Statistics for On This Day (May 13th) Multiple Choice

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  • The average score is 5 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England for Australia, with eleven ships full of what ?Convicts
100%
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in which city after being convicted of treason ?The Hague
80%
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in what place ?Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City
60%
1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer, is born. What was his nickname ?Brown Bomber
40%
1950 – Stevland Hardaway Judkins, American singer-songwriter, and pianist, is also born on this day. By what name is he better known ?Stevie Wonder
40%
1943 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in which country ?Tunisia
40%
1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first person to circumnavigate the world by what means of transport ?Amphibious Vehicle
20%
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from who ?Colombia
20%
1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to achieve which feat ?Conquer Everest without Oxygen or Sherpas
20%
1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the first Muslim President of which country ?India
20%
2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on which road ?Mexican Federal Highway 40
20%
1950 – The very first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at which circuit ?Silverstone, UK
20%
1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become which U.S. state ?Tennessee
20%
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his what ?Electric Railway
0%
1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to which other city ?Kotri
0%

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