Statistics for On This Day (September 17th) Multiple Choice

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  • The average score is 8 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black what ?Miss America
88%
1925 – Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up what ?Art
75%
2013 – Which computer game earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release ?Grand Theft Auto V
63%
1935 – The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations for what reason ?Landslide
63%
1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules". What did he mean by animalcules ?Micro-organisms found in water
63%
1940 – World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones which military operation ?Operation Sea Lion
63%
1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and which other country ?Egypt
50%
1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and who ?Native American Tribes
50%
1961 – The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in which city ?Pittsburgh
50%
1809 – Peace between which country and Russia in the Finnish War ?Sweden
50%
2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least how many years ?10,000
38%
1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near which French town ?Cambrai
38%
1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for which time ?Third
38%
1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of where" ?United States
25%
1630 – Which US city is founded ?Boston
13%

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