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On This Day (November 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 12th?
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1. 1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, playing in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. How much was he paid ?
$100 ✓
$500 ✓
$1000 ✓
$250 ✓
2. 1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between which country and the British Raj ?
China ✓
Iran ✓
Afghanistan ✓
Vietnam ✓
3. 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on which area of Antarctica ?
Ronne Ice Shelf ✓
Wilkes Land ✓
Queen Maud Land ✓
Ross Ice Shelf ✓
4. 1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ?
Hot Chocolate ✓
War ✓
Earth, Wind and Fire ✓
Four Seasons ✓
5. 1944 – The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, off the coast of which country ?
Norway ✓
Netherlands ✓
France ✓
Finland ✓
6. 1956 – Morocco, Sudan and which other African country join the United Nations ?
Algeria ✓
Madagascar ✓
Tunisia ✓
Ethiopia ✓
7. 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in which US national park ?
Yellowstone ✓
Yosemite ✓
Glacier ✓
Grand Teton ✓
8. 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy what with explosives ?
Beached Sperm Whale ✓
Rockfall ✓
Old Bridge ✓
Derelict Truckstop ✓
9. 1977 – Which country conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in a group of 29 tests?
United States ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Soviet Union ✓
France ✓
10. 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to which planet ?
Uranus ✓
Saturn ✓
Jupiter ✓
Neptune ✓
11. 1981 – Mission STS-2 marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. The mission utilized which Space Shuttle ?
Columbia ✓
Atlantis ✓
Challenger ✓
Discovery ✓
12. 1990 – Who publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web ?
Steve Jobs ✓
Bill Gates ✓
Tim Berners-Lee ✓
Mark Zuckerberg ✓
13. 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near which city ?
Kuwait City ✓
Delhi ✓
Baku ✓
Dhaka ✓
14. 2003 – Which city's Transrapid train system sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour for unmodified commercial railway systems ?
Tokyo ✓
Singapore ✓
Seoul ✓
Shanghai ✓
15. Which specific food is celebrated today in the USA ?
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day ✓
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day ✓
National Cream-Filled Donut Day ✓
National Clams on the Half Shell Day ✓
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