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On This Day (December 5th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 5th?
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1. 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in which country ?
France
Germany
Hungary
Russia
2. 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on which island ?
Hispaniola
Guadeloupe
Cuba
Grand Cayman
3. 1766 – Which London auction house holds his first sale ?
Sotheby's
Bonhams
Christie's
Roseberys
4. 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of what to Cambridge, Massachusetts ?
Gold
Food
Slaves
Weapons
5. 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against which nation ?
Portugal
United Kingdom
Spain
Argentina
6. 1931 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in which city was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin ?
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Samarkand
Kiev
7. 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds which non-profit organisation in New York City ?
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
National Council of Negro Women
Travelers Aid Society of New York
American Jewish Historical Society
8. 1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in an operation named after which weapon ?
Slingshot
Longbow
Catapult
Crossbow
9. 1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for how long ?
Four days
One week
Two days
Nine days
10. 1958 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of which motorway ?
M1
M5
M6
M9
11. 1983 – The dissolution of the Military Junta takes place in which South American country ?
Venezuela
Argentina
Paraguay
Peru
12. 1991 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of which former Soviet republic ?
Ukraine
Kyrgyzstan
Belarus
Uzbekistan
13. 2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government of which island nation ?
Solomon Islands
Trinidad and Tobago
Fiji
Maldives
14. 2007 – Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills eight people, including himself, at a department store in which US city ?
Boise, Idaho
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Amarillo, Texas
Omaha, Nebraska
15. 2017 – The International Olympic Committee bans which country from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
Russia
China
North Korea
United States
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Dec 5, 2020
I've learnt that today is also the anniversary of three separate shipwrecks that all took place in the Menai Strait; in 1664, 1785, and 1820. In each case there was only one survivor, and supposedly each survivor shared the same name of Hugh Williams! :O
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Dec 5, 2020
Wow, what a coincidence...Although I know the Menai Straits are a dangerous stretch of water, I used to go canoeing there in my youth many moons ago !
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