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On This Day (November 18th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 18th?
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1. 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. On the same day in which year is the new St Peter's Basilica is consecrated ?
1527 ✓
1626 ✓
1701 ✓
1798 ✓
2. 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known by what name ?
Puerto Rico ✓
St. Lucia ✓
Bermuda ✓
Cuba ✓
3. 1760 – The rebuilt debtors' prison receives it's first prisoners at the Castellania in which city ?
Naples ✓
Limassol ✓
Palermo ✓
Valletta ✓
4. 1865 – Which Mark Twain short story is published in the New York Saturday Press ?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" ✓
A Dog's Tale ✓
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg ✓
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven ✓
5. 1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over what ?
Trans - American Highway ✓
The Darian Gap ✓
Panama Canal Zone ✓
Mineral deposits in Panama ✓
6. 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of which country ?
Malta ✓
Greece ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Libya ✓
7. 1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to which country ?
South Vietnam ✓
Korea ✓
Cambodia ✓
Nicaragua ✓
8. 1963 – The first of which type of telephone goes into service ?
Direct Dial ✓
Radio mobile ✓
Push Button ✓
Card payment ✓
9. 1971 – Oman declares its independence from which country ?
Saudi Arabia ✓
France ✓
Spain ✓
United Kingdom ✓
10. 1987 – In London, 31 people die in a fire at one of the city's busiest underground stations, but which one ?
Oxford Circus ✓
King's Cross St Pancras ✓
Victoria ✓
Liverpool Street ✓
11. 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing what punishment for drug traffickers ?
Death Penalty ✓
Whole Life without parole ✓
Maximum 50 years imprisonment ✓
Minimum 25 years imprisonment ✓
12. 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after how many days ?
2,045 days ✓
1,294 days ✓
1,763 days ✓
971 days ✓
13. 1991 – After an 87-day siege, which Croatian city capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army ?
Zadar ✓
Vukovar ✓
Dubrovnik ✓
Split ✓
14. 2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in which country ?
Iran ✓
Libya ✓
Syria ✓
Iraq ✓
15. 2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to which planet ?
Saturn ✓
Neptune ✓
Mars ✓
Jupiter ✓
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