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On This Day (October 28th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 28th?
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1. 1420 – Which city is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty ?
Beijing ✓
Nanking ✓
Shanghai ✓
Wuhan ✓
2. 1492 – Christopher Columbus lands on which island on his first voyage to the New World ?
Hispaniola ✓
Jamaica ✓
Cuba ✓
Bermuda ✓
3. 1538 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now which country ?
Belize ✓
Ecuador ✓
St. Lucia ✓
Dominican Republic ✓
4. 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot is established. It was later to be known as which part of the British military ?
Royal Marines ✓
Royal Navy ✓
Special Boat Service ✓
Infantry Regiment ✓
5. 1726 – The novel Gulliver's Travels is published. Who wrote the novel ?
Charles Dickens ✓
Jonathan Swift ✓
James Boswell ✓
Charlotte Turner Smith ✓
6. 1834 – The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists in which country ?
New Zealand ✓
South Africa ✓
Australia ✓
India ✓
7. 1886 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates which landmark ?
Mount Rushmore ✓
St. Louis Arch ✓
Lincoln Memorial ✓
Statue of Liberty ✓
8. 1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, "Pathétique" receives its première performance how long before the composer's death ?
Nine hours ✓
Nine days ✓
Nine weeks ✓
Nine months ✓
9. 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for what to begin the following January ?
Presidential Election Campaigning ✓
Higher Taxation ✓
Alcohol Prohibition ✓
Interstate Highway Construction ✓
10. 1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at which city in Canada ?
Dawson Creek ✓
Prince George ✓
Whitehorse ✓
Kamloops ✓
11. 1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in which island group, killing all 48 people on board ?
Balearic Islands ✓
Azores ✓
Canary Islands ✓
Cayman Islands ✓
12. 1958 – Which Pope is elected ?
Pope Pius XII ✓
Pope Paul VI ✓
Pope John XXIII ✓
Pope Benedict XV ✓
13. 1990 – Which country holds its only free election under Soviet rule ?
Armenia ✓
Latvia ✓
Azerbaijan ✓
Georgia ✓
14. 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of which country ?
Guatemala ✓
Argentina ✓
Spain ✓
Costa Rica ✓
15. Today in the US is marked as what ?
National Chocolate Day ✓
National Nut Day ✓
National Vodka Day ✓
National Pancake Day ✓
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