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On This Day (December 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 13th?
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1. 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from which English port on his round-the-world voyage ?
Plymouth ✓
Bristol ✓
Portsmouth ✓
Grimsby ✓
2. 1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight which land ?
Australia ✓
New Zealand ✓
Antarctica ✓
Easter Island ✓
3. 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in which English county ?
North Yorkshire ✓
Gloucestershire ✓
Hampshire ✓
Shropshire ✓
4. 1758 – The English transport ship Duke William sinks in which body of water killing over 360 people ?
North Atlantic ✓
Bay of Biscay ✓
Irish Sea ✓
Caribbean Sea ✓
5. 1928 – Which of George Gershwin's compositions is performed for the first time ?
Rhapsody in Blue ✓
Porgy and Bess ✓
Stairway to Paradise ✓
An American in Paris ✓
6. 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of which German city ?
Hannover ✓
Munich ✓
Hamburg ✓
Cottbus ✓
7. 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to which city ?
Jerusalem ✓
Tel Aviv ✓
Haifa ✓
Nazareth ✓
8. 1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of which island nation ?
Malta ✓
Cape Verde ✓
Comoros ✓
Cyprus ✓
9. 1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions of what ?
Communist Party ✓
Solidarity Union ✓
Students ✓
Taxi Drivers ✓
10. 1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in which city ?
New York ✓
Vienna ✓
Geneva ✓
Nairobi ✓
11. 1989 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near which Northern Irish village ?
Derrynoose ✓
Rosslea ✓
Belcoo ✓
Clady ✓
12. 2001 – Sansad Bhavan is attacked by terrorists killing twelve people, including the terrorists. It is the Parliament building of which country?
India ✓
Bangladesh ✓
Pakistan ✓
Nepal ✓
13. 2002 – The EU announces that Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on which date ?
September 30th 2003 ✓
January 1st 2005 ✓
December 31st 2006 ✓
May 1st 2004 ✓
14. 2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near which Iraqi town ?
Mosul ✓
Amarah ✓
Tikrit ✓
Kut ✓
15. 2018 – A high-speed train crashes killing at least nine people and injuring 84 in which capital city ?
Madrid ✓
Ankara ✓
Cairo ✓
Canberra ✓
1ProximaCentauri
+1
Level 55
Dec 13, 2020
Boy does Turkey have a ton of train crashes! there was one about Istanbul a couple days back, and now one about Ankara.
toowise
+1
Level 78
Dec 13, 2020
Just the way things go, hopefully their rail industry learns from the tragedies.
1ProximaCentauri
+1
Level 55
Dec 13, 2020
I knew the Terrorism question had to be India, I just had that gut feeling it would be the same terrorist group as the 2008 Mumbai Attacks.
toowise
+1
Level 78
Dec 13, 2020
Unfortunately, most news is about negative issues, no newspaper reports about the good things that are happening around the world
1ProximaCentauri
+1
Level 55
Dec 13, 2020
the news is just trying to appeal to their viewers. negative things create more appeal.
toowise
+1
Level 78
Dec 14, 2020
Unfortunately that appears to be true
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