Statistics for On This Day (February 16th) Multiple Choice

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1881 – Which company is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa ?Canadian Pacific Railway
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2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs for what reason ?Labour Dispute
100%
2006 – The last of which type of unit is decommissioned by the United States Army ?M.A.S.H.
100%
1986 – The Soviet cruise liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, in which country ?New Zealand
100%
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for which product ?Nylon
100%
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of which Pharaoh ?Tutankhamun
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2016 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations dies. What was his nationality?Egyptian
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1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin what feat ?First submerged circumnavigation of the Globe
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1968 – The first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service in which city ?Haleyville, Alabama
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1985 – Which political and militant extremist group is founded on this day ?Hezbollah
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1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the head of which Empire ?Mongol
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Today is a celebration of which food in the USA ?National Almond Day
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1941 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, is born according to Russia in Khabarovsk, where was he born a year later according to his official biography ?Paektu Mountain
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1930 – Which Eastern European Football Federation joins FIFA ?Romania
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1646 – The last major battle of the First English Civil War is fought in which town ?Torrington, Devon
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1804 – During the First Barbary War, Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn which frigate that was held by pirates ?USS Philadelphia
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