fires in which US National Park ?Yellowstone
33%
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in which European city ?Berlin, Germany
11%
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in which Dutch city ?The Hague
11%
1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin in the place that became which modern day city ?Tuscon
0%

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