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On This Day (September 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 16th ?
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1. 1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on which ship ?
Mayflower ✓
Beagle ✓
Mary Rose ✓
Victory ✓
2. 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. He is sometimes called what ?
Old Faithful ✓
Old Rednose ✓
Old Pretender ✓
Old Blueblood ✓
3. 1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert in which city ?
London ✓
Tehran ✓
Cairo ✓
Istanbul ✓
4. 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun, the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily, prints its first issue in which city in New York state ?
Albany ✓
Ithaca ✓
Syracuse ✓
Rochester ✓
5. 1908 – Which major motor manufacturer is founded ?
Toyota ✓
Peugeot ✓
General Motors ✓
Mercedes Benz ✓
6. 1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in which road in New York City ?
Wall Street ✓
Park Avenue ✓
Lexington Avenue ✓
Broadway ✓
7. 1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around which city ?
Palermo ✓
Salerno ✓
Brindisi ✓
Taranto ✓
8. 1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to do what ?
Travel under the Arctic Pack Ice ✓
Enter a US port overtly ✓
Sail up the Amazon river ✓
Launch a Ballistic Missile ✓
9. 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in which city ?
Kaohsiung, Taiwan ✓
Taizhou, China ✓
Osaka, Japan ✓
Davao, Philippines ✓
10. 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of which Samuel Barber composition ?
A Hand of Bridge ✓
Antony and Cleopatra ✓
Cave of the Heart ✓
Vanessa ✓
11. 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from which country ?
Australia ✓
New Zealand ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Portugal ✓
12. 1976 – Champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a reservoir in which Asian capital city ?
Yerevan ✓
Baku ✓
Bishkek ✓
Tashkent ✓
13. 1979 – Eight people escaped from which country to the west in a homemade hot air balloon ?
North Korea ✓
Albania ✓
East Germany ✓
Cuba ✓
14. 1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of which political organisation ?
Palestine Liberation Organisation ✓
Sinn Fein ✓
Communist Party of Great Britain ✓
Workers Revolutionary Party ✓
15. 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in which Italian city ?
Naples ✓
Palermo ✓
Milan ✓
Trieste ✓
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