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On This Day (August 6th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 6th?
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1. 1538 – Which South American capital city is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ?
Quito ✓
Bogota ✓
Caracas ✓
Santiago ✓
2. 1819 – Norwich University is founded as the first private military school in the United States in which state ?
Vermont ✓
Virginia ✓
Maryland ✓
Delaware ✓
3. 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from which nation ?
Portugal ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Spain ✓
France ✓
4. 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by what means ?
Lethal Injection ✓
Hanging ✓
Firing Squad ✓
Electric Chair ✓
5. 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany and Austria declares war on which country ?
Serbia ✓
Russia ✓
Turkey ✓
United Kingdom ✓
6. 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to do what ?
Swim the English Channel ✓
Climb the Matterhorn ✓
Cast a Vote in UK ✓
Become a Priest ✓
7. 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with which movie starring John Barrymore ?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ✓
The Sea Beast ✓
Don Juan ✓
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman ✓
8. 1940 – Which country is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union ?
Lithuania ✓
Estonia ✓
Georgia ✓
Kyrgyzstan ✓
9. 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 named what ?
Butterfly Baby ✓
Dream Girl ✓
Enola Gay ✓
Black Widow ✓
10. 1962 – Which island nation becomes independent from the United Kingdom ?
Fiji ✓
New Zealand ✓
Barbados ✓
Jamaica ✓
11. 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the Australian coast dumps a record 13 inches of rain in a day on which city ?
Sydney ✓
Brisbane ✓
Perth ✓
Cairns ✓
12. 1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace in which US city ?
New York ✓
Miami ✓
Los Angeles ✓
San Francisco ✓
13. 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains what ?
Traces of Gold ✓
Evidence of primitive life-forms ✓
Particles of Uranium ✓
Evidence of Water ✓
14. 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in which African country ?
Mauritania ✓
Burkina Faso ✓
Angola ✓
Equatorial Guinea ✓
15. 2012 – NASA's rover lands on the surface of Mars. What was it's name ?
Explorer ✓
Pioneer ✓
Curiosity ✓
Viewmaster ✓
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