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On This Day (June 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on June 8th ?
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1. 793 – Vikings raid an abbey on which island, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles ?
Skokholm
Skye
Lindisfarne
Fetlar
2. 1783 – Laki, a volcano in which country, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine ?
Japan
Iceland
New Zealand
Mexico
3. 1867 – The Coronation of Franz Joseph takes place making him the King of which nation ?
Hungary
Denmark
Austria
Greece
4. 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was what type of device ?
Type of Abacus
Mathematical Equation
Punched Card Calculator
Filing Cabinet
5. 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates which movie company ?
Pathé
Paramount Pictures
RKO Pictures
Universal Pictures
6. 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures which city, whose name is changed to one meaning "Northern Capital" ?
Peking (Beijing)
Bombay (Mumbai)
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Fort Lamy (N'Djamena)
7. 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Government of which country ?
Ireland
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
8. 1940 – World War II: The completion of the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign known as Operation what ?
Operation Viking
Operation Envelope
Operation Alphabet
Operation Oaktree
9. 1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as what ?
Homosexuals
Tax Evaders
Possible Spies
Members of the Communist Party
10. 1949 – Which of George Orwell's novels is published ?
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty Four
Homage to Catalonia
Down and Out in Paris and London
11. 1959 – USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via what means ?
Rockets
Balloons
Submarines
Remote Control Airplanes
12. 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes the country to be what type of zone ?
Fair Trade Zone
Free Trade Zone
Nuclear Free Zone
Clean Air Zone
13. 1992 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in which city ?
Cape Town, South Africa
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Berlin, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
14. 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in which country ?
Bosnia and Herzogovina
Iraq
Syria
Serbia
15. 2009 – Two American journalists are sentenced to 12 years penal labour after being found guilty of illegally entering which country ?
Kyrgyzstan
Iran
North Korea
Venezuela
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