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On This Day (September 22nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 22nd ?
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1. 1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes which war ?
Swabian War ✓
War of the Hungarian Succession ✓
Russo-Swedish War ✓
War of the League of Cambrai ✓
2. 1692 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the trials in which town ?
Lancaster, England ✓
Torsaker, Sweden ✓
Salem, Commonwealth of Massachusetts ✓
Salzburg, Austria ✓
3. 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for what crime during the American Revolution ?
Theft ✓
Spying ✓
Murder ✓
Smuggling ✓
4. 1789 – The office of which United States position is established ?
Attorney General ✓
Secretary of War ✓
Secretary of Foreign Affairs ✓
Postmaster General ✓
5. 1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates that are central to the faith of which religious organisation ?
Church of Scientology ✓
Church of God in Christ ✓
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ✓
Jehovah's Witnesses ✓
6. 1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the which body of water ?
Gulf of Finland ✓
North Sea ✓
Bay of Biscay ✓
Sea of Japan ✓
7. 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses which ruler as the longest reigning monarch in British history ?
King Henry VIII ✓
King George III ✓
King Charles I ✓
King John ✓
8. 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain, opens in which city ?
Chester ✓
London ✓
Aberdeen ✓
Brighton ✓
9. 1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in which state before spreading across the United States ?
Pennsylvania ✓
Maryland ✓
Vermont ✓
Michigan ✓
10. 1948 – As part of the Berlin Airlift, Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting what to children ?
Comic Books ✓
Candy ✓
Toys ✓
Clothes ✓
11. 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate which U.S. President, but is foiled by the Secret Service ?
Richard Nixon ✓
Lyndon B. Johnson ✓
Gerald Ford ✓
Jimmy Carter ✓
12. 1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands in which ocean ?
Indian ✓
North Atlantic ✓
South Pacific ✓
Arctic ✓
13. 1980 – Iraq invades which country ?
Kuwait ✓
Saudi Arabia ✓
Syria ✓
Iran ✓
14. 1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history, near which city ?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana ✓
Mobile, Alabama ✓
Natchez, Mississippi ✓
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ✓
15. Today is known as what day in the United States ?
International Mixed Berries Muffin Day ✓
National Butterscotch Pudding Day ✓
National Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day ✓
National Double Cheeseburger Day ✓
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