Statistics for On This Day (October 12th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 7 times
  • The average score is 7 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO and is immediately followed by which country ?Israel
80%
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from which company ?Lockheed
80%
1915 – World War I: Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. What was her occupation ?Nurse
80%
1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of which city comes to an end ?Athens
60%
1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in a bomb in a hotel in which UK city ?Brighton
60%
1968 – Which African country becomes independent from Spain ?Equatorial Guinea
60%
1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev does what at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion ?Pounds his shoe on a desk
60%
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Where was Hatfield Chase ?South Yorkshire
60%
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of which planet ?Venus
60%
1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, but where ?Bahamas
40%
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at a children's hospital in which city ?Boston, USA
40%
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the White House. What was it known as before ?Executive Mansion
20%
2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20 in which city ?New Orleans
20%
1773 – America's first of what type of building opens ?Insane Asylum
0%
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to do what ?Parachute from a balloon
0%

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