On This Day (May 24th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1883 – Which bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction ? Brooklyn Bridge
75%
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum in which English city ? Oxford
75%
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan for 60 guilders. That 60 guilders would today be worth approximately how much ? $1,000
50%
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in which city, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus ? Jackson, Mississippi
50%
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in which city ? Lugano, Switzerland
50%
1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in which Cathedral ? Uppsala
50%
1844 – Samuel Morse sends a message from the United States Capitol to his assistant in Baltimore to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line. What was the message ? "What hath God wrought"
50%
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to how long in prison ? 240 years
25%
1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as what day ? Aldersgate Day
25%
1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching which region as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine ? California
25%
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters which city, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator") ? Merida, Venezuela
25%
1607 – How many English settlers disembark in Jamestown, to form the first permanent English colony in America ? 100
0%
1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, producer and Nobel Prize laureate is born in which city ? Duluth, Minnesota
0%
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo to Australia, but from where ? London, England
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1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating which other team 2–1 at Crosley Field ? Philadelphia Phillies
0%
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