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On This Day (January 18th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 18th ?
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1. 1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds which South American city ?
Quito, Ecuador ✓
Santiago, Chile ✓
Lima, Peru ✓
Montevideo, Uruguay ✓
2. 1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st sighting of what ?
American Bison ✓
U.F.O. ✓
Totem Pole ✓
Captured Polar Bear ✓
3. 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, what does he name them ?
Sandwich Islands ✓
Spice Islands ✓
Fire Islands ✓
Storm Islands ✓
4. 1788 - Ships carrying what for the first time arrive in Botany Bay Australia ?
Convicts ✓
Building materials ✓
Rabbits and other livestock ✓
Scientists and Botanists ✓
5. 1882 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, playwright and creator of Winnie the Pooh is born in which area of London, England ?
Kilburn ✓
Elephant and Castle ✓
Notting Hill ✓
Greenwich ✓
6. 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of which ship, named after a US state, anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship ?
USS Maryland ✓
USS Pennsylvania ✓
USS Alabama ✓
USS Wisconsin ✓
7. 1919 - Which luxury car maker is founded on this day ?
Rolls Royce ✓
Cadillac ✓
Maserati ✓
Bentley ✓
8. 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate dies in London at age 70. He was later to have a crater on which planet named after him ?
Mercury ✓
Mars ✓
Venus ✓
Uranus ✓
9. 1951 - A lie detector is used for the first time in which country?
U.S.A. ✓
Japan ✓
Netherlands ✓
South Africa ✓
10. 1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with which team ?
Toronto Maple Leafs ✓
Boston Bruins ✓
Arizona Coyotes ✓
Edmonton Oilers ✓
11. 1960 – Which airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, their third fatal crash in as many years ?
Capital Airlines ✓
Pan-Am ✓
TWA ✓
Imperial Airlines ✓
12. 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on the US Billboard Chart with which single ?
Help ✓
I Want To Hold Your Hand ✓
Please Please Me ✓
She Loves You ✓
13. 1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on which TV network ?
ABC ✓
CBS ✓
NBC ✓
PBS ✓
14. 1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for what in an FBI sting operation ?
Money Laundering ✓
Illegal Alcohol Production ✓
Prostitution ✓
Drug Possession ✓
15. 2002 – Civil War is declared over in which African country ?
Burkina Faso ✓
Sierra Leone ✓
Equatorial Guinea ✓
Central African Republic ✓
16. 2023 - A helicopter crash kills 14 including which country's Interior Minister ?
Ukraine ✓
Belarus ✓
Russia ✓
Moldova ✓
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