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On This Day (December 26th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 26th?
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1. 887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with at Pavia with a crown made from which material ?
Gold ✓
Iron ✓
Silver ✓
Copper ✓
2. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Which battle takes place in which the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces ?
Battle of Trenton ✓
Battle of Long Island ✓
Battle of Brandywine ✓
Battle of Germantown ✓
3. 1860 – The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between two football clubs from which city ?
Liverpool ✓
Birmingham ✓
Sheffield ✓
Bristol ✓
4. 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board which vessel are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship ?
USS Kearsarge ✓
USS Housatonic ✓
USS Eastport ✓
USS Red Rover ✓
5. 1871 – The first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the score has been lost. What was it called ?
Thespis ✓
The Mikado ✓
The Sorcerer ✓
The Pirates of Penzance ✓
6. 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to which team by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition ?
New York Giants ✓
Philadelphia Athletics ✓
New York Yankees ✓
Chicago White Sox ✓
7. 1943 – World War II: German warship "Scharnhorst" is sunk off the northern coast of which country after a battle against major Royal Navy forces ?
United Kingdom ✓
Norway ✓
Spain ✓
Iceland ✓
8. 1948 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from which country ?
Afghanistan ✓
Nepal ✓
Mongolia ✓
North Korea ✓
9. 1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer is born. He is a co-founder of which rock band ?
Metallica ✓
Anthrax ✓
Def Leppard ✓
Rammstein ✓
10. 1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and which other song are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level ?
"Please Please Me" ✓
"I Saw Her Standing There" ✓
"Help" ✓
"Eleanor Rigby" ✓
11. 1972 – Vietnam War: 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked which city in the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history ?
Saigon ✓
Hue ✓
Hanoi ✓
Dien Bien Phu ✓
12. 1975 – The world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, went into service. It was built in which country ?
Soviet Union ✓
United Kingdom ✓
France ✓
United States ✓
13. 1994 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers when it lands in which city ?
Lyon ✓
Toulouse ✓
Paris ✓
Marseille ✓
14. 2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and which other city ?
Urumqi ✓
Guangzhou ✓
Lhasa ✓
Kunming ✓
15. 2012 – Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter dies on this day. Which of the following is NOT one of his creations ?
Thunderbirds ✓
Thomas the Tank Engine ✓
Stingray ✓
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ✓
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