On This Day (November 25th) Multiple Choice

1. 1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in which sea, devastates the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places ?

2. 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave which city three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris ?

3. 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become which King ?

4. 1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army at Negomano on the border of which two modern-day countries ?

5. 1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II off the coast of which country ?

6. 1947 – The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. For what reason ?

7. 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap, the longest continuously-running play in history, opens at which theatre in London ?

8. 1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese videogame designer is born. He is best known as the creator of which game series ?

9. 1973 – Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis in which country ?

10. 1975 – Suriname gains independence from which nation ?

11. 1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Cardinal Ratzinger "Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith". He would become which Pope ?

12. 1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record which song in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia ?

13. 1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from which date ?

14. 1999 – A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating off the Florida coast on what type of inflatable ?

15. Which dessert is celebrated in the US on this day ?