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On This Day (November 7th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 7th?
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1. 921 – The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship', to recognize their borders along which river ?
Rhine
Mosel
Elbe
Danube
2. 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside of Ensisheim in which country ?
Germany
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
3. 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society. Which state is it's home ?
Maine
Massachusetts
Maryland
Montana
4. 1861 – The first Melbourne Cup sports contest is held in Melbourne, Australia. What sport does it involve ?
Horse Racing
Sailing
Greyhound Racing
Australian Rules Football
5. 1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, in which province ?
New Brunswick
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
6. 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in which South American country ?
Venezuela
Bolivia
Colombia
Peru
7. 1929 – Which museum in New York City opens to the public ?
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Modern Art
American Folk Art Museum
8. 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the oldest offshore oil platform. In which modern day country is it located ?
Azerbaijan
Turkey
Oman
Iran
9. 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city. But which city ?
Detroit
Birmingham
Savannah
Cleveland
10. 1987 – President Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in which country ?
Morocco
Tunisia
Lebanon
Sudan
11. 1989 – Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests in which former country ?
East Germany
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
12. 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of which country ?
Ireland
New Zealand
Australia
Botswana
13. 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first what ?
24 hour "No Talk" Telethon
Simultaneous broadcast with a foreign radio station
Internet radio broadcast
Kids broadcasting day
14. 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in which state ?
Arkansas
Texas
Nevada
Kansas
15. 2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of which country kills at least 52 people ?
Chile
Guatemala
Colombia
Mexico
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