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On This Day (July 25th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 25th?
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1.
1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in which French city ?
Bordeaux
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Reims
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Perpignan
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Toulouse
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2.
1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain in which English cathedral ?
Salisbury
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York
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Winchester
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Lincoln
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3.
1609 – The English ship "Sea Venture", en route to Virginia, is driven ashore during a storm to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. But where ?
Nova Scotia
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Bermuda
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Virgin Islands
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Maine
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1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of which city promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed ?
Brussels
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Madrid
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London
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Paris
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5.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of which island ?
Madeira
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Tenerife
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Majorca
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Sardinia
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6.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across which body of water in a heavier-than-air machine ?
English Channel
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Strait of Gibraltar
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Irish Sea
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Kattegat
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1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax as a "temporary" measure in which country ?
United Kingdom
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New Zealand
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India
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Canada
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8.
1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the army of which country to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal ?
Andorra
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Switzerland
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Sweden
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Algeria
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9.
1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on which city is an attack on NATO ?
Washington
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London
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Berlin
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Stockholm
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10.
1965 – Which artist goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music ?
Bob Dylan
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Joan Baez
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Gordon Lightfoot
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Donovan
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11.
1978 – Police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders in which overseas territory ?
French Guiana
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Puerto Rico
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Cayman Islands
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Aruba
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12.
1996 – Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya in a military coup in which African country ?
Cameroon
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Togo
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Burundi
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Sierra Leone
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13.
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at which airport ?
Amsterdam Schipol
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Paris Charles de Gaulle
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London Heathrow
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Paris Orly
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14.
2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium and which other country during the July 2019 European heat wave ?
Germany
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France
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Spain
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Italy
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15.
1978 – Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham, UK. What is her claim to fame ?
First winner of "Britains Got Talent"
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First National Lottery Jackpot winner
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First female to be head of the National Union of Miners
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First "Test Tube" Baby
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