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On This Day (August 25th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 25th?
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1.
1270 – King Louis IX of France dies in which city while on the Eighth Crusade ?
Tunis
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Rome
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Damascus
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Cairo
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2.
1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit which country ?
Argentina
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Chile
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Japan
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Mongolia
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3.
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first what to Venetian lawmakers ?
Micrometer
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Telescope
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Proportional compass
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Thermometer
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4.
1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is injured by what animal whilst on an expedition in South Dakota ?
Bison
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Mountain Lion
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Coyote
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Grizzly Bear
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5.
1825 – Which nation declares its independence from Brazil ?
Paraguay
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Bolivia
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Uruguay
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Peru
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6.
1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in which newspaper, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon ?
The New York Sun
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London Gazette
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Le Monde
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Chicago Tribune
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7.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover to Calais in what time ?
19 hours and 35 minutes
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26 hours and 10 minutes
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22 hours and 15 minutes
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21 hours and 45 minutes
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8.
1939 – The United Kingdom and which country form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend the other in case of invasion by a foreign power ?
France
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Poland
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Denmark
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Belgium
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9.
1940 – World War II: The first Bombing of which German city by the British Royal Air Force ?
Dusseldorf
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Cologne
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Berlin
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Frankfurt
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10.
1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's what to avert a strike ?
Dockyards
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Railroads
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Airports
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Power Stations
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11.
1980 – Which African country joins the United Nations ?
Tanzania
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Mozambique
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Equatorial Guinea
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Zimbabwe
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12.
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to which planet ?
Saturn
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Neptune
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Uranus
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Jupiter
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13.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to which planet ?
Saturn
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Neptune
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Uranus
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Jupiter
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14.
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become which computer software operating system ?
Ubuntu
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Android
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Linux
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Unix
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15.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first man-made object to do what ?
Take photos of Pluto
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Enter Interstellar Space
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Land on Neptune
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Lose contact with Earth
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