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On This Day (December 22nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 22nd?
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1. 1622 – The town of Bucaramanga is founded by Andres Paes de Sotomayor. Bucaramanga is in which South American country ?
Colombia ✓
Bolivia ✓
Peru ✓
Argentina ✓
2. 1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs four of his pieces in concert at a theatre in which city ?
Budapest ✓
Munich ✓
Vienna ✓
Zurich ✓
3. 1851 – What is operated for the first time in India at Roorkee ?
Telegraph ✓
Freight Train ✓
Pipe Organ ✓
Printing Press ✓
4. 1888 – The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of which region's independence movement
Scotland ✓
Catalonia ✓
Quebec ✓
Faroe Islands ✓
5. 1890 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport in which Canadian province ?
Nova Scotia ✓
New Brunswick ✓
Ontario ✓
Alberta ✓
6. 1937 – Which tunnel opens to traffic in New York City ?
Holland Tunnel ✓
Queens–Midtown Tunnel ✓
Lincoln Tunnel ✓
Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel ✓
7. 1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop which weapon ?
Krummlauf Assault Rifle ✓
V-2 Rocket ✓
BK-5 Anti-tank Autocannon ✓
Panzer VIII Maus Tank ✓
8. 1963 – The cruise ship "Lakonia" catches fire 180 miles north of which island with the loss of 128 lives ?
Tenerife ✓
Barbuda ✓
Pitcairn ✓
Madeira ✓
9. 1965 – In the United Kingdom, a speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. What was the speed limit ?
60 mph ✓
50 mph ✓
70 mph ✓
90 mph ✓
10. 1974 – The house of which former British Prime Minister is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA ?
Edward Heath ✓
Harold Wilson ✓
Harold Macmillan ✓
Margaret Thatcher ✓
11. 1984 – "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in which city ?
Chicago ✓
New York ✓
Los Angeles ✓
Washington DC ✓
12. 1989 – Which Berlin border crossing re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany ?
Glienicke Bridge ✓
Bernauer Straße ✓
Potsdamer Platz ✓
Brandenburg Gate ✓
13. 1997 – Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes which disputed title by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt ?
King of Djibouti ✓
Sultan of Sudan ✓
President of Somalia ✓
Prince of Libya ✓
14. 2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives. Where were they hidden ?
In his shoes ✓
In his hand luggage ✓
In a camera ✓
In a pocket ✓
15. 2016 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine is between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against which disease ?
Bird Flu ✓
Ebola ✓
Yellow fever ✓
Zika virus ✓
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