Statistics for On This Day (October 21st) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 6 times
  • The average score is 8 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1944 – World War II: Which city falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies ?Aachen
80%
1953 – Eric Faulkner, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is best known as a member of which Scottish band ?Bay City Rollers
80%
1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to which war ?Crimean War
80%
1986 – Pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy, in which Middle Eastern country ?Lebanon
80%
1774 – The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include which word ?Liberty
80%
1910 – HMS Niobe arrives in which harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy ?Halifax
60%
1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for which invention ?Incandescent light bulb
60%
1959 – In New York City, which museum opens to the public ?Solomon R. Guggenheim
60%
1966 – A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in which region of the UK, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren ?South Wales
60%
1940 – The first edition of which Ernest Hemingway novel is published ?For Whom the Bell Tolls
40%
1945 – Women vote for the first time during the 1945 legislative election in which country ?France
40%
1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by which Pope ?Innocent III
20%
1520 – João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. He calls them by what name ?Islands of the 11,000 Virgins
20%
2005 – Images of which dwarf planet are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery ?Eris
0%
1907 – The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of which two countries ?Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
0%

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