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On This Day (November 8th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 8th?
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1.
1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to which island ?
Burano
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Giudecca
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Mazzorbo
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Murano
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2.
1602 – The Bodleian Library at which University is opened to the public ?
Oxford
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Cambridge
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Hamburg
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Reims
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3.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours, near which European city ?
Sofia
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Prague
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Budapest
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Warsaw
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4.
1889 – Which state is admitted as the 41st U.S. state ?
Colorado
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Washington
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Montana
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Wisconsin
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5.
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray whilst experimenting with what ?
Electricity
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Uranium
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Photography
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Phosphorus
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6.
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in which city ?
Berlin
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Munich
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Cologne
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Stuttgart
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7.
1946 – Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He was a co-founder of which band ?
Black Sabbath
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Slade
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Electric Light Orchestra
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Dire Straits
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8.
1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and and which other city ?
Honolulu
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Anchorage
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Mexico City
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Tokyo
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9.
1957 – The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over which island in the Pacific ?
Cocos Island
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Clipperton Island
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Christmas Island
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Caroline Island
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10.
1965 – The Murder Act 1965 is passed, abolishing the death penalty in the UK, except in certain cases. In what year was the death penalty completely abolished ?
2001
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1987
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1979
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1998
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11.
1973 – Which body part of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million ?
Finger
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Right Ear
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Left Ear
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Thumb
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12.
1987 – A Provisional IRA bomb explodes during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces in which Northern Irish town ?
Armagh
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Enniskillen
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Ballymena
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Coleraine
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13.
2004 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold in which city ?
Fallujah
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Baghdad
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Basrah
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Mosul
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14.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of which country ?
Malaysia
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Sri Lanka
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Philippines
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Japan
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15.
The USA celebrates which drink on this day ?
National Milk Day
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National Harvey Wallbanger Day
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National Hot Mulled Cider Day
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National Rum Punch Day
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