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On This Day (November 27th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 27th?
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1. 511 – King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. Lutetia is now known as which French city ?
Lyon ✓
Paris ✓
Lille ✓
Nice ✓
2. 1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church is laid in which city ?
Cairo ✓
Singapore ✓
Berlin ✓
Boston ✓
3. 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for which crime in England ?
Theft ✓
Grave Robbing ✓
Impersonating a clergyman ✓
Sodomy ✓
4. 1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to which nation's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution ?
Luxembourg ✓
Argentina ✓
Morocco ✓
Lebanon ✓
5. 1868 – Battle of Washita River: U S Army Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads an attack on Native Americans from which tribe that are living on reservation land ?
Sioux ✓
Apache ✓
Cheyenne ✓
Cherokee ✓
6. 1942 – World War II: The French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands in which port ?
Cherbourg ✓
Toulon ✓
Marseille ✓
Le Havre ✓
7. 1945 – CARE was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II. What does the acronym CARE stand for ?
Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe ✓
Center for American Relief Establishments ✓
Caring And Real Empathy ✓
Charity for All Refugees in Europe ✓
8. 1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter is born. He is best known as the drummer in which thrash metal band ?
Slayer ✓
Motorhead ✓
Kreator ✓
Anthrax ✓
9. 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball. What other sport did she participate in ?
Nascar ✓
Horse Racing ✓
Baseball ✓
Diving ✓
10. 1971 – The Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. Which nation built it ?
United States ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Soviet Union ✓
France ✓
11. 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after he had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings across England. Whic book was he a co-founder of ?
Who's Who ✓
Roget's Thesaurus ✓
Old Moore's Almanack ✓
Guiness Book of Records ✓
12. 1978 – City mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White in which city ?
San Francisco ✓
New York ✓
Los Angeles ✓
Chicago ✓
13. 1989 – A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. Which organisation claimed responsibility ?
National Liberation Army (ELN) ✓
Medellín Cartel ✓
Al Qaeda ✓
The Shining Path ✓
14. 2001 – An atmosphere of which gas is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet ?
Helium ✓
Methane ✓
Nitrogen ✓
Hydrogen ✓
15. 2009 – A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and which other city ?
Perm ✓
St. Petersburg ✓
Kiev ✓
Minsk ✓
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