On This Day (November 14th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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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 ? 72
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1940 – World War II: In England, which city is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers almost completely destroying it's cathedral ? Coventry
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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 ? Iran
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1851 – Which novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA ? Moby Dick
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1948 – Which member of the British Royal Family is born on this day ? Prince Charles
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1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed union movement, is released after eleven months of internment. What was the movement called ? Solidarity
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1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, at which venue ? Westminster Abbey
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1886 – Friedrich Soennecken first developed which office tool ? Hole Puncher
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1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for the world's first what ? Laser
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1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in which US state ? Louisiana
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1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around which planet ? Mars
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1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart is published by which magazine ? New Musical Express
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1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of which river ? Nile
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1991 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to which city after thirteen years of exile ? Phnom Penh
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2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in which city ? Washington D.C.
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