On This Day (November 29th) Multiple Choice

1. 1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on what is now which country ?

2. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements in what is now which Canadian province ?

3. 1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes which US state ?

4. 1832 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet is born. She is best known for writing which novel ?

5. 1899 – Which team that later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams is founded ?

6. 1902 – Which team defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league ?

7. 1927 – Theodor Geisel marries first wife fellow author and editor Helen Palmer. Theodor is better known by what pen-name ?

8. 1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over where ?

9. 1939 – Meco, American record producer and musician is also born. He is best known for his disco version of which film's theme music ?

10. 1961 – Project Mercury: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of which island ?

11. 1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate what ?

12. 1963 – Which song, recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom ?

13. 1972 – Which company releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game ?

14. 1987 – Agents from which country plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew ?

15. Today is celebrated in the USA by what safety message ?