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On This Day (October 9th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 9th?
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1. 1410 – The first known mention of the astronomical clock in which European city ?
Budapest ✓
Vienna ✓
Prague ✓
Zurich ✓
2. 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in which country ?
Korea ✓
China ✓
Japan ✓
Russia ✓
3. 1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on which island ?
Java ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Borneo ✓
Madagascar ✓
4. 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in Old Saybrook. It is later renamed as which university ?
Yale ✓
Harvard ✓
Princeton ✓
Columbia ✓
5. 1804 – Which Australian state capital is founded ?
Sydney ✓
Brisbane ✓
Perth ✓
Hobart ✓
6. 1824 – Slavery in Latin America: Slavery is abolished in which country ?
El Salvador ✓
Costa Rica ✓
Honduras ✓
Guatemala ✓
7. 1914 – World War I: The Siege of which city comes to an end ?
Strasbourg ✓
Maastricht ✓
Antwerp ✓
Reims ✓
8. 1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to which city ?
Los Angeles ✓
Seattle ✓
Las Vegas ✓
Houston ✓
9. 1941 – A coup in which country declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president ?
Mexico ✓
Panama ✓
Sao Tome and Principe ✓
Dominican Republic ✓
10. 1963 – A large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000. In which European country ?
Germany ✓
Switzerland ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Italy ✓
11. 1980 – Pope John Paul II greets which world figure during a private audience in Vatican City ?
Dalai Lama ✓
Princess Diana ✓
Mother Theresa ✓
Jimmy Carter ✓
12. 1981 – President François Mitterrand abolishes what in France ?
Tax on wine ✓
Capital Punishment ✓
Tobacco Advertising ✓
Visas for US citizens ✓
13. 1986 – Which play, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre ?
Chess ✓
Les Misérables ✓
The Phantom of the Opera ✓
42nd Street ✓
14. 2006 – Which country conducts its first nuclear test ?
Iran ✓
Pakistan ✓
Israel ✓
North Korea ✓
15. Today is known as which awareness day in the US ?
International Beer and Pizza Day ✓
More Herbs, Less Salt Day ✓
National Eat A Peach Day ✓
Gummi Worm Day ✓
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