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On This Day (June 27th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on June 27th?
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1. 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded. Which city was it centred around ?
Dubrovnik, Croatia ✓
Ravenna, Italy ✓
Adana, Turkey ✓
Varna, Bulgaria ✓
2. 1497 – Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England. They were rebels from which region of Britain ?
North Wales ✓
East Anglia ✓
Cornwall ✓
Northumberland ✓
3. 1760 – Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee in which present-day state ?
West Virginia ✓
North Carolina ✓
Georgia ✓
Kentucky ✓
4. 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at a jail in which state ?
Indiana ✓
Iowa ✓
Idaho ✓
Illinois ✓
5. 1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard which Russian battleship ?
Imperatritsa Mariya ✓
Yermak ✓
Potemkin ✓
Opyt ✓
6. 1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during an Operation called by what name ?
Operation Barbarossa ✓
Operation Butterfly ✓
Operation Sleeping Bear ✓
Operation Barbarella ✓
7. 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in which conflict ?
Vietnam War ✓
Arab–Israeli War ✓
Greek Civil War‎ ✓
Korean War ✓
8. 1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near which major city ?
Kiev ✓
Moscow ✓
Yekaterinburg ✓
Vladivostok ✓
9. 1973 – The President, Juan María Bordaberry, dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship in which country ?
Honduras ✓
Angola ✓
Uruguay ✓
Ecuador ✓
10. 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to which airport ?
Entebbe, Uganda ✓
Schipol, Netherlands ✓
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya ✓
Malpensa, Italy ✓
11. 1977 – France grants independence to which nation ?
Vanuatu ✓
Djibouti ✓
Madagascar ✓
Guinea ✓
12. 1988 – A rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people, at which station ?
Gare de l'Est ✓
Gare d'Austerlitz ✓
Gare du Nord ✓
Gare de Lyon ✓
13. 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in which Japanese city ?
Matsumoto ✓
Tokyo ✓
Niigata ✓
Sendai ✓
14. 2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe what ?
Mars ✓
The Sun ✓
Neptune ✓
Alpha Centauri ✓
15. 2002 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and producer dies on this day. He was best known as a member of which band ?
Rolling Stones ✓
Black Sabbath ✓
The Who ✓
Thin Lizzy ✓
ducklingpanda1245
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Level 52
Aug 2, 2020
Good quiz! One of my favorites so far!
toowise
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Level 78
Aug 2, 2020
Thank you !
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