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On This Day (August 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 8th?
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1. 1220 – Sweden is defeated by tribes from which country in the Battle of Lihula ?
Estonia ✓
Lithuania ✓
Norway ✓
Denmark ✓
2. 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in which city ?
London ✓
Stirling ✓
Edinburgh ✓
Falkirk ✓
3. 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on which Scandinavian island ?
Bornholm ✓
Gotland ✓
Hitra ✓
Hven ✓
4. 1786 – Which European mountain is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard ?
Eiger ✓
Mont Blanc ✓
Matterhorn ✓
Grossglockner ✓
5. 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage starting near which city ?
Anchorage, Alaska ✓
Prince Rupert, British Columbia ✓
Juneau, Alaska ✓
Seattle, Washington ✓
6. 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is reaffirmed as the leading body of which church ?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ✓
Methodist Church ✓
Russian Orthodox Church ✓
Pentecostal Church ✓
7. 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. What does it do ?
Prints using stencils ✓
Takes pictures ✓
Records sound ✓
Sends messages via wires ✓
8. 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first public flight at a racecourse in which city ?
Cork, Ireland ✓
Boston, USA ✓
Madrid, Spain ✓
Le Mans, France ✓
9. 1929 – A German airship going by which name begins a round-the-world flight ?
Graf Zeppelin ✓
Hindenberg ✓
Led Zeppelin ✓
Blimp ✓
10. 1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for what ?
Division of Germany ✓
Movement of German citizens ✓
Nuremberg Trials ✓
NATO ✓
11. 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes from a train heading to London from where ?
Preston ✓
Glasgow ✓
Edinburgh ✓
Penzance ✓
12. 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of which Beatles' album ?
Let It Be ✓
Help! ✓
Revolver ✓
Abbey Road ✓
13. 1988 – The first night baseball game in the history of which park ?
Wrigley Field ✓
Yankee Stadium ✓
Oakland Coliseum ✓
Fenway Park ✓
14. 1991 – A radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses in which European city ?
Prague ✓
Warsaw ✓
Porto ✓
Athens ✓
15. 2000 – Confederate submarine "H.L. Hunley" is raised to the surface after how many years on the ocean floor ?
142 ✓
154 ✓
136 ✓
121 ✓
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