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On This Day (October 7th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 7th?
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1.
1477 – Which Swedish university is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year ?
Uppsala
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Gothenburg
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Stockholm
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Linkoping
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2.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. in which state ?
New York
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Massachusetts
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New Jersey
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Maine
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3.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of which nation ?
Sweden
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Norway
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Netherlands
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Denmark
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4.
1864 – American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in which Brazilian seaport ?
Recife
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Belem
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Salvador
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Sao Luis
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5.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris by what means ?
Through the underground catacombs
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In a foul waste cart
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Dressed as a female refugee
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Hot Air Balloon
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6.
1912 – The Stock Exchange of which city sees its first transaction ?
Helsinki
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Lisbon
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Frankfurt
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Zagreb
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7.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University in the most lopsided college football game in American history. What was the score ?
156 - 3
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354 - 12
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222 - 0
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98 - 0
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1919 – Which airline, the oldest still operating under its original name, is founded ?
Lufthansa
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KLM
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British Airways
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QANTAS
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9.
1944 – World War II: During an uprising, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV, in which concentration camp ?
Birkenau
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Belsen
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Auschwitz
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Dachau
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1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. What was it's original name ?
Project Spaceman
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Project Rocket
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Project Astronaut
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Project Stingray
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11.
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of what ?
Earth from Space
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Near side of the Moon
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Far side of the Moon
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Earth with the Sun behind
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12.
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people on which island ?
Cuba
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Puerto Rico
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Jamaica
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Grand Cayman
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13.
1988 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice, the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. Off the coast of where ?
Alaska, USA
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Manitoba, Canada
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Greenland
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Kamchatka, USSR
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14.
1996 – Which news channel begins broadcasting ?
MSNBC
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CNN
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BBC World
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Fox News
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15.
2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first asteroid impact detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere. It exploded over which country ?
Russia
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Sudan
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Mexico
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Australia
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Capybarra
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Level 43
Feb 9, 2024
Lol this is my birthday
toowise
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Level 78
Feb 9, 2024
Happy Birthday for later in the year. This quiz will be updated on or around the date. It will be updated every leap year!
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