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On This Day (July 31st) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 31st?
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1. 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of which volcano ?
Mount Etna ✓
Mount Fuji ✓
Mount Vesuvius ✓
Krakatoa ✓
2. 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of which French river ?
Yonne ✓
Seine ✓
Loire ✓
Saone ✓
3. 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover which island ?
Bermuda ✓
Grenada ✓
Hispaniola ✓
Trinidad ✓
4. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet. What is he pelted with ?
Flowers ✓
Rotten Fruit and Vegetables ✓
Sour Milk ✓
Pebbles ✓
5. 1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for what invention ?
Type of horses reins ✓
Gun holster ✓
A way of processing Potash ✓
Navigation aid ✓
6. 1856 – Which New Zealand city is chartered on this day ?
Auckland ✓
Christchurch ✓
Wellington ✓
Dunedin ✓
7. 1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in which capital city ?
Belgrade ✓
Budapest ✓
Prague ✓
Bucharest ✓
8. 1932 – The Nazi Party wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections. What is the party's official name ?
German National People's Party ✓
National Socialist German Workers' Party ✓
Socialist Workers' Party of Germany ✓
German Racialist Freedom Party ✓
9. 1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in which country ?
Austria ✓
Switzerland ✓
Spain ✓
Belgium ✓
10. 1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned ration of what in the Royal Navy ?
Cigarettes ✓
Cheese ✓
Rum ✓
Porridge ✓
11. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to do what ?
Perform a space walk ✓
Ride in a lunar rover ✓
Play golf on the moon ✓
Bring back over 50kg of samples ✓
12. 1975 – Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland. What was the bands name ?
The Dubliners ✓
The Limerick Five ✓
Johnny and the Unicorns ✓
The Miami Showband ✓
13. 1992 – Which nation joins the United Nations ?
Georgia ✓
Lesotho ✓
Bhutan ✓
Belize ✓
14. 2007 – Operation Banner, the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. Where did it take place ?
Southern Cyprus ✓
Falkland Islands ✓
Northern Ireland ✓
Hong Kong ✓
15. 2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics. How many does he hold ?
35 ✓
28 ✓
19 ✓
24 ✓
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