On This Day (January 23rd) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in which Chinese city, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China ? Beijing
75%
1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by the first recorded instance of which method ? Firearm
75%
1719 – Which Principality still in existance today was created within the Holy Roman Empire ? Liechtenstein
75%
1967 – Which English town is founded by an Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people ? Milton Keynes
75%
January 23rd is "Bounty Day" on which remote island ? Pitcairn Island
75%
2005 – Johnny Carson, American talk show host, television personality, and producer dies in which U.S. city ? Los Angeles, California
50%
1960 - A Bathysphere, crewed by Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, reaches the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It was named after which Italian city ? Trieste
50%
1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves which South American country ? Venezuela
50%
1951 – Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, American captain and pilot, famous for landing his airplane on the Hudson River, was born in which Texan city ? Denison
25%
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the United States' first woman to practice which profession ? Doctor
25%
1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to what toy to the Wham-O toy company ? Frisbee
25%
1963 – Which African country's War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite ? Guinea-Bissau
25%
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the death toll of which may have been as high as 830,000, hits which province in China ? Shaanxi
25%
1846 – Slavery is abolished in which African country ? Tunisia
25%
1983 - A radioactive Russian satellite falls into which Ocean ? Indian
0%
2018 - The China - United States Trade War begins when President Trump places tariffs on Chinese made solar panels and which other commodity? Washing Machines
0%
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