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On This Day (August 3rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 3rd?
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1. 435 – Deposed Archbishop of Constantinople, Nestorius, is exiled by Roman Emperor, Theodosius II, to a monastery in which country ?
San Marino ✓
Frankish Empire ✓
Egypt ✓
Galicia ✓
2. 1057 – Frederik van Lotharingen elected as Pope Stephen IX. He is the first Pope from which country ?
Belgium ✓
Hungary ✓
Sweden ✓
Denmark ✓
3. 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while he was in which modern day place ?
Maine ✓
Newfoundland ✓
Nova Scotia ✓
New Brunswick ✓
4. 1601 – Long War: Austria captures which European region in the Battle of Goroszló ?
Bavaria, Germany ✓
Venetia, Italy ✓
Bohemia, Czechia ✓
Transylvania, Romania ✓
5. 1811 – First ascent of which mountain by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer ?
Eiger ✓
Matterhorn ✓
Jungfrau ✓
Mont Blanc ✓
6. 1829 – The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by which two peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River ?
Cherokee and Crow ✓
Shawnee and Seneca ✓
Sioux and Shoshone ✓
Apache and Navajo ✓
7. 1900 – Which well known tyre company is founded ?
Firestone ✓
Michelin ✓
Goodyear ✓
Dunlop ✓
8. 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while which country declares its neutrality ?
Switzerland ✓
Sweden ✓
Spain ✓
Romania ✓
9. 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in which US city ?
Christmas, Michigan ✓
Santa Claus, Indiana ✓
Snowflake, Arizona ✓
Rudolph, Ohio ✓
10. 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers killing over 50 people in which city ?
Bissau ✓
Lisbon ✓
Porto ✓
Macau ✓
11. 1977 – Which corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers ?
IBM ✓
Microsoft ✓
Tandy ✓
Sinclair ✓
12. 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, in which city ?
Auckland, New Zealand ✓
Sydney, Australia ✓
Buenos Aires, Argentina ✓
Johannesburg, South Africa ✓
13. 2005 – The president of which country is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia ?
Niger ✓
Burkina Faso ✓
Mauritania ✓
Benin ✓
14. 2019 – Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in which city ?
Warsaw ✓
Moscow ✓
Sofia ✓
Baku ✓
15. 2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas. It occured in a store belonging to which company ?
Walmart ✓
Target ✓
Ikea ✓
Aldi ✓
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