Statistics for On This Day (September 10th) Multiple Choice

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  • This quiz has been taken 10 times
  • The average score is 7 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by what means ?Guillotine
89%
1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal. What event did he win ?Marathon
78%
1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in which city ?Hamburg
67%
2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the civil war in which country ?Sierra Leone
67%
1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship is held at which British stadium ?Wembley, London
67%
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for which type of device ?Sewing Machine
56%
1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. What was the empress' nickname ?Sisi
56%
1967 – The people of which overseas territory vote to remain a British dependency ?Gibraltar
44%
1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address what problem in the Mediterranean Sea ?International Piracy
44%
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of which country ?Norway
44%
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. How many more asteroids did he discover ?None
33%
1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits which city ?Constantinople
22%
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in which Swiss city ?Geneva
22%
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland takes place near which town ?Musselburgh
22%
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on which island ?Madagascar
11%

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