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On This Day (January 7th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 7th ?
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1. 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of which European country ?
Portugal
Norway
Sweden
Lithuania
2. 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in what way ?
Swimming
Kayak
Gas Balloon
Coracle
3. 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established between which two cities ?
Halifax and Liverpool
Miami and Lisbon
New York and London.
Norfolk and Casablanca
4. 1928 – A disastrous flood of which English river kills 14 people and causes extensive damage ?
Tyne
Severn
Mersey
Thames
5. 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in which battle ?
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of Guadalcanal
6. 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of what ?
Stolen Spitfire airplane
Hijacked Douglas DC3
Short S23 "Flying Boat" with a fire on board
Unidentified Flying Object
7. 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, is born in which city ?
Long Beach, California
Galveston, Texas
Flagstaff, Arizona
Spokane, Washington
8. 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in which Southern US city ?
Jacksonville, Florida
Birmingham, Alabama
New Orleans, Louisiana
Savannah , Georgia
9. 1975 - Fans of which band riot before a Boston concert causing $30,000 damage ?
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
10. January 7th is "Victory Over Genocide Day" in which country ?
Rwanda
Cambodia
Haiti
Bosnia and Herzogovina
11. 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out which company ?
NBC
Amtrak
Chrysler Corporation
Pan-Am
12. 1983 - President Reagan ends US arms embargo against which Central American country ?
Guatemala
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Honduras
13. 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and host of BBC's Mastermind dies at 77 of which illness ?
Pancreatic Cancer
Pneumonia
Heart disease
Lung Cancer
14. 2015 – Twelve people are killed when terrorists open fire at the offices of which Parisian magazine?
Vogue
Paris Match
Charlie Hebdo
Cosmopolitan
15. 2018 -15 inches of snow falls in which unlikely place ?
Yucatan Peninsula
The Maldives
Singapore
Sahara Desert
16. 2020 - Several earthquakes kill four people on which Caribbean island?
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Hispaniola
Grenada
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