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On This Day (August 1st) Multiple Choice - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 13 times
- The average score is 5 of 15
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1960 – Dahomey declares independence from France. The country is renamed as what ? | Benin | 60%
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| 607 – Ono no Imoko, Japanese politician, is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in which country ? | China | 60%
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| 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters which city, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic ? | Alexandria | 50%
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| 1960 – Which city is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan ? | Islamabad | 50%
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| 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers which gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele ? | Oxygen | 40%
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| 1914 – The German Empire declares war on which other Empire at the opening of World War I ? | Russian | 40%
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| 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video. What was it ? | "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles | 40%
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| 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by which former Beatle, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City ? | George Harrison | 30%
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| 1469 – Louis XI of France founds a chivalric order in Amboise, named after which saint ? | Order of Saint Michael | 30%
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| 1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in which US city ? | Philadelphia | 30%
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| 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. Which city lost out to Berlin in the race to hold the games ? | Barcelona | 10%
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| 1893 – Henry Perky patents which food product ? | Shredded Wheat | 10%
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| 1965 – Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in which year ? | 2003 | 0%
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| 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in which South American city ? | Asuncion, Paraguay | 0%
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| 1943 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy what ? | Romanian oil fields | 0%
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