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On This Day (October 18th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 18th?
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1. 1356 – The most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys which town ?
Colmar, France ✓
Basel, Switzerland ✓
Ulm, Germany ✓
Linz, Austria ✓
2. 1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila. Mabila is in which present-day US state ?
Alabama ✓
Texas ✓
Arizona ✓
Mississippi ✓
3. 1648 – In Boston, members of which occupation form the first American labor organization ?
Blacksmiths ✓
Bakers ✓
Brewers ✓
Shoemakers ✓
4. 1851 – Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is first published in London, but titled by what name ?
Ishmael ✓
Tales of the Sea ✓
The Whale ✓
The Adventures of Captain Ahab ✓
5. 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for how much ?
$7.2 million ✓
$6.8 million ✓
$9.4 million ✓
$5.5 million ✓
6. 1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. What was it's aim ?
Creation of a Nazi State ✓
Spiritual Renewal of the Catholic Church ✓
Votes for all Citizens ✓
Abolition of Capital Punishment ✓
7. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of which country from Nazi Germany ?
Czechoslovakia ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Hungary ✓
Poland ✓
8. 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first what ?
Electronic Calculator ✓
Digital Watch ✓
CB Radio ✓
Transistor Radio ✓
9. 1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat to be what ?
Used to plant a bug in an embassy ✓
Elected Mayor ✓
Launched into Space ✓
Taken as a pet by the French president ✓
10. 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. But which one ?
Mars ✓
Venus ✓
Mercury ✓
Jupiter ✓
11. 1991 – The Supreme Council of which country adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union ?
Georgia ✓
Uzbekistan ✓
Kyrgyzstan ✓
Azerbaijan ✓
12. 2003 – Following a dispute about gas reserves President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave which country ?
Venezuela ✓
Paraguay ✓
Bolivia ✓
Chile ✓
13. 2011 – Spaceport America officially opens in which state as the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport ?
New Mexico ✓
Texas ✓
California ✓
Nevada ✓
14. 2015 –Tens of thousands of junior doctors rally to protest against contract changes to their working week, in which city ?
Paris ✓
London ✓
Washington ✓
Canberra ✓
15. 2019 – Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-women spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace what ?
Power Controller ✓
Radio Antenna ✓
Solar Panel ✓
Measuring Device ✓
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