Statistics for On This Day (August 25th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 14 times
  • The average score is 6 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is injured by what animal whilst on an expedition in South Dakota ?Grizzly Bear
92%
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become which computer software operating system ?Linux
67%
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first what to Venetian lawmakers ?Telescope
67%
1825 – Which nation declares its independence from Brazil ?Uruguay
58%
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover to Calais in what time ?21 hours and 45 minutes
50%
1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit which country ?Japan
50%
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to which planet ?Saturn
50%
1980 – Which African country joins the United Nations ?Zimbabwe
42%
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first man-made object to do what ?Enter Interstellar Space
33%
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to which planet ?Neptune
33%
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 ?Poland
33%
1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's what to avert a strike ?Railroads
25%
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
17%
1940 – World War II: The first Bombing of which German city by the British Royal Air Force ?Berlin
8%
1270 – King Louis IX of France dies in which city while on the Eighth Crusade ?Tunis
0%

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