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On This Day (December 7th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 7th?
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1. 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens in which district of London ?
Shepherd's Bush
Belgravia
Covent Garden
Camberwell
2. 1787 – Which state becomes the first to ratify the United States Constitution ?
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Vermont
3. 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in which Missouri city ?
Brunswick
Graham
Rockbridge
Gallatin
4. 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in how many consecutive Test innings ?
Four
Five
Three
Six
5. 1941 – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces on which island ?
Wake
Oahu
Hawaii
Midway
6. 1942 – World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in which French harbour ?
Caen
Le Havre
Bordeaux
St. Malo
7. 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to where ?
Beijing
Shanghai
Taipei
Lhasa
8. 1963 – Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in which US city ?
Boston
Washington
Seattle
Philadelphia
9. 1966 – Louise Post, American singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. She is known as a founder member of a band named after which Roald Dahl character ?
Miss Trunchbull
Veruca Salt
Augustus Gloop
The BFG
10. 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes a photograph of Earth that becomes known as what ?
The Blue Dot
The Blue Marble
The Blue Ball
The Blue Billiard
11. 1979 – Which science fiction television series makes the move to the "big screen" with the release of a full length movie ?
Star Trek
Dr. Who
Lost in Space
Space 1999
12. 1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at which European airport ?
London Gatwick
Paris Orly
Amsterdam Schipol
Madrid Barajas
13. 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at which planet ?
Neptune
Jupiter
Uranus
Saturn
14. 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at which city's airport ?
Dallas
San Francisco
Miami
Boston
15. 2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill to legally recognize same-sex marriages is passed in which nation's parliament ?
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
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Level 55
Dec 7, 2020
Ever since, Don Bradman, Jacques Kallis, Gautam Gambhir, and Mohammed Yousuf have broken that record. I love cricket. I am an Indian-American, and Indians take cricket really seriously.
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Level 78
Dec 8, 2020
I have a friend that is in Sri Lanka and its almost an obsession there too !
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Level 55
Dec 8, 2020
ye. Some indians think of players like demigods. If they fail, they start rioting. A guy even once committed suicide because Sachin tendulkar didn't score a hundred.
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Level 78
Dec 8, 2020
Wow, thats extreme.