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On This Day (May 25th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 25th ?
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Last updated: May 25, 2020
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1. 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of which Comet ?
Comet Hale-Bopp
Halley's Comet
Encke’s Comet
Comet Hyakutake
2. 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes which Spanish city back from the Moors ?
Toledo
Salamanca
Cadiz
A Coruna
3. 1660 – Which monarch lands at Dover to begin the Restoration of the British monarchy ?
Anne
James II
Charles II
William III
4. 1787 – After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of how many states is secured ?
Twelve
Seven
Three
Fourteen
5. 1878 – Which of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas opens at the Opera Comique in London ?
Mikado
Pirates of Penzance
Iolanthe
H.M.S. Pinafore
6. 1935 – Jesse Owens breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in which city ?
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dayton, Ohio
Rockford, Illinois
Raleigh, North Carolina
7. 1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures which French port ?
Calais
Dunkerque
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Le Havre
8. 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of which university ?
Houston
Stanford
Harvard
CalTech
9. 1961 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress a goal to do what ?
End Racism
Implement a National Health Service
End Communism
Put a Man on the Moon
10. 1977 – Which famous movie is released in theaters?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars
Saturday Night Fever
Rocky
11. 1977 – The Chinese government removes a decade old ban on the works of which person ?
William Skakespeare
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
12. 1985 – Which country is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people ?
Sri Lanka
Malaysia
Bangladesh
Papua New Guinea
13. 1986 – Which major charity event takes place ?
Live Aid
Hands Across America
Race for Life
Farm Aid
14. 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest despite having which disability ?
Only One Leg
Only One Arm
Deafness
Blindness
15. 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of "The Oprah Winfrey Show". The show aired in how many countries worldwide ?
149
98
162
130
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