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On This Day (August 5th) Multiple Choice - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 9 times
- The average score is 4 of 15
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 2010 – The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground for 69 days in which country ? | Chile | 57%
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| 1861 – The United States Army abolishes what means of discipline ? | Flogging | 57%
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| 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now where ? | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | 57%
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| 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in which place ? | Westminster Abbey | 57%
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| 1981 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking workers who ignored his order for them to return to work. What were their occupations ? | Air Traffic Controllers | 43%
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| 1914 – The first electric traffic light is installed in which US city ? | Cleveland, Ohio | 29%
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| 1620 – The Mayflower departs from which English city, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America ? | Southampton | 29%
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| 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until which year ? | 1990 | 14%
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| 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to teenagers by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on which TV network ? | ABC | 14%
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| 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near which city and transported to London ? | Glasgow | 14%
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| 1874 – Which country launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom ? | Japan | 14%
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| 1888 – Bertha Benz drives between which two German cities and back in the first long distance automobile trip ? | Mannheim to Pforzheim | 14%
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| 1944 – World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra in which Australian state ? | New South Wales | 14%
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| 1816 – The British Admiralty dismisses the invention of the electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the what means of communication ? | Semaphore | 14%
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| 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control disguised as what ? | Local inhabitants | 0%
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