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On This Day (September 23rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 23rd ?
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1. 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle that which weaponry is used ?
Crossbows ✓
Gunpowder Artillery ✓
Grappling Irons ✓
Underwater Mines ✓
2. 1459 – The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses. In which English county is Blore Heath ?
Staffordshire ✓
Shropshire ✓
Cheshire ✓
Derbyshire ✓
3. 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a cargo of over 100,000 pounds of which commodity, is lost at sea off Land's End.
Whisky ✓
Bananas ✓
Gold ✓
Coal ✓
4. 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to which city after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States ?
Washington ✓
St. Louis ✓
Boston ✓
Charlotte ✓
5. 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in which city ?
Chicago ✓
Boston ✓
Baltimore ✓
New York ✓
6. 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of which planet ?
Neptune ✓
Jupiter ✓
Saturn ✓
Uranus ✓
7. 1889 – Which Japanese company is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda ?
Yamaha ✓
Canon ✓
Nintendo ✓
Toshiba ✓
8. 1905 – Sweden and which nation sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries ?
Finland ✓
Norway ✓
Denmark ✓
Germany ✓
9. 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean. He took off from which French city ?
St. Raphael ✓
Marseille ✓
Nice ✓
Montpellier ✓
10. 1932 – The unification of which Asian country is completed ?
Vietnam ✓
Saudi Arabia ✓
Korea ✓
Papua New Guinea ✓
11. 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in which city ?
London, UK ✓
Vancouver, Canada ✓
Melbourne, Australia ✓
New York, USA ✓
12. 1983 – Which island country joins the United Nations ?
St. Vincent and the Grenadines ✓
Vanuatu ✓
St. Kitts and Nevis ✓
Maldives ✓
13. 2002 – The first public version of which web browser is released ?
Netscape ✓
Mozilla Firefox ✓
Opera ✓
Safari ✓
14. 2008 – Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide in which European country ?
Finland ✓
Hungary ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Greece ✓
15. 2019 – Which British travel company declares bankruptcy, leaving employees without jobs and 600,000 customers stranded abroad ?
Hays Travel ✓
Eurocamp ✓
Thomas Cook ✓
James Villa Holidays ✓
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