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On This Day (July 19th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 19th?
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1. AD 64 – The Great Fire of _____ causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of which city ?
Rome ✓
Athens ✓
London ✓
Damascus ✓
2. 1545 – The Tudor warship "Mary Rose" sinks off Portsmouth; in which year is the wreck salvaged ?
1971 ✓
2001 ✓
1982 ✓
1994 ✓
3. 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after how many days on the throne ?
Twenty Five ✓
Nine ✓
Three ✓
Fourteen ✓
4. 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of which US river to England ?
Hudson ✓
Missouri ✓
Colorado ✓
Ohio ✓
5. 1900 – The first line of which city's subway system opens for operation ?
London ✓
Paris ✓
Tokyo ✓
Moscow ✓
6. 1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first of which sporting event ?
Tour de France ✓
Wimbledon ✓
New York Marathon ✓
U S Masters Golf ✓
7. 1940 – World War II: Army Order 112 forms which section of the British Army ?
Bomb Disposal ✓
Search and Rescue ✓
Intelligence Corps ✓
Home Guard ✓
8. 1952 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in which city ?
Los Angeles ✓
Tokyo ✓
Helsinki ✓
Rome ✓
9. 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude on X-15 Flight 90. What height in kilometres did he achieve ?
106 ✓
121 ✓
98 ✓
73 ✓
10. 1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into which country ?
Laos ✓
North Vietnam ✓
Cambodia ✓
Malaysia ✓
11. 1976 – Sagarmatha National Park is created in which country ?
Mongolia ✓
Uruguay ✓
Poland ✓
Nepal ✓
12. 1977 – The world's first GPS signal was transmitted from Satellite NTS-2 and received at a facility in which city ?
Cheltenham, UK ✓
Cedar Rapids, USA ✓
Miyazaki, Japan ✓
Vaasa, Finland ✓
13. 1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill. What was the name of the other ship ?
Aegean Captain ✓
Smit Zwarte Zee ✓
Elisabeth Maersk ✓
Gemini Star ✓
14. 1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort in which city ?
Marseille, france ✓
Barcelona, Spain ✓
Palermo, Italy ✓
London, UK ✓
15. 1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor is born. He is best known as the inventor of which kitchen appliance ?
Smoke Extractor ✓
Microwave Oven ✓
Dishwasher ✓
Garbage Disposal Unit ✓
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