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On This Day (January 20th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 20th ?
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1. 1502 - The present-day location of which South American city is first explored ?
Buenos Aires
Quito
Rio de Janiero
Santiago
2. 1841 – Which island is occupied by the British for the first time?
Hong Kong Island
Jamaica
Fiji
Cyprus
3. 1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes the first woman to do what ?
Testify before US Congress
Climb the Matterhorn
Sail solo across the Atlantic
Work at the London Stock Exchange
4. 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease which naval base ?
Norfolk
Guantanamo Bay
Pearl Harbor
Rota
5. 1921 – The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in which body of water killing all 56 on board ?
Scapa Flow
English Channel
Strait of Gibraltar
Bering Sea
6. 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, is born in which state of the US ?
Wyoming
South Carolina
Kentucky
New Jersey
7. 1949 - J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a fountain pen containing what ?
Poison
Ink
Tear Gas
Radio Transmitter
8. 1953 – First live US coast-to-coast inauguration address by which President ?
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. 1973 - A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, in which Irish city, killing 1 person and injuring 17 ?
Belfast
Cork
Dublin
Donegal
10. 1981 - The US diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in which city are released and begin their journey home after 444 days ?
Tehran, Iran
Kabul, Afghanistan
Baghdad, Iraq
Damascus, Syria
11. 1982 - Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne does what on stage in Des Moines, Iowa ?
Urinates on the crowd
Bites the head off a bat
Smashes his guitar through an amp
Collapses from exhaustion
12. 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor, dies on this day, he was best known for his role as which fictional character ?
Tarzan
Aquaman
Superman
Sherlock Holmes
13. 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near which European city, killing 87 of the 96 people on board ?
Strasbourg, France
Zurich, Switzerland
Turin, Italy
Ljubljana, Slovenia
14. Today is "National Heroes Day" in which African island nation ?
Sao Tome and Principe
Cape Verde
Comoros
Madagascar
15. 2014 - Credit cards of at least 20 million people in which Asian country are hacked ?
Japan
South Korea
China
India
16. 2022 - Michael Lee Aday, American singer and actor, dies on this day. Under what name is he better known?
Fish
Seal
Bread
Meat Loaf
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