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

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Question	Answer	% Correct
1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from which country ?	France	89%
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed as what ?	Purple Heart	78%
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act at which place ?	World Trade Centre towers, New York	78%
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York to where ?	San Francisco	67%
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war in which island group ?	Solomon Islands	56%
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and which other city ?	Buffalo, New York	44%
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. It is better known by what name ?	Harvard Mark I	44%
936 – Coronation of which king of Germany ?	King Otto I "The Great"	44%
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in the west of which state ?	Pennsylvania	44%
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after how many years of publication ?	128	33%
1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim across which body of water ?	Bering Strait	33%
1786 – The first federal what is created by the United States ?	Indian Reservation	33%
1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is known as the lead singer of which rock band ?	Iron Maiden	33%
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's raft the "Kon-Tiki", hits the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. What was it made of ?	Balsa Wood	22%
1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and which other team ?	Scotch College	11%

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