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On This Day (September 15th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 15th ?
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1. 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in Syracuse, Italy. What was he doing at the time ?
Speaking in public ✓
Eating breakfast ✓
Taking a bath ✓
Buying slaves ✓
2. 1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar. The Doom Bar is at the mouth of which British river ?
River Camel ✓
River Weaver ✓
River Wear ✓
River Ouse ✓
3. 1830 – British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive known as what ?
Blücher ✓
Rocket ✓
Puffing Billy ✓
Invicta ✓
4. 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches which island group ?
Azores ✓
Falkland Islands ✓
Canary Islands ✓
Galápagos Islands ✓
5. 1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in which US city ?
Boston ✓
Philadelphia ✓
Nashville ✓
Des Moines ✓
6. 1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, in which state ?
New South Wales ✓
Queensland ✓
Victoria ✓
Western Australia ✓
7. 1916 – World War I: What are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme ?
Railway Locomotives ✓
Flame Throwers ✓
Tanks ✓
Landmines ✓
8. 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in which Canadian province as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy ?
New Brunswick ✓
Quebec ✓
Alberta ✓
Saskatchewan ✓
9. 1945 – A hurricane strikes which part of the US, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps ?
New England ✓
Texas Coastline ✓
Florida Panhandle ✓
Southern Florida ✓
10. 1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at what speed ?
671 mph ✓
723 mph ✓
590 mph ✓
836 mph ✓
11. 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit which nation ?
Canada ✓
United Kingdom ✓
United States ✓
Japan ✓
12. 1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against what ?
Whaling ✓
Nuclear Testing ✓
Pollution ✓
Tuna Fishing ✓
13. 1975 – Which French department is divided into two ?
Corse ✓
Ile de France ✓
Alpes-Maritimes ✓
Haute-Savoie ✓
14. 2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in which city ?
London, UK ✓
Tokyo, Japan ✓
Los Angeles, USA ✓
Sydney, Australia ✓
15. 1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer is born. She was a founding member of which band ?
The Runaways ✓
Jefferson Airplane ✓
The Bangles ✓
Martha and the Muffins ✓
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