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On This Day (December 15th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 15th?
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Last updated: December 15, 2020
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1. 1167 – Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to which city to prevent a rebellion ?
Messina
Palermo
Agrigento
Catania
2. 1651 – Castle Cornet, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders. It is on which island ?
Jersey
Isle of Man
Guernsey
Tresco
3. 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine kills 687 on which Japanese island ?
Honshu
Kyushu
Hokkaido
Shikoku
4. 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale of what ?
Tobacco
Slaves
Firearms
Alcohol
5. 1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in which US city ?
Chicago
Atlanta
New Orleans
Nashville
6. 1944 – World War II: a single-engine Norseman aeroplane carrying US Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over which body of water ?
English Channel
Gulf of Mexico
Aegean Sea
Persian Gulf
7. 1949 – Don Johnson, American actor is born. As well as Miami Vice he starred in which US TV crime drama series ?
Kojak
Nash Bridges
NCIS
Bones
8. 1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate which person ?
Frank Sinatra
Martin Luther King
John F. Kennedy
Audrey Hepburn
9. 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near which Italian city, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10 ?
Milan
Naples
Turin
Bologna
10. 1981 – A suicide car bombing targeting the embassy of which nation in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people ?
Iraq
United States
Soviet Union
South Africa
11. 2000 – The third reactor at which nuclear power plant is shut down ?
Fukushima, Japan
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Sellafield, UK
Indian Point, USA
12. 2001 – Which famous attraction reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it ?
Taj Mahal
Machu Picchu
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Stonehenge
13. 2010 – A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of which island killing 48 people ?
Malta
Christmas Island
Jersey
Key West
14. 2019 – Chinese Television pulls an English Premier League match from its schedule after a player criticized China's re-education camps. Which teams were playing ?
Manchester United and Liverpool
Chelsea and Sunderland
Arsenal and Manchester City
Leicester City and Everton
15. Today is celebrated as Homecoming Day on which of the Channel Islands ?
Alderney
Sark
Guernsey
Jersey
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4 Comments
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 53
Dec 15, 2020
2000- Al Gore concedes the election. (I understand that everything can't be included.)
toowise
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Level 81
Dec 15, 2020
If I had to include everything there would be 100's of questions as you obviously know. I also try to spread the questions around the world rather than being too USAcentric of UKcentric...Doesnt always work if I'm honest but I try !
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 53
Dec 15, 2020
In my opinion, jetpunk as a whole is too Cyprus and Palestine Centric!
toowise
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Level 81
Dec 16, 2020
And don't even mention San Marino, cant do a quiz without that being an answer.🤣🤣
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