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On This Day (November 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 13th?
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1. 1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all people of which tribe in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre ?
Danes
Vikings
Saxons
Normans
2. 1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become which US city ?
San Francisco
New Orleans
Seattle
Anchorage
3. 1916 – World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for what ?
Higher Taxes
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Australian neutrality
Conscription
4. 1940 – Which Walt Disney animated musical film is first released ?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Fantasia
Pinocchio
Bambi
5. 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in which city ?
Maracaibo
Barquisimeto
Valencia
Caracas
6. 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in front of around 30,000 spectators in which city ?
Paris
London
Madrid
Rome
7. 1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first mayor to be born where ?
Haiti
Cuba
Mexico
Puerto Rico
8. 1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of which country, begins his reign on the death of his father ?
Liechtenstein
Sweden
Andorra
Monaco
9. 1995 – Which country becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire ?
Rwanda
Vanuatu
Mozambique
Papua New Guinea
10. 2012 – A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of which country ?
Australia
Canada
Russia
Antarctica
11. 2013 – What becomes legal in Hawaii on this day ?
Marijuana
Under 21s allowed to drink alcohol
Segways
Same sex marriage
12. 2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of which island nation ?
Madagascar
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
Iceland
13. 2017 – Which country fails to qualify (for the first time since 1958) for 2018 FIFA World Cup after being defeated by Sweden in the UEFA Second Round ?
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Italy
14. 2018 – CNN files a lawsuit against the Trump administration for what reason ?
False reports from the White House
Lack of questioning time
Revocation of Press passes
Not allowing reporters access to comfort facilities
15. 1955 – Caryn Elaine Johnson, American actress and comedian, is born. By what name is she better known ?
Goldie Hawn
Whoopi Goldberg
Melissa McCarthy
Ellen DeGeneres
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