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On This Day (January 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 8th ?
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1. 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture a fortress, thereby establishing the independance of which European microstate ?
Liechtenstein ✓
Monaco ✓
San Marino ✓
Andorra ✓
2. 1790 – In which city does George Washington deliver the first State of the Union address ?
Richmond ✓
Boston ✓
New York ✓
Washington ✓
3. 1816 - Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on which subject?
Elasticity ✓
Electric Energy ✓
Volcanic Activity ✓
Microscopic Algae ✓
4. 1835 – Which country's national debt is zero for the only time ?
France ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Mexico ✓
United States ✓
5. 1940 - Britain's World War II food rationing begins with which three items?
Flour, Sugar, & Pork ✓
Beef, Fish, & Rice ✓
Butter, Bread, & Lamb ✓
Bacon, Butter, & Sugar ✓
6. 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement dies in which African country ?
Kenya ✓
South Africa ✓
Egypt ✓
Tunisia ✓
7. 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on _____" , what ?
Drugs ✓
Poverty ✓
Terrorism ✓
Racism ✓
8. 1967 - R. Kelly, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball player is born in which city ?
Boston, Massachusetts ✓
Chicago, Illinois ✓
Detroit, Michigan ✓
Atlanta, Georgia ✓
9. 1973 - Actor Michael Caine marries model Shakira Baksh in which US city ?
Los Angeles ✓
San Francisco ✓
New Orleans ✓
Las Vegas ✓
10. 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Soviet Union, killing seven people. The bombings are attributed to a separatist group from which present day country ?
Kazakhstan ✓
Lithuania ✓
Ukraine ✓
Armenia ✓
11. 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into which British motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board ?
M 1 ✓
M 25 ✓
M 62 ✓
M 90 ✓
12. 1992 - George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits in the lap of which country's Prime Minister?
Japan ✓
China ✓
Taiwan ✓
Papua New Guinea ✓
13. 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for the Mir space station. He would stay on the space station for a record of how many days in space ?
389 ✓
437 ✓
591 ✓
273 ✓
14. 2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by which member of the British Royal family ?
Prince Charles ✓
Prince Philip ✓
Queen Elizabeth II ✓
Princess Anne ✓
15. 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of which island ?
Midway ✓
Ascension ✓
Guam ✓
Bali ✓
16. 2020 - Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down with the loss of all souls on board shortly after take-off at which airport?
Tehran - Imam Khomeini Airport ✓
Mogadishu - Aden Adde Airport ✓
Warsaw - Frederic Chopin Airport ✓
Moscow - Sheremetyevo Airport ✓
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