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On This Day (November 19th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 19th?
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1. 1816 – A university is established in which Eastern European city ?
Warsaw ✓
Prague ✓
Bucharest ✓
Budapest ✓
2. 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for which type of facility ?
Dockyard ✓
Army Base ✓
Military Cemetery ✓
Hospital ✓
3. 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal close to which city ?
Graz ✓
Baden Baden ✓
Gothenburg ✓
Odessa ✓
4. 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele. Doom Bar is at the mouth of which river ?
Tamar ✓
Camel ✓
Fal ✓
Fowey ✓
5. 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993. The kingdom is in which African country ?
Rwanda ✓
Uganda ✓
Kenya ✓
Tanzania ✓
6. 1946 – Iceland, Sweden and which other country join the United Nations ?
Afghanistan ✓
Finland ✓
Uruguay ✓
Andorra ✓
7. 1954 – Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III. What is it called ?
TV Monaco ✓
Cote d'Azur TV ✓
Tele Nice ✓
Tele Monte Carlo ✓
8. 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of which motor car ?
Mainline ✓
Edsel ✓
Del Rio Ranch Wagon ✓
Mercury Monterey ✓
9. 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in which city ?
New York ✓
Perth ✓
Hong Kong ✓
Johannesburg ✓
10. 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores which milestone goal ?
1,000th ✓
500th ✓
1,500th ✓
100th ✓
11. 1985 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. In which city ?
Oslo ✓
Geneva ✓
Lisbon ✓
Istanbul ✓
12. 1994 – In the UK, the first National Lottery draw is held. A ticket costing how much gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers ?
£2 ✓
£1.50 ✓
£5 ✓
£1 ✓
13. 1998 – Which painting by Vincent van Gogh sells at auction for US$71.5 million ?
Self-Portrait Without Beard ✓
Starry Night Over the Rhone ✓
Self-Portrait with Straw Hat ✓
The Church at Auvers ✓
14. 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in which country ?
Chile ✓
South Africa ✓
New Zealand ✓
United Kingdom ✓
15. 2019 – Which internet company launches its cloud gaming service Stadia ?
Microsoft ✓
Google ✓
Amazon ✓
Facebook ✓
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