Statistics for On This Day (August 24th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 10 times
  • The average score is 7 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for what ?Bubonic Plague
86%
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to which organisation ?United Nations
86%
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for which construction project ?Panama Canal
71%
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines which heavenly body ?Pluto
71%
1995 – Which Microsoft product was released to the public in North America ?Windows 95
71%
1482 – The town and castle of which town is captured from Scotland by an English army ?Berwick upon Tweed
57%
1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in which country ?Poland
57%
410 – The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage which city ?Rome
57%
1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept what ?The Book of Common Prayer
43%
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 ?Cadiz
29%
1967 – The Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing what from the viewing gallery ?Dollar Bills
29%
1911 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of which country ?Portugal
29%
1891 – Thomas Edison patents which of his inventions ?Movie Camera
14%
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop from Los Angeles to where ?Newark, New Jersey
14%
1914 – World War I: German troops capture which Belgian city ?Namur
0%

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