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On This Day (August 24th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 24th?
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Last updated: August 24, 2020
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1.
410 – The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage which city ?
Athens
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Damascus
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Rome
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Constantinople
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2.
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for what ?
Harvest Failure
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Bubonic Plague
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Extreme Weather
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Rising Taxes
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3.
1482 – The town and castle of which town is captured from Scotland by an English army ?
Berwick upon Tweed
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Carlisle
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Alnwick
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Hawick
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4.
1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept what ?
Standard taxation
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Conscription
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The Book of Common Prayer
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Food Hygiene Standards
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5.
1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of which city ?
Valencia
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Salamanca
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Bilbao
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Cadiz
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6.
1891 – Thomas Edison patents which of his inventions ?
Phonograph
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Movie Camera
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Incandescent Light Bulb
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Carbon Microphone
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7.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for which construction project ?
Panama Canal
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Woolworth Building, New York
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Royal Albert Hall, London
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Suez Canal
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8.
1911 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of which country ?
Spain
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Peru
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Brazil
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Portugal
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9.
1914 – World War I: German troops capture which Belgian city ?
Charleroi
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Namur
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Mons
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Liege
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10.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop from Los Angeles to where ?
Boston, Massachusetts
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Wilmington, North Carolina
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Newark, New Jersey
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Jacksonville, Florida
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11.
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to which organisation ?
United Nations
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NATO
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European Union
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OPEC
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12.
1967 – The Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing what from the viewing gallery ?
Fake Blood
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Eggs
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Dollar Bills
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13.
1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in which country ?
Hungary
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Poland
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Romania
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Yugoslavia
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14.
1995 – Which Microsoft product was released to the public in North America ?
Word
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Excel
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Windows 95
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Minecraft
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15.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines which heavenly body ?
Pluto
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Ganymede
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The Moon
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The Sun
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