Statistics for On This Day (November 14th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 11 times
  • The average score is 7 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
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 ?Iran
86%
1851 – Which novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA ?Moby Dick
86%
1940 – World War II: In England, which city is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers almost completely destroying it's cathedral ?Coventry
71%
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of which river ?Nile
57%
1948 – Which member of the British Royal Family is born on this day ?Prince Charles
57%
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed union movement, is released after eleven months of internment. What was the movement called ?Solidarity
57%
2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in which city ?Washington D.C.
57%
1886 – Friedrich Soennecken first developed which office tool ?Hole Puncher
43%
1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart is published by which magazine ?New Musical Express
43%
1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in which US state ?Louisiana
29%
1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around which planet ?Mars
29%
1991 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to which city after thirteen years of exile ?Phnom Penh
29%
1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, at which venue ?Westminster Abbey
29%
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 ?72
0%
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for the world's first what ?Laser
0%

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