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On This Day (August 2nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 2nd?
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1. 1343 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to take revenge by attacking shipping in which area ?
Mediterranean Sea
English Channel
Caribbean Sea
Baltic Sea
2. 1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot. The Southampton Plot was a plan to do what ?
Depose the King
Smuggle contraband
Fraudulently collect taxes
Fund piracy
3. 1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as what ?
Ungava Bay
Baffin Bay
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Hudson Bay
4. 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in which city ?
Paris
London
Rome
New York
5. 1914 – World War I: The German occupation of country begins ?
Luxembourg
Belgium
Switzerland
Denmark
6. 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in which city ?
Toronto
Montreal
Vancouver
Calgary
7. 1922 – What kills more than 50.000 people in Shantou, Republic of China ?
Tsunami
Typhoon
Virus
Earthquake
8. 1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of which President ?
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
William Howard Taft
9. 1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches to Britain. How many ships were in the convoy ?
212
149
304
166
10. 1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. The wreckage would not be found until which year ?
1976
1998
2011
1983
11. 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre on which European island ?
Sylt
Ibiza
Isle of Man
Capri
12. 1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in which Italian city ?
Parma
Bologna
Verona
Perugia
13. 1989 – Which country is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Zambia
Namibia
14. 1990 – Iraq invades which country ?
Iran
Syria
Jordan
Kuwait
15. 2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at which airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries but no fatalities ?
Liverpool John Lennon Airport, UK
Cayenne Felix Eboue Airport, French Guiana
Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada
Douala International Airport, Cameroon
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Level 53
Aug 2, 2020
Good quiz!
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Level 78
Aug 2, 2020
Thank you !