On This Day (November 14th) Multiple Choice

1. 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of which river ?

2. 1851 – Which novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA ?

3. 1886 – Friedrich Soennecken first developed which office tool ?

4. 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in how many days ?

5. 1940 – World War II: In England, which city is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers almost completely destroying it's cathedral ?

6. 1948 – Which member of the British Royal Family is born on this day ?

7. 1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart is published by which magazine ?

8. 1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in which US state ?

9. 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for the world's first what ?

10. 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around which planet ?

11. 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, at which venue ?

12. 1979 – US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all assets in the United States of which country in response to a hostage crisis ?

13. 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed union movement, is released after eleven months of internment. What was the movement called ?

14. 1991 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to which city after thirteen years of exile ?

15. 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in which city ?