On This Day (November 10th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of which empire ?	Byzantine Empire	80%
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked. Where did it eventually land ?	Havana, Cuba	80%
1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes which country killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 ?	Romania	80%
1983 – Bill Gates introduces which version of Windows ?	1.0	60%
2008 – NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost over five months after landing on which planet?	Mars	60%
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts which childrens TV program ?	Sesame Street	60%
1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in which country ?	United States	60%
2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in which body of water ?	Yellow Sea	60%
1847 – The passenger ship "Stephen Whitney" is wrecked in thick fog off the coast of Ireland. The disaster results in the construction of which lighthouse ?	Fastnet Rock	40%
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior. Which singer songwriter wrote a song about the event ?	Gordon Lightfoot	40%
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at the Tun Tavern in which city ?	Philadelphia	40%
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in which city ?	Colombo	20%
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone near which African lake ?	Lake Tanganyika	20%
1898 – Beginning of the insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. In which city ?	Wilmington, North Carolina	20%
1202 – Despite letters from the Pope forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara. Zara is now known by what name ?	Zadar	20%

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