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On This Day (December 1st) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 1st?
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1.
1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on a frozen lake watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine in which London park ?
St. James Park
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Hyde Park
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Regent's Park
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Greenwich Park
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1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of which nation ?
Denmark
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Indonesia
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Brazil
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Malawi
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1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in which city ?
Mobile, Alabama
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Memphis, Tennessee
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Savannah, Georgia
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1913 – The first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere begins operation in which city ?
Sao Paulo
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Johannesburg
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Melbourne
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Buenos Aires
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1913 – Which motor company introduces the first moving assembly line ?
General Motors
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Peugeot
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Ford
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Toyota
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1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of which kingdom ?
Norway
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Denmark
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Sweden
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Belgium
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1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against which country ?
United States
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China
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United Kingdom
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France
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1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested, an incident which leads to which Alabama city's bus boycott ?
Birmingham
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Montgomery
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Mobile
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Huntsville
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1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of what ?
Drug use
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Theft
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Underage drinking
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Attempted arson
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1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from which nation ?
Australia
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United Kingdom
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China
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Portugal
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1977 – Pinwheel pay TV is launched in the US. It is now known by what name ?
BBC America
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Discovery Channel
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Nickelodeon
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QVC
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1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes on which Mediterranean island, killing all 180 people on board ?
Sicily
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Corsica
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Ibiza
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Rhodes
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1988 – Which awareness day was proclaimed worldwide for the first time by the UN member states ?
World Refugee Day
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World Braille Day
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International Women's Day
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World AIDS Day
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1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed. How far below the seabed is the tunnel ?
40 metres
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50 metres
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20 metres
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100 metres
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2017 – A 100-megawatt Tesla Powerpack system, which is the world's largest lithium-ion battery, is launched in Jamestown, in which Australian state ?
Queensland
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Tasmania
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South Australia
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New South Wales
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JetPunker180
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Level 54
Dec 1, 2020
There should be question about covid
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 55
Dec 1, 2020
COVID started way before Dec. 1st
toowise
+1
Level 78
Dec 1, 2020
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