Statistics for On This Day (December 26th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 11 times
  • The average score is 6 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1948 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from which country ?North Korea
67%
2012 – Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter dies on this day. Which of the following is NOT one of his creations ?Thomas the Tank Engine
67%
2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and which other city ?Guangzhou
56%
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 ?Marseille
56%
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 Yankees
56%
1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer is born. He is a co-founder of which rock band ?Metallica
44%
1860 – The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between two football clubs from which city ?Sheffield
44%
1871 – The first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the score has been lost. What was it called ?Thespis
44%
1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board which vessel are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship ?USS Red Rover
44%
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
33%
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 ?Iron
33%
1943 – World War II: German warship "Scharnhorst" is sunk off the northern coast of which country after a battle against major Royal Navy forces ?Norway
33%
1972 – Vietnam War: 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked which city in the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history ?Hanoi
22%
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 ?"I Saw Her Standing There"
22%
1975 – The world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, went into service. It was built in which country ?Soviet Union
11%

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