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On This Day (December 15th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 15th?
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Last updated: December 15, 2020
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1. 1167 – Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to which city to prevent a rebellion ?
Messina ✓
Palermo ✓
Agrigento ✓
Catania ✓
2. 1651 – Castle Cornet, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders. It is on which island ?
Jersey ✓
Isle of Man ✓
Guernsey ✓
Tresco ✓
3. 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine kills 687 on which Japanese island ?
Honshu ✓
Kyushu ✓
Hokkaido ✓
Shikoku ✓
4. 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale of what ?
Tobacco ✓
Slaves ✓
Firearms ✓
Alcohol ✓
5. 1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in which US city ?
Chicago ✓
Atlanta ✓
New Orleans ✓
Nashville ✓
6. 1944 – World War II: a single-engine Norseman aeroplane carrying US Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over which body of water ?
English Channel ✓
Gulf of Mexico ✓
Aegean Sea ✓
Persian Gulf ✓
7. 1949 – Don Johnson, American actor is born. As well as Miami Vice he starred in which US TV crime drama series ?
Kojak ✓
Nash Bridges ✓
NCIS ✓
Bones ✓
8. 1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate which person ?
Frank Sinatra ✓
Martin Luther King ✓
John F. Kennedy ✓
Audrey Hepburn ✓
9. 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near which Italian city, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10 ?
Milan ✓
Naples ✓
Turin ✓
Bologna ✓
10. 1981 – A suicide car bombing targeting the embassy of which nation in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people ?
Iraq ✓
United States ✓
Soviet Union ✓
South Africa ✓
11. 2000 – The third reactor at which nuclear power plant is shut down ?
Fukushima, Japan ✓
Chernobyl, Ukraine ✓
Sellafield, UK ✓
Indian Point, USA ✓
12. 2001 – Which famous attraction reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it ?
Taj Mahal ✓
Machu Picchu ✓
The Leaning Tower of Pisa ✓
Stonehenge ✓
13. 2010 – A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of which island killing 48 people ?
Malta ✓
Christmas Island ✓
Jersey ✓
Key West ✓
14. 2019 – Chinese Television pulls an English Premier League match from its schedule after a player criticized China's re-education camps. Which teams were playing ?
Manchester United and Liverpool ✓
Chelsea and Sunderland ✓
Arsenal and Manchester City ✓
Leicester City and Everton ✓
15. Today is celebrated as Homecoming Day on which of the Channel Islands ?
Alderney ✓
Sark ✓
Guernsey ✓
Jersey ✓
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 55
Dec 15, 2020
2000- Al Gore concedes the election. (I understand that everything can't be included.)
toowise
+1
Level 78
Dec 15, 2020
If I had to include everything there would be 100's of questions as you obviously know. I also try to spread the questions around the world rather than being too USAcentric of UKcentric...Doesnt always work if I'm honest but I try !
1ProximaCentauri
+1
Level 55
Dec 15, 2020
In my opinion, jetpunk as a whole is too Cyprus and Palestine Centric!
toowise
+1
Level 78
Dec 16, 2020
And don't even mention San Marino, cant do a quiz without that being an answer.🤣🤣
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