On This Day (May 18th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1980 – Which volcano erupts killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage ? Mount St. Helens, USA
100%
332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of what to the citizens in Constantinople ? Food
83%
1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to achieve what feat ? Break the Sound Barrier
50%
1990 – A modified train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph) in which country ? France
50%
2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making which country secular ? Nepal
50%
1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now where ? Venezuela
50%
1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making what activity illegal ? Slavery
33%
1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. In which two modern day countries was Antioch ? Turkey and Syria
33%
2009 – The LTTE (Tamil Tigers) are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending how many years of fighting between the two sides ? 26
17%
1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in which Middle Eastern city ? Damascus, Syria
17%
1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Canada, after leaving the United States. By what name is Parrtown known today ? Saint John, New Brunswick
17%
1974 – India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so, in a project named what ? Smiling Buddha
17%
Today is recognised as what day internationally ? World AIDS Vaccine Day
17%
1896 – A mass panic during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people on Khodynka Field in which city ? Moscow
0%
1949 – Rick Wakeman, English keyboardist and songwriter, is born. With which "Prog Rock" band is he most known ? Yes
0%
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