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On This Day (November 15th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 15th?
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Last updated: November 15, 2020
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1. 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. Cuzco is in which modern day country ?
Chile ✓
Bolivia ✓
Paraguay ✓
Peru ✓
2. 1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in which European capital city is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows ?
Andorra la Vella ✓
Vaduz ✓
Valletta ✓
Madrid ✓
3. 1889 – Which country is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup ?
Mexico ✓
Brazil ✓
Sierra Leone ✓
Italy ✓
4. 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in which European city ?
Geneva ✓
Barcelona ✓
Manchester ✓
Milan ✓
5. 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with how many stations ?
24 ✓
39 ✓
12 ✓
18 ✓
6. 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of which memorial ?
Washington Monument ✓
Lincoln Memorial ✓
FDR memorial ✓
Jefferson Memorial ✓
7. 1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that which people are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps" ?
Homosexuals ✓
Gypsies ✓
African origin ✓
Homeless ✓
8. 1955 – The first part of which city's Metro is opened ?
Montreal ✓
Shanghai ✓
St. Petersburg ✓
Barcelona ✓
9. 1962 – Jetpunk user "toowise" is born in which town in the UK ?
Nantwich, Cheshire ✓
Maryport, Cumbria ✓
Totnes, Devon ✓
Caistor, Norfolk ✓
10. 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in which body of water ?
Gulf of Mexico ✓
Barents Sea ✓
Bay of Biscay ✓
Indian Ocean ✓
11. 1971 – Which company releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004 ?
IBM ✓
Fujitsu ✓
Hewlett-Packard ✓
Intel ✓
12. 1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a plane forcing it to make an emergency landing. On what route was the flight ?
New York to Dallas ✓
Chicago to Washington D.C. ✓
Los Angeles to Nashville ✓
Boston to Miami ✓
13. 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in which country ?
Netherlands ✓
Germany ✓
Sweden ✓
United Kingdom ✓
14. 2006 – An English language service of which news channel launches worldwide ?
France 24 ✓
NHK World Japan ✓
Al Jazeera ✓
Russia Today ✓
15. 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits which country, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest ?
Sri Lanka ✓
Bangladesh ✓
Malaysia ✓
Philippines ✓
1ProximaCentauri
+3
Level 55
Nov 15, 2020
Got 8/15 this time. Happy Birthday YY!
toowise
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Level 78
Nov 15, 2020
Thank you, you're getting better or the questions are getting easier!
squidpsyco
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2022
Wow, we have the same birthday!
toowise
+1
Level 78
Sep 29, 2022
Finally I have a JetPunk twin !
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