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On This Day (September 19th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 19th ?
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1. 1356 – Hundred Years War: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II in a battle at which place ?
Toulouse ✓
Poitiers ✓
Perpignan ✓
Nancy ✓
2. 1846 – Two French shepherd children experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop now known as Our Lady of La Salette in which mountain range ?
French Alps ✓
Pyrenees ✓
Massif Central ✓
Vosges ✓
3. 1852 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the Observatory of Capodimonte. Massalia is approximately how many kilometers in diameter ?
260 ✓
450 ✓
90 ✓
145 ✓
4. 1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, in the Northwest of which state ?
Kentucky ✓
Virginia ✓
Georgia ✓
Ohio ✓
5. 1868 – La Gloriosa begins in Spain. What is La Gloriosa ?
Revolution ✓
Public Holiday ✓
Pilgrimage ✓
Festival ✓
6. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for how long before surrendering ?
Eight weeks ✓
Four months ✓
Six months ✓
Two weeks ✓
7. 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Who becomes President upon Garfield's death ?
Grover Cleveland ✓
Rutherford B. Hayes ✓
Benjamin Harrison ✓
Chester A. Arthur ✓
8. 1916 – World War I: Colonial forces of the Belgian Congo capture the town of Tabora. In which country was Tabora ?
German East Africa ✓
Togoland ✓
German South West Africa ✓
Kamerun ✓
9. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Hurtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought. Where is Hurtgen Forest ?
Belgium ✓
Luxembourg ✓
Germany ✓
France ✓
10. 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by which world leader at the University of Zurich ?
Charles de Gaulle ✓
Winston Churchill ✓
Harry S. Truman ✓
King George VI ✓
11. 1970 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival. How much did a ticket cost ?
£5 ✓
£10 ✓
£1 ✓
£20 ✓
12. 1978 – Which island nation joins the United Nations ?
St. Kitts and Nevis ✓
Solomon Islands ✓
Marshall Islands ✓
Cape Verde ✓
13. 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. What were they ?
:-D and :-) ✓
=) and =( ✓
:-) and :-( ✓
'_' and *_* ✓
14. 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. He lived around which year ?
3300 BCE ✓
2100 BCE ✓
1700 BCE ✓
4500 BCE ✓
15. 2019 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in which country ?
Iraq ✓
Syria ✓
Afghanistan ✓
Iran ✓
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