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On This Day (December 11th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 11th?
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1. 1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near which Welsh town ?
Haverfordwest ✓
Builth Wells ✓
Llandovery ✓
Aberystwyth ✓
2. 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of which European city ?
Geneva ✓
Vienna ✓
Marseille ✓
Luxembourg ✓
3. 1688 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into which river ?
Humber ✓
Severn ✓
Medway ✓
Thames ✓
4. 1816 – Which state becomes the 19th U.S. state ?
Illinois ✓
Iowa ✓
Indiana ✓
Idaho ✓
5. 1907 – The Parliament Buildings of which nation are almost completely destroyed by fire ?
New Zealand ✓
Peru ✓
Kenya ✓
Denmark ✓
6. 1917 – World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters which city on foot and declares martial law ?
Tripoli ✓
Aden ✓
Kabul ✓
Jerusalem ✓
7. 1946 – Which United Nations organisation is established ?
UNHCR ✓
UNICEF ✓
UNESCO ✓
WHO ✓
8. 1962 – Arthur Lucas is the last person to be executed in Canada. What crime was he convicted of ?
Kidnapping ✓
Treason ✓
Murder ✓
Fraud ✓
9. 1968 – A Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull, is filmed in Wembley, London. Who organised it ?
The Rolling Stones ✓
John Lennon ✓
Roger Daltrey ✓
Jim Morrison ✓
10. 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the final Apollo mission to land on the Moon. It was which mission to land there ?
Seventh ✓
Sixth ✓
Fifth ✓
Eighth ✓
11. 1978 – A heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. On which airlines cargo depot was it committed ?
Pan-Am ✓
KLM ✓
Swissair ✓
Lufthansa ✓
12. 1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to which city ? (The captain is able to safely land the plane)
Sydney ✓
Tokyo ✓
Kuala Lumpur ✓
Bangkok ✓
13. 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol treaty opens for signature. It concerns which global issue ?
Refugees ✓
Whaling ✓
Climate Change ✓
Poverty ✓
14. 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. It is alongside which motorway ?
M1 ✓
M11 ✓
M25 ✓
M4 ✓
15. 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a Ponzi scheme valued at how much ?
$100 billion ✓
$50 billion ✓
$100 million ✓
$500 million ✓
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Level 51
Dec 11, 2020
Only 33% got Indiana? I'm happy though because I got 40%!
toowise
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Level 78
Dec 11, 2020
Not everyone is based in the USA
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