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On This Day (July 17th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 17th?
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1. 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in which part of the world ?
Northern Europe
Sub Saharan Africa
Arabian Peninsula
North Africa
2. 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures which city by assault ?
Constantinople
Damascus
Jerusalem
Adana
3. 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in which city's cathedral ?
Orleans
Reims
Nancy
Strasbourg
4. 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where which of Handel's compositions is premiered ?
Messiah
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Water Music
5. 1821: The Kingdom of Spain cedes which territory to the United States ?
Puerto Rico
California
Florida
New Mexico
6. 1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first what in Buffalo, New York ?
Air Conditioner
Ice Machine
Refrigerated Container
Electric Fan
7. 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear which surname ?
Buckingham
Windsor
Tudor
Sandringham
8. 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in which Russian city ?
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
Yekaterinburg
9. 1945 – The main three leaders of the Allied nations meet in which German city to decide the future of a defeated Germany ?
Potsdam
Berlin
Hannover
Leipzig
10. 1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of which nation ?
Malaysia
Philippines
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
11. 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of which country's participation ?
South Africa
New Zealand
Argentina
Soviet Union
12. 1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed to 21 from which age ?
18
25
16
20
13. 1989 – Diplomatic relations are restored between the Holy See (Vatican City) and which nation ?
Turkey
Iceland
South Africa
Poland
14. 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of which two countries after being shot down ?
Ukraine and Belarus
Ukraine and Russia
Russia and Georgia
India and Myanmar
15. 2018 – 12 new moons are discovered orbiting which planet ?
Jupiter
Neptune
Saturn
Uranus
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