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On This Day (November 5th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 5th?
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1.
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested for trying to blow up which London building ?
Houses of Parliament
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Buckingham Palace
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St. Paul's Cathedral
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Westminster Abbey
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2.
1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by a Miami Chief known by what name ?
Sleeping Fox
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Little Turtle
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Great Bear
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Jumping Horse
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3.
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in which state ?
Delaware
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Maine
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Virginia
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North Carolina
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4.
1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined how much ?
$100
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$50
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$20
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$200
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5.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for what type of machine ?
Donut maker
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Automobile
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Printing Press
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Dry Cleaning
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6.
1917 – Which leader calls for the October Revolution ?
Georges Clemenceau
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David Lloyd George
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Vladimir Lenin
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Nicholas II
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7.
1940 – Who is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term ?
Harry S. Truman
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Herbert Hoover
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of an opera by which composer ?
Beethoven
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Mozart
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Tchaikovsky
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Puccini
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9.
1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit which Chinese city – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949 ?
Shanghai
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Tianjin
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Qingdao
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Shenzhen
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10.
1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel owned by which chain ?
Marriott
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Hilton
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Hyatt
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Holiday Inn
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11.
1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife does what ?
Raises the alarm
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Locks the door
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Shoots him
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Directs him to a different part of the house
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12.
2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by which company ?
Microsoft
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Apple
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Samsung
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Google
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13.
2013 – Which country launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe ?
India
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China
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United Kingdom
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France
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14.
2015 – Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of which country ?
Scotland
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Canada
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Australia
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New Zealand
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15.
Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated on this day in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and which Canadian province ?
Nova Scotia
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New Brunswick
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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British Columbia
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