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On This Day (December 29th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 29th?
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Last updated: December 29, 2020
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1. 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside which cathedral by followers of King Henry II ?
Salisbury Cathedral ✓
Canterbury Cathedral ✓
St. Pauls Cathedral ✓
Lincoln Cathedral ✓
2. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture which city ?.
Savannah, Georgia ✓
Charleston, South Carolina ✓
Wilmington, North Carolina ✓
Richmond, Virginia ✓
3. 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands east of the Mississippi River belonging to which native American tribe to the United States ?
Sioux ✓
Apache ✓
Navajo ✓
Cherokee ✓
4. 1851 – The first American YMCA opens in which city ?
New York ✓
New Orleans ✓
Boston ✓
Nashville ✓
5. 1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead in which US state ?
Indiana ✓
Ohio ✓
Missouri ✓
Vermont ✓
6. 1916 – Which novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house ?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ✓
Dubliners ✓
Finnegans Wake ✓
The Sisters ✓
7. 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe fire-bombs which English city killing almost 200 civilians ?
Coventry ✓
Birmingham ✓
Southampton ✓
London ✓
8. 1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in which US national park ?
Yosemite ✓
Great Smoky Mountains ✓
Everglades ✓
Shenandoah ✓
9. 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. He was the president of which South American country ?
Peru ✓
Brazil ✓
Ecuador ✓
Paraguay ✓
10. 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a civil war that had lasted for how long ?
36 years ✓
18 years ✓
54 years ✓
9 years ✓
11. 1997 – Hong Kong begins a cull of which animal in an effort to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain ?
Pig ✓
Bat ✓
Rat ✓
Chicken ✓
12. 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. Where was the language spoken ?
Kola Peninsula, Russia ✓
Turks and Caicos Islands ✓
Headwaters of the Rio Negro, Brazil ✓
Zanzibar, Tanzania ✓
13. 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, that was negotiated in which year ?
1939 ✓
1946 ✓
1895 ✓
1952 ✓
14. 2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway in Moscow. The M3 highway runs to the border with which country ?
Finland ✓
Kazakhstan ✓
Ukraine ✓
Mongolia ✓
15. 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at a railway station in which Russian city kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others ?
Samara ✓
Volgograd ✓
Novosibirsk ✓
Magadan ✓
dr02
+1
Level 65
Aug 3, 2022
My birthday is on this day, and I only got 67%. Does that mean I live to 67?
toowise
+1
Level 78
Aug 3, 2022
At least 67 I should say, keep trying and you could live to be 100 !

P.s. Happy Birthday !

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