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On This Day (November 22nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 22nd?
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1. 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. What was the name of the Frankish king ?
Charles the Bald
Louis the Simple
Henry the Brave
John the Younger
2. 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of which modern day country ?
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Peru
3. 1718 – The Royal Navy attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach off the coast of North Carolina. By what name was Teach better known ?
Bluebeard
Blackbeard
Greybeard
Whitebeard
4. 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched. On what river was she built ?
River Clyde
River Solway
River Forth
River Leven
5. 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with which city ?
Tokyo
Brisbane
Manila
Jakarta
6. 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek meet in which city to discuss ways to defeat Japan ?
Reykjavik
Cairo
Stockholm
Lisbon
7. 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from which nation ?
France
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Spain
8. 1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in which location ?
Tokyo, Japan
Paris, France
Los Angeles, USA
Melbourne, Australia
9. 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald in which city ?
Dallas
Somewhere other than Dallas
Someplace thats not Dallas
We all know its answer 1..Dallas
10. 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in which mountainous region ?
Pennines
Cairngorms
Snowdonia
Lake District
11. 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular supersonic Concorde service from London to which city ?
Hong Kong
Rio de Janiero
New York
Toronto
12. 1995 – Which movie is released as the first feature-length film created by using only computer-generated imagery ?
Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Shrek
Antz
13. 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of which contest ?
Lagos Marathon
Miss World
World's Strongest Man
Red Bull Soapbox Race
14. 2003 – Shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, a cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land. Which company operated the plane ?
UPS
FedEx
TNT
DHL Express
15. 2003 – England defeats which nation in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament ?
Australia
Samoa
South Africa
New Zealand
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