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On This Day (January 27th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 27th ?
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1.
1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from which Italian city ?
Venice
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Florence
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Turin
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Naples
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2.
1785 – Which university is founded, the first public university in the United States ?
University of Georgia
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University of Virginia
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New York University
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Harvard University
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3.
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers what ?
Antarctic Continent
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Severny Island
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Kerguelen Island
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A sea passage North of Russia
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1832 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English novelist, poet, and mathematician is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, UK. By what name is he better known ?
Charles Dickens
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C.S.Lewis
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Lewis Carroll
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1916 – World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced what to the United Kingdom ?
Food Rationing
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Night Curfews
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Conscription
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Vehicle Requisitioning
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6.
1918 – The first fighting signalled the beginning of which Civil War ?
Spanish Civil War
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Finnish Civil War
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Russian Civil War
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Irish Civil War
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1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of which city is lifted ?
Moscow
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Stalingrad
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Leningrad
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Murmansk
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1956 - Which single is released by Elvis Presley, that would become his first million-selling single ?
Jailhouse Rock
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Hound Dog
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Blue Suede Shoes
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1967 - A Treaty is initially signed by USA, USSR, and UK banning military use of what ?
Chemical Weapons
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Torture Chambers
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Cluster Bombs
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Nuclear weapons in Space
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10.
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming of a commercial for which soft drink ?
Coca Cola
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Pepsi
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Mountain Dew
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Dr. Pepper
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11.
1992 - Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on which part of her body ?
Knee
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Hip
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Elbow
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Shoulder
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12.
1996 – In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of which African nation ?
Chad
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Niger
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Burkina Faso
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Sierra Leone
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13.
1997 - "Wall Street" actor Charlie Sheen divorces model Donna Peele after how long ?
5 months
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5 years
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5 weeks
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10 years
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2018 – Ingvar Kamprad, dies in Älmhult, Sweden at age 91, he is known as the founder of which global retail company ?
Ikea
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Aldi
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7-11
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Target
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15.
2019 - A landslide kills 15 people at a wedding party in a hotel in which Peruvian city ?
Cusco
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Lima
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Abancay
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Tacna
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2023 - Protests across the US are staged following the release of a video of Tyre Nichols being attacked by police officers in which city?
Los Angeles
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Atlanta
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Dallas
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Memphis
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nomad14
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Level 68
Jan 27, 2020
Nice quiz!
toowise
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Level 78
Jan 27, 2020
Thanks, I've made myself a challenge to do one for every day this year, look out for one each day !
baptistegorce
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Level 54
Jun 1, 2021
Hi toowise! Would you like to be my 15th interviewee?
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