On This Day (April 7th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells for the first time an item he had invented the previous year, what was it ? Friction Match
56%
1946 – Which country's independence from France is officially recognised ? Syria
56%
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be have which honour ? Depicted on US postage stamp
44%
1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party in the UK after being arrested on what charge ? Faking his own Death
44%
1949 – Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards, was opened on Broadway ? South Pacific
33%
1989 – Soviet submarine "Komsomolets" sinks, killing 42 sailors, in which sea? Barents Sea
22%
1968 – Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at which circuit ? Hockenheim
22%
1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion", at St. Nicholas Church, in which city ? Leipzig
22%
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the which river ? Missouri
22%
1906 – Which volcano erupts and devastates the nearby city ? Mount Vesuvius
22%
1964 – What kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio ? Bulldozer
11%
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and which other country ? Spain
11%
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over what product ? Bananas
0%
2009 – Mass protests begin across which country under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent ? Moldova
0%
1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor is born in which city ? Wellington
0%
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