On This Day (November 12th) Multiple Choice

1. 1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, playing in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. How much was he paid ?

2. 1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between which country and the British Raj ?

3. 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on which area of Antarctica ?

4. 1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ?

5. 1944 – The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, off the coast of which country ?

6. 1956 – Morocco, Sudan and which other African country join the United Nations ?

7. 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in which US national park ?

8. 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy what with explosives ?

9. 1977 – Which country conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in a group of 29 tests?

10. 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to which planet ?

11. 1981 – Mission STS-2 marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. The mission utilized which Space Shuttle ?

12. 1990 – Who publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web ?

13. 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near which city ?

14. 2003 – Which city's Transrapid train system sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour for unmodified commercial railway systems ?

15. Which specific food is celebrated today in the USA ?