On This Day (December 20th) Multiple Choice

1. 1334 – Cistercian monk Jacques Fournier is elected as which Pope ?

2. 1832 – "HMS Clio" under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of which island group ?

3. 1860 – Which state becomes the first to attempt to secede from the United States ?

4. 1915 – World War I: The last troops from which nation are evacuated from Gallipoli ?

5. 1917 – The first Soviet secret police force, is founded. By what name was it known ?

6. 1946 – Which popular Christmas film is first released in New York City ?

7. 1951 – The EBR-1 becomes the first nuclear breeder reactor to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. In which US state was it ?

8. 1957 – The initial production version of which Boeing airplane makes its first flight ?

9. 1968 – A serial killer known by what name kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California ?

10. 1971 – Which international aid organization is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France ?

11. 1973 – The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated in Madrid by what means ?

12. 1984 – The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying gasoline derails in which of the UK's hilly regions ?

13. 1987 – In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry "Doña Paz" sinks after colliding with the oil tanker "MT Vector" in the Tablas Strait in which country ?

14. 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of which bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland ?

15. 2007 – The "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" by which artist is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art ?