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On This Day (December 19th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 19th?
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1. 1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. He is the first king of which royal house ?
House of Plantagenet
House of Windsor
House of Tudor
House of Normandy
2. 1606 – Three ships depart England carrying settlers who founded the first of the thirteen colonies that became the US. The ships were called "Susan Constant", "Discovery" and what ?
Valiant
Lundy
Godspeed
Cornish Maid
3. 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates and two Spanish frigates engage in battle off the coast of which Spanish region ?
Cantabria
Catalonia
Galicia
Murcia
4. 1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1000 people, is pardoned after ​3 1⁄2 years in which US prison ?
Sing Sing
Folsom
Alcatraz
San Quentin
5. 1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in which UK city ?
Edinburgh
Belfast
London
Cardiff
6. 1924 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders. Which answer was NOT one of his nicknames ?
The Butcher of Hanover
The Mad Ripper
The Vampire of Hanover
The Wolf Man
7. 1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy. What was the Kakori conspiracy ?
Plot to assassinate Gandhi
Banking fraud
Infiltration of British government
Train robbery
8. 1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting under what name ?
BBC Empire Service
BBC Overseas Service
BBC European Service
BBC Foreign Service
9. 1941 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in which harbour ?
Valletta, Malta
Limassol, Cyprus
Alexandria, Egypt
Tripoli, Libya
10. 1967 – Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead. Even though his body was never found, how was his fate assumed ?
Disappeared while swimming
Lost walking in the Outback
Eaten by crocodiles in a lake
Abducted by Aliens
11. 1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. What was the mission number ?
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo 18
Apollo 19
12. 1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster "Union Star" in heavy seas. In which UK county is the Penlee lifeboat station ?
Kent
Gwynedd
Aberdeenshire
Cornwall
13. 1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of which country's Football Association ?
Mexico
Brazil
Italy
United Kingdom
14. 2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at a weather station in which country ?
Mongolia
Iceland
Tonga
Chile
15. 2012 – Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of which nation ?
Nepal
Vietnam
South Korea
Thailand
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