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On This Day (November 23rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 23rd?
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1. 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in which city ?
New York ✓
San Francisco ✓
Philadelphia ✓
New Orleans ✓
2. 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in which country ?
Sweden ✓
Norway ✓
Ireland ✓
Spain ✓
3. 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of which religious organisation ?
Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church ✓
Free Church of Scotland ✓
Swedish Evangelical Mission ✓
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ✓
4. 1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in which newspaper ?
Washington Post ✓
Chicago Tribune ✓
New York Times ✓
Los Angeles Times ✓
5. 1936 – Which magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success ?
Life ✓
Vogue ✓
National Geographic ✓
Reader's Digest ✓
6. 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to the north of which island group ?
Azores ✓
Faroes ✓
Canaries ✓
Maldives ✓
7. 1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over which of the Great Lakes ?
Huron ✓
Erie ✓
Michigan ✓
Superior ✓
8. 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of which nation ?
New Zealand ✓
Jamaica ✓
Australia ✓
Fiji ✓
9. 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals" in a speech made in which French city ?
Amiens ✓
Strasbourg ✓
Nice ✓
Bordeaux ✓
10. 1963 – The BBC broadcasts "An Unearthly Child", the first episode of the first story from the first series of which long running TV show ?
Dr. Who ✓
The Sky at Night ✓
Coronation Street ✓
The Twilight Zone ✓
11. 1974 – Sixty politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government in which African city ?
Khartoum ✓
Addis Ababa ✓
Mogadishu ✓
Harare ✓
12. 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress is born. What was the name of her character in the Disney Channel teen series ?
Jane Maine ✓
Rona Arizona ✓
Claire Delaware ✓
Hannah Montana ✓
13. 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of which country after running out of fuel ?
Seychelles ✓
Madagascar ✓
Comoros ✓
Mauritius ✓
14. 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first woman to lead an African country when she is elected president of which nation ?
Liberia ✓
Togo ✓
Ghana ✓
Burkina Faso ✓
15. 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean after hitting an iceberg near which island group ?
South Orkney Islands ✓
South Sandwich Islands ✓
Heard andMcDonald Islands ✓
South Shetland Islands ✓
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