On This Day (November 12th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between which country and the British Raj ? Afghanistan
60%
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy what with explosives ? Beached Sperm Whale
60%
1944 – The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, off the coast of which country ? Norway
60%
1990 – Who publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web ? Tim Berners-Lee
60%
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 ? Yosemite
60%
1981 – Mission STS-2 marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. The mission utilized which Space Shuttle ? Columbia
40%
1977 – Which country conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in a group of 29 tests? France
40%
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on which area of Antarctica ? Ross Ice Shelf
40%
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near which city ? Delhi
20%
1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ? Hot Chocolate
20%
Which specific food is celebrated today in the USA ? National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
20%
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to which planet ? Saturn
20%
2003 – Which city's Transrapid train system sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour for unmodified commercial railway systems ? Shanghai
20%
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 ? $500
0%
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and which other African country join the United Nations ? Tunisia
0%
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