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On This Day (May 25th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 25th ?
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1. 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of which Comet ?
Comet Hale-Bopp ✓
Halley's Comet ✓
Encke’s Comet ✓
Comet Hyakutake ✓
2. 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes which Spanish city back from the Moors ?
Toledo ✓
Salamanca ✓
Cadiz ✓
A Coruna ✓
3. 1660 – Which monarch lands at Dover to begin the Restoration of the British monarchy ?
Anne ✓
James II ✓
Charles II ✓
William III ✓
4. 1787 – After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of how many states is secured ?
Twelve ✓
Seven ✓
Three ✓
Fourteen ✓
5. 1878 – Which of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas opens at the Opera Comique in London ?
Mikado ✓
Pirates of Penzance ✓
Iolanthe ✓
H.M.S. Pinafore ✓
6. 1935 – Jesse Owens breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in which city ?
Ann Arbor, Michigan ✓
Dayton, Ohio ✓
Rockford, Illinois ✓
Raleigh, North Carolina ✓
7. 1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures which French port ?
Calais ✓
Dunkerque ✓
Boulogne-sur-Mer ✓
Le Havre ✓
8. 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of which university ?
Houston ✓
Stanford ✓
Harvard ✓
CalTech ✓
9. 1961 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress a goal to do what ?
End Racism ✓
Implement a National Health Service ✓
End Communism ✓
Put a Man on the Moon ✓
10. 1977 – Which famous movie is released in theaters?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind ✓
Star Wars ✓
Saturday Night Fever ✓
Rocky ✓
11. 1977 – The Chinese government removes a decade old ban on the works of which person ?
William Skakespeare ✓
Oscar Wilde ✓
Charles Dickens ✓
Ernest Hemingway ✓
12. 1985 – Which country is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people ?
Sri Lanka ✓
Malaysia ✓
Bangladesh ✓
Papua New Guinea ✓
13. 1986 – Which major charity event takes place ?
Live Aid ✓
Hands Across America ✓
Race for Life ✓
Farm Aid ✓
14. 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest despite having which disability ?
Only One Leg ✓
Only One Arm ✓
Deafness ✓
Blindness ✓
15. 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of "The Oprah Winfrey Show". The show aired in how many countries worldwide ?
149 ✓
98 ✓
162 ✓
130 ✓
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