On This Day (November 22nd) Multiple Choice

1. 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. What was the name of the Frankish king ?

2. 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of which modern day country ?

3. 1718 – The Royal Navy attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach off the coast of North Carolina. By what name was Teach better known ?

4. 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched. On what river was she built ?

5. 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with which city ?

6. 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek meet in which city to discuss ways to defeat Japan ?

7. 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from which nation ?

8. 1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in which location ?

9. 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald in which city ?

10. 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in which mountainous region ?

11. 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular supersonic Concorde service from London to which city ?

12. 1995 – Which movie is released as the first feature-length film created by using only computer-generated imagery ?

13. 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of which contest ?

14. 2003 – Shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, a cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land. Which company operated the plane ?

15. 2003 – England defeats which nation in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament ?