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On This Day (September 20th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 20th ?
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1. 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as which Antipope ?
Clement VII ✓
Alexander V ✓
Benedict XIII ✓
John XXIII ✓
2. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Where is Sanlucar de Barrameda ?
Portugal ✓
Spain ✓
Italy ✓
France ✓
3. 1835 – Which decade-long war starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil ?
War of the Generals ✓
Thousand Days' War ✓
Ragamuffin War ✓
Contestado War ✓
4. 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of which city by troops loyal to the East India Company ?
Mumbai ✓
Chennai ✓
Kolkatta ✓
Delhi ✓
5. 1906 – The Cunard Line's "RMS Mauretania" is launched at which port ?
Belfast ✓
Liverpool ✓
Newcastle upon Tyne ✓
Southampton ✓
6. 1942 – The Holocaust: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv in which country ?
Poland ✓
Ukraine ✓
Lithuania ✓
Belarus ✓
7. 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed due to World War II. Which British film won the most prestigious award ?
Brief Encounter ✓
The Lost Weekend ✓
The Third Man ✓
Men Without Wings ✓
8. 1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering which University ?
Princeton ✓
Mississippi ✓
Oxford ✓
Harvard ✓
9. 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched from which port ?
Portsmouth ✓
Belfast ✓
Clydebank ✓
Liverpool ✓
10. 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to do what ?
Have a name change ✓
Reverse direction ✓
Make landfall in the same place twice ✓
Cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific. ✓
11. 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, and five others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in which US state ?
Georgia ✓
Alabama ✓
Louisiana ✓
Florida ✓
12. 1977 – Which Asian country is admitted to the United Nations ?
Mongolia ✓
Vietnam ✓
Nepal ✓
Afghanistan ✓
13. 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in which city ?
Beirut, Lebanon ✓
Damascus, Syria ✓
Amman, Jordan ✓
Jerusalem, Israel ✓
14. 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on ....." , what ?
Drugs ✓
Terror ✓
Obesity ✓
Slavery ✓
15. 2019 – Roughly 4 million people demonstrate against climate change. 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in which city ?
Stockholm ✓
London ✓
New York ✓
Tokyo ✓
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