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On This Day (October 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 13th?
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1. 1269 – The present church at which religious building is consecrated ?
Westminster Abbey, London ✓
La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona ✓
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul ✓
St. Pauls Cathedral, London ✓
2. 1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces. Port Royal is now a city in which Canadian province ?
New Brunswick ✓
Nova Scotia ✓
Newfoundland ✓
Quebec ✓
3. 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of which country is publicly proclaimed ?
Colombia ✓
Kenya ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Mexico ✓
4. 1843 – B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded in which city ?
Jerusalem ✓
London ✓
New York ✓
Warsaw ✓
5. 1884 – The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of which building as the prime meridian ?
St. Pauls Cathedral ✓
Greenwich Observatory ✓
Eiffel Tower ✓
Edinburgh Castle ✓
6. 1903 – The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series. But who did they defeat ?
Pittsburgh Pirates ✓
New York Yankees ✓
Los Angeles Dodgers ✓
Atlanta Braves ✓
7. 1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in which country ?
Spain ✓
Brazil ✓
Portugal ✓
Mexico ✓
8. 1923 – Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey. Which city was the previous capital ?
Izmir ✓
Istanbul ✓
Adana ✓
Antalya ✓
9. 1944 – World War II: A Soviet offensive captures which city ?
Minsk ✓
Vilnius ✓
Tallinn ✓
Riga ✓
10. 1976 – The first electron micrograph of which virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy ?
Ebola ✓
HIV ✓
Dengue ✓
Zika ✓
11. 1983 – Which company launches the first US cellular network in Chicago ?
T - Mobile ✓
Alltel ✓
Ameritech Mobile Communications ✓
Dish Wireless ✓
12. 2010 – The mining accident ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground in which country ?
Chile ✓
Argentina ✓
Brazil ✓
Bolivia ✓
13. 2016 – Which country announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations ?
Seychelles ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Maldives ✓
Pakistan ✓
14. 2019 – Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a female runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Marathon in which city ?
London ✓
New York ✓
Rio de Janiero ✓
Chicago ✓
15. Today is marked as an awareness day for which medical condition ?
World Cancer Day ✓
World Thrombosis Day ✓
World Heart Disease Day ✓
World Alopecia Day ✓
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