On This Day (December 29th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside which cathedral by followers of King Henry II ? Canterbury Cathedral
86%
1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands east of the Mississippi River belonging to which native American tribe to the United States ? Cherokee
86%
1997 – Hong Kong begins a cull of which animal in an effort to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain ? Chicken
71%
2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. Where was the language spoken ? Kola Peninsula, Russia
57%
2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, that was negotiated in which year ? 1946
43%
1916 – Which novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house ? A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
43%
1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead in which US state ? Ohio
43%
2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway in Moscow. The M3 highway runs to the border with which country ? Ukraine
43%
2013 – A suicide bomb attack at a railway station in which Russian city kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others ? Volgograd
43%
1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a civil war that had lasted for how long ? 36 years
29%
1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. He was the president of which South American country ? Brazil
29%
1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe fire-bombs which English city killing almost 200 civilians ? London
29%
1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture which city ?. Savannah, Georgia
29%
1851 – The first American YMCA opens in which city ? Boston
14%
1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in which US national park ? Everglades
14%
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