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On This Day (July 15th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 15th?
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1. 484 BC – The Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux takes place in which ancient city ?
Rome ✓
Athens ✓
Carthage ✓
Cairo ✓
2. 1207 – King John of England expels monks from which city for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton ?
York ✓
Lincoln ✓
Canterbury ✓
Salisbury ✓
3. 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of which king of England ?
King John ✓
King Richard II ✓
King Edward I ✓
King James II ✓
4. 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in which Egyptian village by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard ?
Damanhour ✓
Zagazig ✓
Damietta ✓
Rosetta ✓
5. 1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after approximately how many years ?
415 ✓
265 ✓
356 ✓
304 ✓
6. 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Which state becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union ?
Mississippi ✓
Georgia ✓
Florida ✓
Alabama ✓
7. 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people in which country ?
Japan ✓
Indonesia ✓
Philippines ✓
Iceland ✓
8. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by police in which European city ?
Trieste ✓
Stockholm ✓
Marseille ✓
Vienna ✓
9. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against what ?
Modern Slavery ✓
Nuclear Weapons ✓
Racism ✓
Global Warming ✓
10. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin which Operation to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone ?
Operation Waterloo ✓
Operation Brighton ✓
Operation Grapple ✓
Operation Hastings ✓
11. 1974 – Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios in which country ?
Cyprus ✓
Greece ✓
Turkey ✓
Bulgaria ✓
12. 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying a marching band from which country's army crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport ?
Belgium ✓
Republic of Congo ✓
Netherlands ✓
Suriname ✓
13. 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by what weapon ?
Bayonet ✓
Claymore mine ✓
AK-47 Rifle ✓
Car Bomb ✓
14. 2006 – Which social media platform is launched ?
Twitter ✓
Reddit ✓
Facebook ✓
Instagram ✓
15. 2014 – A train derails on which city's Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others ?
Seoul ✓
New York ✓
London ✓
Moscow ✓
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