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On This Day (December 24th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 24th?
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I thought really hard about question 4, but thought it has a place in history even though I don't agree with any of it's policies.
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1. 1500 – A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on which Greek island ?
Kefalonia ✓
Crete ✓
Rhodes ✓
Lesbos ✓
2. 1777 – The island of Kiritimati is discovered by James Cook. What is it's anglicised name ?
Easter Island ✓
Thursday Island ✓
Christmas Island ✓
Bedwell Island ✓
3. 1818 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in which Austrian town ?
Bregenz ✓
Villach ✓
Amstetten ✓
Oberndorf ✓
4. 1865 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form which hate group ?
11th Hour Remnant Messenger ✓
Ku Klux Klan ✓
American Freedom Party ✓
National Association for the Advancement of White People ✓
5. 1871 – The opera "Aida" premieres in which city ?
Milan ✓
Vienna ✓
St. Petersburg ✓
Cairo ✓
6. 1906 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a speech, and a solo on which musical instrument ?
Cello ✓
Saxaphone ✓
Violin ✓
Clarinet ✓
7. 1920 – Gabriele D'Annunzio surrendered the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume to Italian armed forces. The city of Fiume is now known by what name ?
Rijeka ✓
Trieste ✓
Koper ✓
Gorizia ✓
8. 1929 – Assassination attempt on President Hipólito Yrigoyen of which country ?
Ghana ✓
Japan ✓
Nicaragua ✓
Argentina ✓
9. 1941 – World War II: Which North African city is conquered by the British Eighth Army ?
Tripoli ✓
Sfax ✓
Benghazi ✓
Timbuktu ✓
10. 1953 – On New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged and collapses beneath a passenger train. What caused the damage ?
Earthquake ✓
Mudflow ✓
Vehicle accident ✓
Sabotage ✓
11. 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb which hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam ?
Hotel Continental ✓
Caravelle Hotel ✓
Brinks Hotel ✓
Rex Hotel ✓
12. 1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed how many lunar orbits ?
Ten ✓
Three ✓
Twenty Two ✓
Fourteen ✓
13. 1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates which Australian city ?
Perth ✓
Darwin ✓
Cairns ✓
Townsville ✓
14. 1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near an RAF base in which county, an incident called "Britain's Roswell" ?
Devon ✓
Lincolnshire ✓
Suffolk ✓
Cumbria ✓
15. 2003 – The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives inside a railway station in which city ?
Madrid ✓
Barcelona ✓
Seville ✓
Valencia ✓
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