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On This Day (November 9th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on November 9th?
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1. 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in which city ?
Belgrade ✓
Athens ✓
Rome ✓
Prague ✓
2. 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land. But where ?
Cape Elizabeth, Maine ✓
Cape Cod, Massachusetts ✓
Long Island, New York ✓
Cape May, Pennsylvania ✓
3. 1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures which city in the South of England ?
Southampton ✓
Portsmouth ✓
Plymouth ✓
Exeter ✓
4. 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, in which city ?
Montreal ✓
Edmonton ✓
Toronto ✓
Halifax ✓
5. 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. Where did he go ?
Canada ✓
Panama ✓
Mexico ✓
United Kingdom ✓
6. 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. In which country was the diamond found ?
South Africa ✓
Russia ✓
Canada ✓
Republic of Congo ✓
7. 1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate what ?
Building of Concentration Camps ✓
Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews ✓
A build up of forces along the Polish border ✓
The end of diplomatic relations with several countries ✓
8. 1953 – Cambodia gains independence from which nation ?
Netherlands ✓
United Kingdom ✓
France ✓
Portugal ✓
9. 1967 – The first issue of which magazine is published ?
Private Eye ✓
Playboy ✓
Charlie Hebdo‎ ✓
Rolling Stone ✓
10. 1993 – Stari Most, the "old bridge", built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces in which Bosnian city ?
Sarajevo ✓
Mostar ✓
Banja Luka ✓
Tuzla ✓
11. 1994 – Which chemical element is discovered ?
Darmstadtium ✓
Copernicium ✓
Tennessine ✓
Mendelevium ✓
12. 1998 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay how much to cheated NASDAQ investors ?
$2.1 billion ✓
$796 million ✓
$1.03 billion ✓
$3.9 billion ✓
13. 2004 – Which web browser is released ?
Bing ✓
MSN Search ✓
Firefox 1.0 ✓
Altavista ✓
14. 2005 – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in which capital city, killing at least 60 people ?
Amman ✓
Paris ✓
Delhi ✓
Tehran ✓
15. 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in which city ?
Sao Paulo, Brazil ✓
Perm, Russia ✓
Hanoi, Vietnam ✓
Colombo, Sri Lanka ✓
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