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On This Day (August 7th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 7th?
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Last updated: August 7, 2020
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1.
936 – Coronation of which king of Germany ?
King Charles "The Fat"
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King Otto I "The Great"
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King Arnulf "The Bad"
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King Otto II "The Red"
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2.
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed as what ?
Purple Heart
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Red Heart
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Blue Heart
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Green Haert
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3.
1786 – The first federal what is created by the United States ?
Tax Collector
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National Park
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Police Force
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Indian Reservation
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4.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in the west of which state ?
Connecticut
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Massachusetts
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Pennsylvania
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Maryland
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5.
1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and which other team ?
Scotch College
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Geelong
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St. Kilda Grammar
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South Yarra
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6.
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York to where ?
Los Angeles
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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San Diego
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7.
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and which other city ?
Buffalo, New York
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Detroit, Michigan
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Niagara Falls, New York
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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
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8.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war in which island group ?
Marshall Islands
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Wallace and Futuna Islands
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Solomon Islands
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Northern Mariana Islands
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9.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. It is better known by what name ?
Yale Mark II
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Harvard Mark I
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Princeton Mark I
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The Cambridge Calculator
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10.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's raft the "Kon-Tiki", hits the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. What was it made of ?
Balsa Wood
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Bamboo
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Bundled Reeds
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Pine Logs
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11.
1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from which country ?
Spain
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Belgium
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United Kingdom
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France
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12.
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act at which place ?
Niagara Falls
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World Trade Centre towers, New York
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Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
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Grand Canyon
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13.
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after how many years of publication ?
156
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147
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128
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101
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14.
1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim across which body of water ?
Strait of Gibraltar
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
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Gulf of California
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Bering Strait
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15.
1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is known as the lead singer of which rock band ?
Iron Maiden
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Motorhead
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Def Leppard
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Saxon
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GeoPhilia
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Level 56
Aug 8, 2020
Why is this quiz (and 6th august also) aren't in the On This Day series?
toowise
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Level 78
Aug 8, 2020
Because I haven't updated it yet, I don't do it every day.
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