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On This Day (October 22nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 22nd?
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1. 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō. Heian-kyō is now known as which city ?
Kyoto ✓
Nagoya ✓
Tokyo ✓
Osaka ✓
2. 1707 – Four British naval vessels run aground on which group of islands because of faulty navigation ?
Channel Islands ✓
Shetland ✓
Isles of Scilly ✓
Orkney ✓
3. 1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed. In which modern day country ?
Indonesia ✓
Russia ✓
Germany ✓
China ✓
4. 1746 – The College of New Jersey receives its charter. By what name is it now known ?
Harvard ✓
M.I.T. ✓
Caltech ✓
Princeton ✓
5. 1784 – Russia founds a colony on which Alaskan island ?
Unalaska Island ✓
St. Lawrence Island ✓
Kodiak Island ✓
Great Diomede Island ✓
6. 1844 – Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world. The following day became known as what ?
The Great Disappointment ✓
The First Day Forward ✓
Satan's Revenge ✓
A New Dawn ✓
7. 1878 – The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights in which UK city ?
Preston ✓
Leicester ✓
Exeter ✓
Sheffield ✓
8. 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen is convicted of poisoning his wife. He is the first felon to be arrested with the help of what ?
Fingerprints ✓
Radio ✓
Blood Groups ✓
Identity Parade ✓
9. 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill which notorious bank robber ?
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd ✓
John Herbert Dillinger ✓
George "Baby Face" Nelson ✓
Clyde Barrow ✓
10. 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in which field, but turns down the honour ?
Peace ✓
Chemistry ✓
Literature ✓
Physics ✓
11. 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album. What was it called ?
I Hear a Symphony ✓
The Supremes at the Copa ✓
Cream of the Crop ✓
The Supremes A' Go-Go ✓
12. 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of which animal ?
Dogs ✓
Cats ✓
Horses ✓
Humans ✓
13. 2001 – Which game is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games ?
Aliens versus Predator 2 ✓
Final Fantasy X ✓
Grand Theft Auto III ✓
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty ✓
14. 2013 – Which Australian jurisdiction becomes the first to legalize same-sex marriage ?
Queensland ✓
Australian Capital Territory ✓
New South Wales ✓
Tasmania ✓
15. 2014 – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of which country, killing a soldier and injuring three other people ?
United Kingdom ✓
France ✓
South Korea ✓
Canada ✓
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