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On This Day (January 17th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 17th ?
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1. 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of which sea ?
North Sea
South China Sea
Adriatic Sea
Red Sea
2. 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish academic, politician and 1st President of Ireland, was born in which Irish county ?
County Roscommon
County Donegal
County Sligo
County Cork
3. 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for which island group?
Aleutian Islands
Virgin Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Cayman Islands
4. 1920 - What is banned in the US on this day ?
Opium production
Tobacco
Alcohol
X rated films
5. 1929 – Which cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip ?
Popeye the Sailor Man
Fred Flintstone
Yosemite Sam
Andy Capp
6. 1938 - Joseph P. Kennedy (father of JFK) becomes the 44th United States Ambassador to which European country ?
Italy
Sweden
United Kingdom
Spain
7. 1945 – The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of which concentration camp as Soviet forces close in ?
Dachau
Bergen-Belsen
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
8. 1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in which US city ?
Detroit
Baltimore
Denver
Boston
9. 1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over which country, killing seven airmen, and dropping four 70-kiloton nuclear bombs ?
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Morocco
10. 1977 – Capital punishment in the United States resumes, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by what means in Utah ?
Electric Chair
Firing Squad
Lethal Injection
Hanging
11. 1996 – Which country applies for membership of the European Union ?
Slovakia
Slovenia
Poland
Czech Republic
12. 1997 - The NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for what reason ?
Financial Misconduct
Kicking Cameraman
Drug Use
Alcohol Abuse
13. 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to what time in response to North Korea's first nuclear test ?
Quarter to Midnight
Eleven Thirty
Five minutes to Midnight
Ten minutes to Midnight
14. 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author dies of renal failure in which city ?
Reykjavik, Iceland
Halifax, NS, Canada
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15. 2014 - 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in which Asian city ?
Bangkok, Thailand
Yangon, Myanmar
Ankara, Turkey
Kabul, Afghanistan
16. 2023 - An avalanche kills 28 people in which region?
Uttarakhand, India
Tibet, China
British Columbia, Canada
Ticino, Switzerland
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