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On This Day (January 17th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 17th ?
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1.
1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of which sea ?
North Sea
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South China Sea
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Adriatic Sea
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Red Sea
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2.
1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish academic, politician and 1st President of Ireland, was born in which Irish county ?
County Roscommon
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County Donegal
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County Sligo
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County Cork
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3.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for which island group?
Aleutian Islands
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Virgin Islands
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Hawaiian Islands
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Cayman Islands
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4.
1920 - What is banned in the US on this day ?
Opium production
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Tobacco
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Alcohol
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X rated films
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5.
1929 – Which cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip ?
Popeye the Sailor Man
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Fred Flintstone
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Yosemite Sam
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Andy Capp
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6.
1938 - Joseph P. Kennedy (father of JFK) becomes the 44th United States Ambassador to which European country ?
Italy
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Sweden
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United Kingdom
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Spain
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7.
1945 – The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of which concentration camp as Soviet forces close in ?
Dachau
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Bergen-Belsen
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Auschwitz
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Buchenwald
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8.
1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in which US city ?
Detroit
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Baltimore
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Denver
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Boston
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9.
1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over which country, killing seven airmen, and dropping four 70-kiloton nuclear bombs ?
Germany
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Spain
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Portugal
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Morocco
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10.
1977 – Capital punishment in the United States resumes, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by what means in Utah ?
Electric Chair
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Firing Squad
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Lethal Injection
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Hanging
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11.
1996 – Which country applies for membership of the European Union ?
Slovakia
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Slovenia
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Poland
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Czech Republic
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12.
1997 - The NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for what reason ?
Financial Misconduct
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Kicking Cameraman
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Drug Use
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Alcohol Abuse
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13.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to what time in response to North Korea's first nuclear test ?
Quarter to Midnight
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Eleven Thirty
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Five minutes to Midnight
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Ten minutes to Midnight
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14.
2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author dies of renal failure in which city ?
Reykjavik, Iceland
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Halifax, NS, Canada
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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15.
2014 - 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in which Asian city ?
Bangkok, Thailand
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Yangon, Myanmar
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Ankara, Turkey
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Kabul, Afghanistan
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16.
2023 - An avalanche kills 28 people in which region?
Uttarakhand, India
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Tibet, China
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British Columbia, Canada
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Ticino, Switzerland
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