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On This Day (December 17th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 17th?
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1. 1538 – Which Pope excommunicates Henry VIII of England ?
Pope Paul III ✓
Pope Julius III ✓
Pope Clement VII ✓
Pope Marcellus II ✓
2. 1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo in which modern day Mexican city ?
Monterrey ✓
Mexico City ✓
Merida ✓
Guadalajara ✓
3. 1835 – The second Great Fire destroys 50 acres of which city's Financial District ?
London ✓
Frankfurt ✓
Tokyo ✓
New York ✓
4. 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by which composer ?
Ludwig van Beethoven ✓
Jean Sibelius ✓
Franz Schubert ✓
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ✓
5. 1892 – The first issue of which magazine is published ?
Harper's Bazaar ✓
Reader's Digest ✓
Vanity Fair ✓
Vogue ✓
6. 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned the first King of which country ?
Nepal ✓
Bhutan ✓
Thailand ✓
Philippines ✓
7. 1913 – A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual rapid transit system of which US city ?
Cleveland ✓
Cincinatti ✓
Pittsburgh ✓
Baltimore ✓
8. 1918 – Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in which Australian city ?
Hobart ✓
Cairns ✓
Alice Springs ✓
Darwin ✓
9. 1933 – The first NFL Championship Game is played. The game was at Wrigley Field between the New York Giants and which other team ?
Philadelphia Eagles ✓
Chicago Bears ✓
Dallas Cowboys ✓
San Francisco 49ers ✓
10. 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of which element ?
Americium ✓
Plutonium ✓
Uranium ✓
Neptunium ✓
11. 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in the North of which island ?
Java ✓
Sulawesi ✓
New Guinea ✓
Borneo ✓
12. 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile from which state ?
Florida ✓
Texas ✓
Nevada ✓
New Mexico ✓
13. 1967 – Harold Holt, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, Australia and is presumed drowned. Which official position did he hold ?
Minister of Finance ✓
Leader of the House ✓
Prime Minister ✓
Attorney General ✓
14. 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of which phenomenon ?
Apparitions ✓
Cloud formations ✓
UFOs ✓
Volcanic lightning ✓
15. 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at which London department store ?
Fortnum and Mason ✓
Harrods ✓
Selfridges ✓
Harvey Nichols ✓
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