Statistics for On This Day (May 11th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 10 times
  • The average score is 6 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1997 – Deep Blue becomes the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. Who did it beat ?Garry Kasparov
78%
2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter dies on this day. What was his best known work ?Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
67%
1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against which country ?Mexico
67%
1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a stadium fire at which UK football club ?Bradford City
56%
912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of which empire ?Byzantine Empire
56%
2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by what ?Tear Gas Thrown by Police
56%
1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across which mountain range ?Blue Mountains, Australia
33%
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes which National Park ?Glacier, Montana
33%
1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of which building ?House of Commons
33%
1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician is born, he is best known for which band ?The Animals
33%
1833 – The "Lady of the Lake" strikes an iceberg and sinks with the loss of 265 people off the coast of which landmass ?Newfoundland
22%
1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into which river ?Columbia River
11%
1960 – Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by which intelligence service ?Mossad
11%
Today is celebrated as what in New Zealand ?National Chocolate Fish Day
11%
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in which city for war crimes committed during World War II ?Lyon
0%

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