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On This Day (November 14th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 14th?
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1. 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of which river ?
Nile ✓
Amazon ✓
Mississippi ✓
Mekong ✓
2. 1851 – Which novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA ?
Billy Budd, Sailor ✓
Moby Dick ✓
Omoo ✓
Benito Cereno ✓
3. 1886 – Friedrich Soennecken first developed which office tool ?
Stapler ✓
Desk Tidy ✓
Hole Puncher ✓
Photocopier ✓
4. 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in how many days ?
79 ✓
68 ✓
75 ✓
72 ✓
5. 1940 – World War II: In England, which city is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers almost completely destroying it's cathedral ?
York ✓
Salisbury ✓
Canterbury ✓
Coventry ✓
6. 1948 – Which member of the British Royal Family is born on this day ?
Prince Charles ✓
Princess Anne ✓
Prince Andrew ✓
Prince Edward ✓
7. 1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart is published by which magazine ?
Kerrang ✓
The Spectator ✓
New Musical Express ✓
Sounds ✓
8. 1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in which US state ?
Alabama ✓
Louisiana ✓
Georgia ✓
Kentucky ✓
9. 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for the world's first what ?
Laser ✓
Silicon chip ✓
Tazer ✓
MRI scanner ✓
10. 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around which planet ?
Mercury ✓
Earth ✓
Venus ✓
Mars ✓
11. 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, at which venue ?
St. Pauls Cathedral ✓
Westminster Abbey ✓
Windsor Castle ✓
Buckingham Palace ✓
12. 1979 – US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all assets in the United States of which country in response to a hostage crisis ?
China ✓
Venezuela ✓
Iran ✓
Guatemala ✓
13. 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed union movement, is released after eleven months of internment. What was the movement called ?
Solidarity ✓
Polish Workers Unite ✓
United Workers Party ✓
Togetherness ✓
14. 1991 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to which city after thirteen years of exile ?
Thimphu ✓
Phnom Penh ✓
Bandar Seri Begawan ✓
Bangkok ✓
15. 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in which city ?
Washington D.C. ✓
London ✓
Beijing ✓
Tokyo ✓
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