Statistics for On This Day (August 7th) Multiple Choice

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from which country ?France
89%
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
78%
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act at which place ?World Trade Centre towers, New York
78%
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 ?San Francisco
67%
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 ?Solomon Islands
56%
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and which other city ?Buffalo, New York
44%
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. It is better known by what name ?Harvard Mark I
44%
936 – Coronation of which king of Germany ?King Otto I "The Great"
44%
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in the west of which state ?Pennsylvania
44%
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after how many years of publication ?128
33%
1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim across which body of water ?Bering Strait
33%
1786 – The first federal what is created by the United States ?Indian Reservation
33%
1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is known as the lead singer of which rock band ?Iron Maiden
33%
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
22%
1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and which other team ?Scotch College
11%

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