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On This Day (December 3rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 3rd?
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1. 1775 – USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes). What was the ship's former name ?
Red Queen ✓
Black Prince ✓
Blue King ✓
Yellow Princess ✓
2. 1818 – Which state becomes the 21st U.S. state ?
Illinois ✓
Indiana ✓
Iowa ✓
Idaho ✓
3. 1904 – Which moon of Jupiter is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory ?
Amalthea ✓
Pasiphae ✓
Himalia ✓
Elara ✓
4. 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Motor Show in which city ?
London ✓
New York ✓
Berlin ✓
Paris ✓
5. 1927 – The first Laurel and Hardy film, is released. What was it called ?
The Devil's Brother ✓
Putting Pants on Philip ✓
Way Out West ✓
Sons of the Desert ✓
6. 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in which city between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army ?
Thessaloniki ✓
Athens ✓
Heraklion ✓
Patras ✓
7. 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter is born. As the frontman for the band Black Sabbath, he acquired what nickname ?
Son of Beelzebub ✓
Satan's Ambassador ✓
Captain Lucifer ✓
Prince of Darkness ✓
8. 1960 – The musical Camelot debuts at which theatre on Broadway ?
Majestic ✓
Belasco ✓
Winter Garden ✓
Imperial ✓
9. 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human, in which South African city ?
Johannesburg ✓
Durban ✓
Pretoria ✓
Cape Town ✓
10. 1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of which planet ?
Neptune ✓
Jupiter ✓
Saturn ✓
Uranus ✓
11. 1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before a free concert that was called by what name ?
Caribbean Reggae ✓
Free West Indies ✓
Smile Jamaica ✓
Wailers Benefits ✓
12. 1979 – In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a concert by which band ?
The Who ✓
Rolling Stones ✓
Grateful Dead ✓
Paul McCartney and Wings ✓
13. 1992 – The Greek oil tanker "Aegean Sea", carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm and spills much of its cargo whilst on the approach to which port ?
Marseille, France ✓
Durban, South Africa ✓
Salvador, Brazil ✓
A Coruna, Spain ✓
14. 1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via which network to the phone of a colleague ?
AT&T ✓
Vodafone ✓
BTCellnet ✓
Orange ✓
15. 1994 – Which gaming console is released in Japan ?
Playstation ✓
Xbox ✓
Sega Mega Drive ✓
Super NES ✓
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