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On This Day (August 26th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 26th?
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1. 1444 – A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near which Swiss city ?
Zurich
Basel
Geneva
Interlaken
2. 1542 – Francisco de Orellana completed the first known navigation of which river ?
Amazon
Nile
Volga
Mekong
3. 1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America is founded in which city ?.
Boston
Memphis
Baltimore
Philadelphia
4. 1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board which ship ?.
HMS Discovery
HMS Adventure
HMS Endeavour
HMS Resolution
5. 1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in which country ?
Poland
Slovenia
Norway
Morocco
6. 1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for which invention ?
Steamboat
Belt Buckle
Childrens Swing
Potters Wheel
7. 1883 – The 1883 eruption of which volcano begins its final, paroxysmal, stage ?
Vesuvius
Tambora
Krakatoa
Popocatépetl
8. 1914 – World War I: Which German colony surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign ?
Kamerun
German Samoa
German East Africa
Togoland
9. 1940 – Which country becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor ?
Chad
Senegal
Djibouti
Gabon
10. 1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters which French city ?
Lyon
Paris
Marseille
Bordeaux
11. 1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of which region ?
Newfoundland
Catalonia
Quebec
Corsica
12. 1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as which Pope ?
John Paul I
John Paul II
Paul VI
Benedict XVI
13. 1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in which Nevada community ?
Reno
Stateline
Carson City
Jackpot
14. 2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for how many years ?
22
6
14
18
15. 1910 – Mother Teresa, nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate is born in which Eastern European city ?
Cluj
Tirana
Skopje
Krakow
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