Statistics for On This Day (August 2nd) Multiple Choice

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

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as what ?Hudson Bay
83%
1990 – Iraq invades which country ?Kuwait
58%
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 ?1998
50%
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in which city ?London
50%
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in which Italian city ?Bologna
42%
1989 – Which country is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.Pakistan
42%
1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in which city ?Vancouver
42%
1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot. The Southampton Plot was a plan to do what ?Depose the King
33%
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 ?English Channel
33%
1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre on which European island ?Isle of Man
33%
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 ?Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada
33%
1922 – What kills more than 50.000 people in Shantou, Republic of China ?Typhoon
33%
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 ?166
17%
1914 – World War I: The German occupation of country begins ?Luxembourg
17%
1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of which President ?Warren G. Harding
17%

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