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On This Day (October 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 8th?
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1. 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of where ?
Macedonia
Greece
Croatia
Bosnia
2. 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England after becoming the second wife of which king ?
King John
King Henry III
King Edward I
King Richard I
3. 1480 – The Great stand on the Ugra river puts an end to Tartar rule over which city ?
St. Petersburg
Odessa
Murmansk
Moscow
4. 1821 – Which nations Navy is established during the War of Independence ?
Peru
Ecuador
Brazil
Venezuela
5. 1829 – Which locomotive wins the Rainhill Trials ?
Perseverance
Rocket
Novelty
Cycloped
6. 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by infiltrators from which country ?
Russia
China
Japan
France
7. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a game of which sport ?
Football
Baseball
Hockey
Basketball
8. 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach which body of water ?
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
Lake Baikal
Sea of Azov
9. 1956 – Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series. Which team was he playing for ?
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Cleveland Indians
St. Louis Cardinals
10. 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in which country ?
Cuba
Peru
Bolivia
Colombia
11. 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in which field ?
Chemistry
Literature
Peace
Physics
12. 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of which country ?
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
13. 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at which venue ?
Lake Windermere, UK
Lake Guntersville, USA
Blowering Dam, Australia
Lake Maggiore, Italy / Switzerland
14. 2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan dies, he was the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with what disease ?
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Ebola virus
Marburg virus
Zika virus
15. 2019 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of parliament in which city ?
Dublin
London
Paris
Berlin
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