Statistics for On This Day (October 4th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 7 times
  • The average score is 5 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting which monument ?Mount Rushmore
83%
1957 – What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth ?Sputnik 1
83%
1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against which Leader rally outside ?Boris Yeltsin
67%
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed as which country ?Lesotho
67%
2006 – Which controversial website is launched ?WikiLeaks
67%
1824 – Which country adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic ?Mexico
33%
1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College opens as the first public college in which US state ?Texas
33%
AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese city of Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. Cnang'an is known by what name today ?Xi'an
33%
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of over 633 miles per hour. But where ?Black Rock Desert, Nevada
17%
1883 – First meeting of which organisation in Glasgow, Scotland ?Boys Brigade
17%
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant missile from which country ?Ukraine
17%
1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now which US state ?Georgia
0%
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in which country ?Mozambique
0%
1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by which Pope ?Pope Gregory XIII
0%
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
0%

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