Statistics for On This Day (May 3rd) Multiple Choice

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1960 – Which museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands ?Anne Frank House
60%
2007 – The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history", from which resort ?Praia da Luz, Portugal
60%
1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor is born, by what name is he often referred ?Godfather of Soul
40%
1952 – Which sporting event is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network ?Kentucky Derby
40%
1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane where ?North Pole
40%
1481 – The largest of three earthquakes causes an estimated 30,000 casualties when it hits which island ?Rhodes
40%
1867 – The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to which part of Canada ?Vancouver Island
40%
1715 – A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within how many minutes accuracy ?4 minutes
20%
1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and to have what ?A Tunnel
20%
1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships "Cap Arcona", "Thielbek" and "Deutschland" by the Royal Air Force in which body of water ?Lübeck Bay, Germany
20%
1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer which country ?Nicaragua
20%
2001 – Which country loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947 ?United States
20%
2002 – An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17, in what type of building ?Bank
0%
1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in which city ?Jacksonville, Florida, USA
0%
The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be a day to commemorate what ?World Press Freedom Day
0%

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