On This Day (July 19th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first of which sporting event ? Tour de France
71%
1976 – Sagarmatha National Park is created in which country ? Nepal
57%
1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of which US river to England ? Ohio
57%
AD 64 – The Great Fire of _____ causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of which city ? Rome
57%
1545 – The Tudor warship "Mary Rose" sinks off Portsmouth; in which year is the wreck salvaged ? 1982
43%
1977 – The world's first GPS signal was transmitted from Satellite NTS-2 and received at a facility in which city ? Cedar Rapids, USA
43%
1952 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in which city ? Helsinki
43%
1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after how many days on the throne ? Nine
43%
1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude on X-15 Flight 90. What height in kilometres did he achieve ? 106
29%
1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor is born. He is best known as the inventor of which kitchen appliance ? Microwave Oven
29%
1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort in which city ? Palermo, Italy
29%
1900 – The first line of which city's subway system opens for operation ? Paris
29%
1940 – World War II: Army Order 112 forms which section of the British Army ? Intelligence Corps
14%
1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into which country ? North Vietnam
14%
1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill. What was the name of the other ship ? Aegean Captain
0%
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