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On This Day (October 4th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 4th?
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1. AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese city of Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. Cnang'an is known by what name today ?
Beijing ✓
Xi'an ✓
Shanghai ✓
Wuhan ✓
2. 1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by which Pope ?
Pope Gregory X ✓
Pope Gregory IX ✓
Pope Gregory XIII ✓
Pope Gregory XI ✓
3. 1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now which US state ?
Georgia ✓
Florida ✓
Alabama ✓
Louisiana ✓
4. 1824 – Which country adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic ?
Germany ✓
Japan ✓
Argentina ✓
Mexico ✓
5. 1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College opens as the first public college in which US state ?
California ✓
Texas ✓
Wisconsin ✓
Missouri ✓
6. 1883 – The first run of the Orient Express departs from Paris to Istanbul (then Constantinople). The last leg was by ferry from which city ?
Varna, Bulgaria ✓
Constanta, Romania ✓
Thessaloniki, Greece ✓
Odessa, Russia ✓
7. 1883 – First meeting of which organisation in Glasgow, Scotland ?
Salvation Army ✓
Girl Guides ✓
Boys Brigade ✓
Boy Scouts ✓
8. 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting which monument ?
Stone Mountain ✓
Mount Rushmore ✓
North Carolina Monument ✓
Bust of Abraham Lincoln ✓
9. 1957 – What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth ?
Sputnik 1 ✓
Vanguard 1A ✓
Sputnik 2 ✓
Explorer 1 ✓
10. 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed as which country ?
Swaziland ✓
Central African Republic ✓
Rwanda ✓
Lesotho ✓
11. 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of over 633 miles per hour. But where ?
Lake Eyre, Australia ✓
Black Rock Desert, Nevada ✓
Pendine Sands, South Wales ✓
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah ✓
12. 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in which country ?
Sierra Leone ✓
Mozambique ✓
El Salvador ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
13. 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against which Leader rally outside ?
Boris Yeltsin ✓
Vladimir Putin ✓
Mikhail Gorbachev ✓
Konstantin Chernenko ✓
14. 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant missile from which country ?
Belarus ✓
Russia ✓
Kazakhstan ✓
Ukraine ✓
15. 2006 – Which controversial website is launched ?
The Pirate Bay ✓
WikiLeaks ✓
Encyclopedia Dramatica ✓
Uncyclopedia ✓
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